STEAM Camp Curriculum Planning

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General Messaging

The OSE Steam Camp is a 9 day immersion that introduces students to a breadth of practical skills on their journey to creating the world around them. Students learn to design and build common objects by building a working 3D Printer that can also be used for etching circuits. Students learn an entire design-build workflow that enables them to design and buid common goods such as a cordless drill, a Raspberry Pi tablet, and an aerial drone. By combining advanced modern technology and open source design workflows - we unleash the power of creativity so people can start creating the world around them. This is critical in creating the circular economy, where local communities can begin to build the common objects that they use every day.

This is an invitation and challenge to you: will you change your local community to local production, closed loop material cycles, and open source design that leads to transparency and abundance? It is up to all of us to develop this together - and the OSE STEAM Camp is your chance to begin on this journey. We believe that the way to a better world starts with communities recapturing the possibilities of productivity on a small scale - fueled by open source design and open source microfactories.

In the STEAM Camp - you will build upon existing open source project to make a real product - which will then be improved in future STEAM Camps. You can start making ans selling these products, as we will teach you the basic workflow of starting an open source hardware enterprise.

High Level Vision View

Practical producer training for the concerned citizen, leading to Distributed Market Substitution of common goods, and thereby the circular economy and lifetime design.

Overview Schedule Narrative

We learn basic design and prototyping skills with hands-on immersion - to enable us to get involved meaningfully in open source product development.

Direct relation to OSPD comes from learning a broad toolset that covers 4 Construction Set components (Universal Axis motion system, Universal Controller for automation, open source electric motor for power, and battery pack for energy) and 3 toolsets (3D printing, circuit making, milling). From this, we have 80% of the goods on Amazon, and direct link to enterprise development.

Summary:

  1. Day 1: 3D Printer - basic printer build using the Universal Axis and Universal Controller.
  2. Day 2: Circuit Maker - another snap-on toolhead for the Universal Axis, converting 3D printer to circuit making machine that enables us to build our own microcontroller as easy as 1, 2, 3.
  3. Day 3: Making a Brushless Electric Motor - using 3D Printer and Circuit Maker. Now we have motors for 3d printers, drones, and appliances.
  4. Day 4: Battery Packs - we need renewable power! We build stackable battery packs for all the above devices - which our stackable for making our own cordless welder.
  5. Day 5-9 - Project Days, with Day 9 being the Product Demo and Enterprise Day.

You take home the 3D Printer, Circuit Plotter, Electric Motor, and Battery Pack - and you are ready to prototype 80% of the things you find on Amazon to transform the economy to lifetime design and financial freedom. Connect lifetime design to financial freedom

Curriculum Development Model

  1. Run events in 6 location simultaneously as part of collaborative effort.
  2. 5 instructors collaborate on making the project better: strengths of each are (1) 3D printing; (2) Arduino, KiCad, and electronics; (3) electric motors; (4) power electronics and battery packs; (5) CNC machines; (6) smartphone apps/programming. Or similar.
  3. Requirement for Instructor: they have built a finished product that works to a reasonable degree that is worth replicating for building into a working product along the lines of continuous open source product development.
  4. We coordinate and co-develop the curriculum
  5. Instructors have the benefit of learning from others, so we select with growth-mindset instructors
  6. We promote open source collaboration to remove scarcity mindsets from all participants
  7. Prep required: (1) each instructor prepares curriculum for 1 module by modular breakdown; (2) all instructors combine curriculum. (3) OSE provides most of the 4 day curriculum and kits for printer, plotter, etching, battery packs, and electric motor.

Detailed Schedule

Day 1

$200 materials cost.

