3D Printer Workshop

Introduction

1. Project Title: 3-D Printer Workshop
2. Time/Date/Start: March 28-30, 2014
3. Location: ?
4. Leader: Rob Kirk
5. Target Audience: 12 students paying $300 each for 3 days of instruction. Can leave with 3-D printer for an added $700.

Measures of Success:

1. Complete workshop DVD published
2. Target audience met or exceeded in number
3. 90% positive reviews
4. Budget was adequate to +/- 10% — no cost over-runs
5. Complete procedure results in timely build of 3D printer with no documentation-related build mistakes

Milestones:

1. Conference Evaluations assessed/improvements for next session made
2. Conference concluded with 12+ clients @ $300 -- gross $3600+. #Conference Evaluations filled out by participants and organizers.
3. 3 days of instruction complete—3-D printer constructed
4. Students arrive—settle in get food and program details Introductions
5. Payment completed and receipted
6. Advertising all media sent out
7. Workshop organizational and revenue model is documented so others can be trained to run the workshop
8. Build instructions complete
9. Curriculum completed/evaluations approved and printed
10. Curriculum draft complete
11. Budget estimate approved by MJ
12. Workshop scheduled, and costs estimated, Presenter approved, Budget estimate in hand
13. Attend 3-Printer Conference
14. Planning for 3-D Workshop/build for March 28

3D Printer Critical Path

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Milestones and Tasks

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• Workshop Design - Jan 10

• Proposed Workshop Date (March 28-30?) and Location; inquiry on venues?
• Planning and milestone timeline based on first event, March 28-30. Draw up a Google Doc with timeline on the bottom axis that includes:
  • Milestones, working backwards from March 28-30
  • Expected duration for completion of milestone
  • For each milestone, tasks required
  • Link to the actual work being done from this Master Index - so we can track product readily from this Google Doc
• 3 day outline of curriculum - hour by hour for 3 days - Google Spreadsheet, Text, or Google Drawing
  • 4 tracks of education as in World Expo Seminar Tracks?
  • How to go from a physical object to a Scan to a 3D print
• Open Source Toolchains - Modeling in Sketchup, and toolchain for generating printing files
  • How to work with FreeCAD and Sketchup files
  • How to download and print files; repositories
  • OpenBeam - would be interesting to collaborate with them (I think it's Sam Putnam)
• Building your own printer (our Main Course)

How to document the build - pictures, video (OpenShot)?, video title screens, etc. Logistics for the event, Signup procedure, payments, etc. Documentation Plan - Teaching audience about OSE Documentation How we will capture documentation for improving future workshops? Plan for realtime documentation during build Division between instructional writing, photos, uploads to Dozuki

• Curriculum Development - Until Feb 15
  • Promotional materials - by Feb 1 to start publicity (2 months lead)
  • Flyer - 1 pager to post electronically on FaceBook
  • Promo Brochure (to go on website) - 2 pages about workshop
  • Promotional video - script - Jan 18
  • Promo video - edit
  • Social Media publicity plan - timeline and venues - Jan 18
  • Instructional Procedure - Feb 1
  • Materials list
  • Dozuki instructional procedure
  • CAD - screenshots
  • Picture
  • Video of assembly
  • Animation video of assembly in Sketchup or FreeCAD
  • Work Flow Design - Feb 7
  • Fabrication diagram - which steps are taken at which time, which in parallel
  • Facility Layout for Production Day
  • Based on number of people - what each person does
  • Financials - Feb 14
  • Costs, budget, accounting
  • Revenue Plan and Breakeven Graph for 3 scenarios - good, expected, and bad for workshop participants
  • Food and venue costs

Links

• Project Review