Civilization Builder Crash Course Series

Civ Builder Crash Course Equipment

• Show point by point the industrial machines and budgets. Ex. industrial filamenter or skid steer - $25k
• Show their production rate - about $5k/day
• Show reverse engineering path, detailing the team members, skills, and assets required for rapid learning at team scale
• Generate CAD part libraries, all resverse engineered, by taking the machine apart. While taking apart, generate BOMs and vBOMs.
• A whole remote collaborator audience (100s of people) contribute Prompt Engineering with AI, vBOMs, spreadsheets, etc of Dev Template
• Select for machines that can be taken apart - or ones with detailed CAD or design drawings. See if we can get CAD files for machines from source, or as much tech data as possible.
• Reverse engineer the rest
• Use full mechatronics design suite linux distro
• Recruit talent - such as a few key SMEs well-versed in specialized aspects
• Reverse the rest through crowd supply in the workshop - about 100 participanta for 6 weeks. The shorter the better, thus the more participants the better.
  • 100 participants with a dozen or so pros can do the trick - about 120 peep total including funders
  • Get pilot sponsored by a foundation
  • Best candidate at present may be a remote control RTK GPS skid steer, 72 hp, about $10B market, or 10,000 ROI on a $1M investment

Civilization Builder Crash Course Series

Minus the Deep Generalist in principle, as this is all Tech Integration.

Help me define a program where we collabrate with key open source stakeholders to execute on a build of an open source machine prototype, such as an open source machining center with linux cnc controller, designed from scratch. Assume that we can all use open source software, hardware, and collaborative literacy. Since this doesn't exist, we provide boot camp in a Rapid Learning Facility and Design Guides - where kitted rapid learning lessons allow you to learn how to make steel from scrap, design electronics in kicad, and build with torch, cnc torch table, welder, 3d printer. You learn basic physics and a suite of mechatronic design software in a packaged linux distribution. You learn prompt engineering, mechanical and thermal design using FEA, and programming in python. You learn 30 power tools, how to make plastic filament, how to make cement using a lime kiln, and collaborative literacy of swarm builds where you design collaboratively using shared cloud editable realtime docs. You also learn power electronics through basic arduino experiments using a construction set for power electronics, and you learn computer vision exercises, and how to network between devices wirelessly. You learn hydraulics by building a Power Cube in 1 hour, and build a 3D printer in 2 hours, and learn how to install operating systems and servers on single board computers. You top this off with graphic design using an open source library of icons, and video editing for reporting, and publishing of video workflows, and design of brand assets for the project. You learn how to select BOMs across construction, metal working, precision machining, hydraulics, mechanics, and other mechatronics including bearings, shafts, stock steel, plastic parts, controllers, motors, and 3D printing + baking in clay to make fired insulators. This is a 2 week crash course, where you apply these skills to building a working tractor or other mobility/utility machine with 3D printed rubber wheels or tracks. You learn CNC machine use starting from FreeCAD design to CAM files to actual milling or cnc torching. With these skills, you collaborate on a month-long development project to design a new Global Village Construction Set machine. What I described above is a crash course - from which we can begin as a team of about 100 people to build an ambitious prototype close to product release level - at least to a high functional level that can be finished by the next cohort or extended stay of some key members - called the Finishing Crew. This is a program that OSE is developing, using wikis, editable docs, etc - for 100 person, 6 week crash courses on Open Source Civilization. Help me design a Rapid Learning Facility that enables me to teach all those key skills - through the most effective, hands-on kits, with a full open source stack of software and hardware.

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RLF Design

Learn everything about everything in design and build of mechatronic devices. Invest in high power equipment for production, including starting from local or recycled materials so that value generation is robust, and that this microfactory constitutes a circular economy ecosystem - which can actually improve over time. Ie, new machines can evolve from it, and Recursion can happen.

CAD

• FreeCAD + fab drawings + FEA + OpenFoam
• Sweet Home 3D part library for common design
• Blender for physics, landscape, etc.
• KiCad
• Sweet Home
• Inkscape for site drawings
• Full mechatronics suite on OSE Linux
• Select game engine for walk-through or rendering?

House

• Tool - learn 20 power tools and 40 different blades and functions in 1 hour. 20 different blade types and their function.Turn on, understand kickback, understand forces, understand capacity. List these for all the tools. Turn-on and body awareness.
• Connect PEX into sharkbites. Cut, chamfer, and insert. Take out.
• PVC fittings - glue. Then take apart with heat gun.
• Cut using a cordless router
• Cut using a cutoff saw.
• Cut and flare fittings of copper tube in 1/4 to 3/4" size.

Mechanical Design

• Frames, shafts, bearings. Use Universal Prototyping Cube consisting of an 3x3x3 foot box beam tubing assembly. Mount plates and heavy shafts. 3" and 2" shafts. Use mount plates to make wheels or a lathe. Or pivot. Done.
• Make a Power Cube.
• Make an engine. Take a block.

3D Printing

• Cast a block - 1 hr - heat scrap and pour into a 3D printed mold.
• 3D print a lost PLA form.
• Shred plastic in a shredder.
• Make filament using a filament maker.
• Weld 2 pieces of steel, and torch them apart by hand.

Metal Fab

• Torch, welder, grinder, fat grinder
• Oxyfuel, oxydiesel, oxyhydrogen options
• CNC torch table