  1. Intro to OSE and Open Source Product Development
  2. Collaborative Literacy - we can do more by collaborating than competing. Work Log and embeds of social media.
  3. FreeCAD Intro
  4. Universal Axis
  5. Building a 3D printer from the Universal Axis using a simple extruder. 2 Plugs and magnetic attach for simple extruder make this interchangeable with Plotter and Mill

Day 2

$20 materials cost

  1. Building a plotter from the Universal Axis system
  2. Making circuit boards with the Plotter and etching
  3. Basics of KiCad for electronics design. KiCad 101. KiCad 102. KiCad 103.
  4. Making an Arduino Microcontroller board from scratch using a Circuit Plotter and DIY Arduino

Day 3

$40 materials cost

  1. Documentation of the D3D Simple 3D printer - how to use the wiki, Generating WebGL, using Part Libraries, wiki templates for Infobox.
  2. How to Start an Open Source Project
  3. Building a scalable, 3D printed electric motor and Universal Controller-based ESC

Day 4

  1. Making battery packs from 18650 Cells, such as for the Cordless Drill
  2. Collaboration exercise - stacking battery packs to make a welder! 12 people x
  3. Battery packs for cordless drill.
  4. Combining battery packs for more power than ourselves - metaphysical and practical example of Collaboration.
  5. Making an Arduino simple charger
  6. Milling workflow: Building a milling attachment to the Universal Axis - from the 3D printed motor

Day 5-9 - Project Days

There are 3 options:

  1. Raspberry Pi Tablet - make a fully functional computer tablet from a touch screen, a Raspberry Pi, and a 3D printed case printed with your own printer, and a circuit board for the camera and charger. You will also make your own battery pack from the popular 18650 lithium ion cells.
  2. Cordlesss Drill/Vaccuum Robot - Refine the battery pack, made a charger, refine the electric motor, add a geardown and chuck, and there is the world's first open source, practical cordless drill.
  3. Aerial Drone - Most advanced course - use the Raspberry Pi Tablet to fly your drone, using your own battery packs, ESC, and 3D printed parts.

Meta

Business model starts with Extreme Manufacturing - which then reduces the size of other sectors: financial, legal, spiritual, transportation, hospitality, education. The model foundation is XM - ie - Distributed Market Substitution of physical goods - that meet or exceed industry standards. From there, prosperity follows into other sectors. This is the old debate between materialism and idealism. Within the human economy, it seems clear that materialism is the preferred foundation, and idealism is derivative, not source.

The target market is people who are looking for self-determination, with financial independence coming from production.

We can break the product into a 4 day OSE Core Skills training - which can also be turned into an online course. This formalizes the first 4 days and makes this training scalable. Revenue model comes from the services (exams, webinar, learning community) around the STEAM Camps - and products (edu kits).

Day 1 - 8 hours

Note: need to open ends of Motor and Carriage Piece to simplify belt threading.

OSE Intro, Collaboration, FreeCAD, and Universal Axis.

  1. 9-10AM - 1 hr - OSE introduction
  2. 10-10:30 AM People Intros and Learning Goals - 30 min
  3. 10:30 AM How to Start an open source project to change the world - 30 min
  4. Stretch break
  5. 11:15 - 11:45 - OSPD. The OSE open source project infrastructure: work log, wiki, FreeCAD, Google Presentations, Gitlab
  6. Stretch break.
  7. 12-12:30 - Intro to OSE Dev Kit - OSE Linux, FreeCAD 16 and 18, Cura, Arduino IDE, OBS Studio, Kdelive, KiCAD
  8. 12:30-1 - FreeCAD Intro - 1/2 hour to the first Complex Shape
  9. 1-2 - Lunch and Stretch
  10. 2-2:30 PM - Collaboration - Setting up Work Log and Part Libraries. Exporting WebGL 3D graphics - 1/2 hr. Embedding work log entries - FB.
  11. 2:30-3 PM - Intro to KiCAD. Arduino Part Library and designing your own Arduino.
  12. 3-3:30 PM - D3D Simple Build: Theory. OSE 3D Printer Intro - Universal Axis Parts (15 minutes) - building D3D Simple - 15 minutes
  13. Stretch Break
  14. 3:45 - 4:45 - Workshop time: D3D Simple Build from Kit. Universal Axis 1-3 build.
  15. Stretch Break
  16. 5-6 - Universal Controller Build
  17. 6-7 - Screw everything together and first run: Plotter!
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