Anna Sera Lowe

• Open Know-How - https://openknowhow.org/
• Open Know-Where
• Open Source Fabrication Equipment - not there yet
• What is the information required to characterize a piece of equipment?
• Data model - in iteration.
• Open Know-Where - how we characterize equipment - chairing by Anna
• Andrew Lamb from Shuttleworth - funding the Open Know-Where
• Barbal - https://barbal.co/ - software for documenting
• Internet of Prodution Alliance - renamed Makernet Alliance - reasonably active community of people with day jobs
• Some tools exist in the constuction field - for distributed quality control.
• There is Field Sighte - doing an app to allow remote inspection by qualified engineers.
• https://app.fieldsight.org/users/accounts/login/ - DQC for housing
• Centralized production - not scalable at all.
• Pull approach via a business model - blockchain prototype for distributed contracting, with quality control built in. Multiple places producing parts for an order. Approval before the next bit. If you have quality spec-ed out up front - then the theory is - that would drive quality compliance. Were doing it under - FieldReady tried this in Nepal - Daniel Paterson.
• Making supplies near points that are needed.
• Ex for Fieldready - instead of injection molded buckets - tooling can be moved into disaster zones in local injection molding factories. Just got a big grant to do work in Bangladesh, Uganda, etc - using Open Know-Where standard - mapping of local community.
• Tapping into existing manufacturing base already - is more powerful - lathes, welders, injection molding - are more of a priority.
• Also machines that enable business models themselves.
• Small town in Kenya - amazing entrepreneur for brick making machines. $4-5k.
• Blockmaker -
• Kumasi Hive - operated 1.5 years, and then board, and now locally run.
• Business around 3D printer.
• Tech4Trade - closest to filament making. Still struggling with diameter consistency.
• Lots of people can do PLA.