OSE Curricula

Introduction

Aiming...

• to opensource applied knowledge via construction sets
• to transform education to one of practical and entrepreneurial nature
• to connect livelihood to education
• for applied projects
• Bring meaning to abstract concepts
• to bring about the promise of technology to make life easy
• to take care of the environment and attain social justice
• create armies of students working on the GVCS
• to create an information architecture for a comprehensive set of technology
• aiming to create an icon set to facilitate communication, as in Icon Construction Set
• to span from middle school level to PhD
• to create useful knowledge relevant to adults and children
• to make technology appropriate
• to empower everyone in creating their world

Lessons

• Open Source Product Development
• Tractor Construction Set - techniques for building skid steers, tractors, articulated tractors, and heavy machines in general focusig on 1/4" and 1/2" wall 4" square steel Gridbeam.
• Frame Construction Set - using box beam tubing, Gridbeam, OSE Tubing Library, OSE Piping Workbench, 6-face frames, and other techniques for effective frame building of everything from 3d printer to heavy duty machines. Focus on reuse of components.
• Power Electronics Construction Set
• Arduino and Sensors Construction Set - sensors for measurement and acuation. Position, location, distance, GPS, and more - up to electronic control units for engine ignition.
• Measurement Devices Construction Set. Subset of Arduino. Relates to Arduino and Sensors - tachometers, temperature, current, moisture, oxygen, hydrogen sensors, spectrometers, microscopes.
• Universal Axis Construction Set - From 3D printer to heavy duty CNC machining curriculum.
• Geardown Construction Set
• Power Cube Construction Set. Calculations. Hose sizes. Power. Torque. Couplers. Electric, solar, hybrid engines. Hydraulic circuits. Valves. Cooling and heat calculations.
• House Construction Set - how to build structures.
• Heat Exchanger Construction Set
• Electric Motor Construction Set. Relevant to motors, generators, electric cars
• Common Tool Construction Set. 3D printed in plastic, rubber, and metal, metal composite, nuts and bolts structures for common tools, from vices to hammers and everything in between.
• Grinder Construction Set. From light duty to heavy duty shredders for plastic recycling, metal recycling, wood pellets, rubber pellets, and more.
• Solar Vehicle Construction Set. Combines Power Cubes, PV panels, batteries.
• Battery Constructions Set. Includes lithiu, lead acid, and nickel iron batteries, and how to make banks of these from raw components.
• Windmill Construction Set. Electric Motors, Power Electronics, structures are included.
• Hydrogen Construction Set - from production to purification to storage of hydrogen, oxygen, and oxyhydrogen. Applications to torches, fuel compression.
• Piston Construction Set - from water based 3D printed low pressure pistons, to heavy duty metal pistons, to engine pistons, and high pressure pumps and fuel pumps. Spanning gas, diesel, hydrogen, biogas, and steam. Applications to hydraulic valves.
• Solenoid Construction Set - applications from water, hydraulics, to automotive fuel injectors.
• Universal Rotor Construction Set - heavy duty and small rotors, impellers, blades - with applications to pumps, compressors, sawmills, trenchers, turbines, and any rotor. From 3D printing to welding to precision machining.
• CNC Router Contruction Set - from CNC circuit mill to furniture routers, using Electric Motors, hydraulic motors, stepper motors
• Stepper Motor Construction Set - using stepper motors of any size, and designing
• Ultraprecision Construction Set - granite block and grinders for making air bearings and extremely precise parts as relevant to high pressure and high speed applications in semiconductors and the hydrogen economy
• Rock Processing Construction Set - essential to mining and crushing rock for gravel, block, cement, and other applications where rocks are used. Includes infrastructuring for burning rocks to make cement using solar PV.
• Solar Concentrator Construction Set - linear concentrator and variations for generating saturated water for combined heat and power applications and night time energy storage.
• Engine Construction Set - pistons, valves, injections, cranks, and shafts focusing on electronic control with Arduino for modern power.
• Autonomous Vehicle Construction Set - making human assisted aunotonomous vehicles for transport, harvesting, delivery, and other applications.
• Composting Construction Set - generating compost for the soil food web from autonomous balers, wood chips, and other biomass.
• Cellulose Construction Set - From lumber, strawboard, bioplastics, and paper derived from wood and other biomass, and all the growing, harvesting, and processing equipment