Open Source Microfactory Design Sprint

Intro

• Develops a product for opensourcewarehouse.org
• Starts with template on wiki
• Template requires sound design skill
• Embeds kit.com
• Prints the product in online factory
• Workshops with 12+ people are organized
• Code s embeddable for anyone else
• Most of revenue comes from education workshops.
• Printing is paid - cost of 10 cents per day with unheated bed
• Octoprint Online store
• Revenue of $50/day/printer running full time. Cluster of 4 printers yields $200/day production
• For 12 part kits - $600 per 3 days

Collaboration Architecture

• 12 teams of 6
• Hours breakdown
• 4 OSE Fellow guides.
• $10 admission - secures a team with commitment
• Recruit from top design companies, and employee giving programs
• Simple FreeCAD interface in OSE Linux
• Teaching FreeCAD in 1 hour w/simple interface
• Teaching KiCAD using libraries. Can KiCAD be modifies for various construction Sets?
• Google docs
• Graphics - Gimp + Inkscape
• Isometric drawings extraction
• One admin person hired by admission fee to convert to HeroX
• Skill set: editing wiki, going through basic design process of 20 steps
• Going through production/prototyping process - test prints
• Embedding in wiki
• Generating Kit.com
• Embedding print in Octoprint interface after print testing
• About page
• Flyer
• Flyer for schools
• Sign up for a build - email us once there are 12 people
• Flyer for Extreme Design Jam to continue iterations
• HeroX posting with crowd funding for a valuable product
• Dev Log maintenance
• FB live reporting
• 48 people signed up for Sprint is a requirement. Cost is $5 to join broadcast. Goes to organizing cost. Sprint Organizer gets paid. Sprint Organizer is Trained.
• Later iterations - massive multiplayer online game. Where you design the machines. With Arduino simulator and others.
• Unknown - how do you track micro-contributions - perennial question unresolved
• Upon reaching 48 sign ups it happens - otherwise no go.
• Training for Design Sprint Managers
• Training for Design Sprint participants. OSE Linux required.
• Clear collaboration Architecture steps are required, as guided by a skilled person. Time commitment of 8 hours required, for people to both learn and execute. Reward is the learning from the best. Process must be tested.
• Base contract: promise to collaborate. We promise to deliver an economically significant product. Or possibly just its design, followed by a Design Build Jam. 100 people collaborate. Final product is a Workshop Manual, and a teachers' guide. 50 pages each.

Links

• OSE Developers
• OSE Fellows
• HeroX - or other incentive challenge
• Design Sprints
• Design Jam
• Summers of Extreme Design-Build