Extreme University Projects

Hint: Collaborative design of products that matter.

Overview

• Collaborative design: all universities collaborate, not compete
• Hydrogen car is broken into many modules - each is developed open source from engine to body to controller
• Hundreds of teams collaborate, and start an OSE Extreme U branch. About a dozen branches collaborate on each module.
• Modular breakdown allows for prototyping with modest budgets
• Production machines to build parts are open-sourced as well
• Annual Extreme Build at OSE headquarters brings build together for unprecedented collaboration
• We reinvent collaboration and reinvent the economic process

Scope

Tech

• Solar hydrogen car with solar only option
• OS electric motor/generator
• OS hydrogen engine
• OS rubber tires, 3D printed
• WAAM frame option
• Open source screw machine
• Open source forge for some parts - press + induction furnace
• Open source heat treating - steering parts, etc
• Open source frame - base like Tesla and Solar Challenge - large and flat
• Generator-only option
• Electrolysis
• Gas Compression
• Open source compression vessels
• Hydrogen only for safety
• Metal Hydride storage for safety
• AI/CV model for slow solar operation
• AI/CV for driverless vehicles
• Open source motor controller with feedback (Hall effect etc)
• VESC - sensorless mode
• Steady state sensorless generator (for simplicity)
• Charge control -
• Small, high discharge bat pack for buffer
• Open Source Battery Pack

Business

• Involve enterprise students
• Immersion education package - STEAM with a purpose
• Electric motor design course
• Engine design course
• Electric hybrid car - today - running on a 4 kW generator
• PV car - running only on solar PV (with small bat bank buffer, and human power gen (charges bat bank buffer), and emergency generator
• Book - on collaboration and how to get involved

Financial

• Chapters - incorporate as a student group, $500 event fee for April 22, 2022.

Open Source Hydrogen Car

We are gathering collaborators for a Solar Hydrogen Electric Vehicle Challenge: Scope:

1. Lightweight electric vehicle running on compressed hydrogen combustion - a hybrid with hydrogen Power Cube
2. Involves development of open source hydrogen engine
3. $100k award, 1 year from launch. 2 year project.
4. Solar hydrogen production - stationary plant, phase 2. 2 year project
5. Onboard solar hydrogen generation - phase 3. 2 year project.
6. Proof of concept design - not an optimized design - initially
7. Focus on Design for Manufacturing - ease of fabrication in commmunity-based microfactories that is more efficient than mass production and allows for circular, open source economies

Copy & R&D

1. Show that hydrogen internal combustion (IC) cars exist
2. Show the advantages of hydrogen IC cars over regular cars
3. Show advantages of hydgrogen over batterries
4. Address advantages of hydrogen over gasoline/oil economy - decentralized, solar production
5. Address the disadvantages of hydrogen IC vs fuel cells
   1. Address zero pollution by onboard oxygen
   2. Address efficiency by distributed production - if you count full cycle stewardship, distributed hydrogen makes sense compared to oil wars
6. Address safety of hydrogen vs gasoline

First Prototype - 3D Printed Hydrogen Car

1. Open source IC engine with atmospheric oxygen
2. Hydrogen storage container
3. Safety system - oxygen detector
4. Open source electric generator
5. Open source electric motor
6. 3D printed car - carbon fiber filament
7. Collaborative project - all groups collaborate
8. $15k budget for each team - find corporate sponsors, defined as future of mobility
9. All components are open source - fabricated, machined, open source CNC screw machine, rubber printed, etc
10. Project includes developing production tools for fabrication
11. Designed for distributed production.

Potential Advisors

• Hugo Spowers
• Mark Richardson

Links

• Riversimple - hydrogen car
• Open Source Electric Motor Analysis of Industry Standards
• Hydrogen vs Battery Cars
• Similar brand - Extreme You