September 2020 STEAM Camp

Overview

3 weekends. 4-8 hours each day, 6 days total.

Weekend 1: 3D Printer Build

1. Build a 3D Printer Extruder from Scratch. Learn how an extruder works, and how you can redesign it yourself.
2. Design Lesson on Making industrial-grade extruders with 80W heaters for 20 lb/extrusion rates

Hours:

1. Hour 1: 11 AM to Noon: 30 minute OSE Intro - Collaborative Design, This is a real exercise in collaborative design.
2. Hour 2: Noon. Extruder Build Beginning - We all post pictures to a Google Photos Folder or FB, and documenters refine the documentation
3. Heat Bed Build - Build Nichrome heater element, and make a heated bed with it.
4. Universal Axes build

Sat-Sun Sep 19-20, 2020 - 3D Printing and Collaboration

1. 3D Printer Build - D3D Universal v20.07
2. Uploading code, printing, calibrating, slicing, finding files online. Using OSE Linux, included. Principles of large-scale collaboration - OSE Development Protocol overview.

Sat-Sun Sep 26-27, 2020 - Electronics

1. Arduino and Programming - building a basic Arduino from scratch. With Mitch Altman
2. KiCad - basic lesson in designing electronics. Building the Basic Arduino in KiCad and soldering it from scratch on stripboard. [1]

Sat-Sun Oct 3-4, 2020 - FreeCAD and 3D Printing an Electric Motor

1. FreeCAD design - Gaining basic proficiency in designing anythign you dream of. Working with Dirk's Electric Motor and printing it.
2. Electric Motor Design. 3D printing an electic motor - before this weekend so parts are ready and we build it. FreeCAD design exercises - modifying the electric motor. FreeCAD spreadsheets for parametric design.

Sat-Sun Oct 10-11, 2020 - Optional if we get this done in time

1. Plotting with the D3D CNC Plotter - point pictures, line pictures, OSE greeting cards, neat images
2. Vinyl cutting with the D3D Universal - cutting out numbering and lettering and logos in vinyl.