OSE Immersion Program

Application

OSE Fellowship - August 25-September 30, 2018

The OSE Fellows program is a one year, merit-based Fellowship for doing something extraordinary. OSE Fellows start with a 5 week immmersion program, beginning with the 1 week boot camp below - and continuing on to a solid working knowledge of the open source desktop microfactory. The Microfactory consists of the 3D printer, filament maker for producing 3D printing filament from scrap plastic, the CNC Circuit Mill, 3D Scanner (camera + software), and 2.5W laser cutter. Fellows will build and take home all of these tools, such that they gain a capacity to support prototyping, production, and education activities that are part of their work with OSE. Successful completion of the 5 week training qualifies Fellows to continue working with OSE full time - as OSE Fellows. Fellows spend about 25% of their time running public immersion build workshops - and the rest in further research and development. The OSE Fellowship is a full time engagement for 1 year. At the one year mark, Fellows can apply to the Senior OSE Fellowship. OSE Fellows are invited to take, which involves another 5 weeks of immersion training in the larger Open Source Microfactory, which continues the capacity of the Desktop Microfactory to the heavy metal work with the CNC torch table, heavy duty CNC machining, and other tools for heavy machine fabrication. Senior Fellows can continue with training on the Open Building Instititute in 2019:

1. September, 2018 - Desktop Microfactory
2. May 1, 2019 - Full Microfactory. CNC Torch Table and Heavy Duty Machines.
3. September, 2019 - Open Source Construction. CEB Press, Aquaponic Greenhouse, and Seed Eco-Home construction techniques based on the results of the Open Building Institute collaboration

OSE Fellows will receive a stipend based on performance. This should come out to a starting pay of $3k per month, but may be more or less depending on various factors

OSE Fellows will be paired with a business mentor from their own community to help them collaborate with local education, organization, and business organizations.

OSE Boot Camp

A one week immersion, hands-on course where you learn about OSE's collaborative, open source development and extreme manufacturing process, with the open source desktop microfactory as the focus. You will be exposed to the full toolchain of crowd design from idea to build, where both the hardware and software are open source. We will do rapid prototyping using: FreeCAD and part libraries, 3D scanning, 3D printing, CNC circuit milling, laser cutting, and making 3D printing filament from scrap plastic - where all of the associate tools are completely open source. We will teach you how to operate a closed loop materials cycle as we recycle scrap plastic into virgin 3D printing filament. You will learn how to design a 3D printer according to our 3D Printer Design Guide and Construction Set approach using our Universal Axis motion system. We will also cover how the same Universal Axis system can be used to build the CNC Circuit Mill and small laser cutter as derivative machines. We will also cover how you can set up an online, on-demand 3D printing store using a Raspberry Pi-based server for your home microfactory. We will show you how you can get involved with OSE's open source product development effort for household consumer goods that can potentially put an open source dent in the existing $20T household consumer goods market. Finally, you will build your own 3D printer in one day to take home with you. The goal is to equip you with all the skills and open source equipment that enables you to design and build larger and smaller versions of the 3D printer and derivative machines, so you can bring open source production and culture back to your neighborhood. See more details of the Open Source Microfactory Boot Camp

Cost

The cost for the program is