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 small working CNC tools using the OSE Universal Axis robotics construction set - including 3D Printer, circuit maker, and small CNC mill. Students learn an entire design-build workflow that enables them to design and buid common goods such as a robotic vacuum cleaner, a Raspberry Pi tablet, and an aerial drone. By combining advanced modern technology and open source design workflows - we unleash the power of creativity. This is critical in creating the circular economy based on modular, open source design - 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 projects 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. This can be done using an XY plotter - as a PCB Circuit Plotter.
3. Day 3: Making a Brushless Electric Motor - using 3D Printer and Circuit Maker. We couple this to the Universal Axis for circuit making by plotting or milling. Now we have motors for 3d printers, drones, and appliances. Now we can take appliances out of the waste stream.
4. Day 4: Battery Packs - we need renewable power! We build stackable battery packs for all the above devices - which are stackable for making our own cordless welder. On Day 4, we domonstrate how we can stack all our battery packs, and connect them to the Universal Controller that turns the battery packs to a welder. This shows that we can do more together than alone - both physically and metaphorically.
5. Day 5-9 - Project Days, with Day 9 being the Product Demo and Enterprise Day.

Students 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 get so much closer to financial freedom.

Project Days: In the 5 project days, we build a highly functional Raspberry Pi Tablet, an aerial drone that we subsequently upgrade to image recognition and AI, and a vaccuum robot that is eventually upgraded to image recognition and AI. All the projects will evolve continuously in future STEAM Camps, and they are stackable or swarmable - such that the devices can all operate as modular swarms. Examples of Product Swarms:

1. Raspberry Pi Tablet - For example, imagine interconnecting multiple Raspberry Pi Tablets so you can have one master tablet with multiple screens, running multiple applications and thus displacing a more powerful computer? Tablet is used as a controller for both the drones and vacuums.
2. Drone - controlling all drones with one controller? Slaving them to follow one another, and lift a larger load if connected to one another. When slaved to carry a small fueled electric generator, they have extended range to about an hour for practical missions.
3. Vacuum Robot - robots communicate with each other so they don't overlap their paths. Or simply operate as a swarm in a room. Or one robot is used to empty the bags on other robots.

Curriculum Development Model

See STEAM_Camp_Candidates#Curriculum_Development_and_Evolution_Model

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 material production that eliminates artificial scarcity and other structural evils.

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 in the virtual edition may come from the services (exams, webinar, learning community) around the STEAM Camps - and products (edu kits).

Day 1 - OSE Intro and Collaborative Development of Technology That Matters

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

OSE Intro, Collaboration, FreeCAD, and Universal Axis.

• 9 AM OSE Introduction: Collaborative Design for a Transparent and Inclusive Economy of Abundance
  • Review of OSE Workshops FB page for introductions
• 10 How to Start an Open Source Project to change the world with Collaborative Literacy and Open Source Product Development.
  • Incentive Challenges and Extreme Manufacturing.
  • Open source project infrastructure: work log, wiki, FreeCAD, Google Presentations, Gitlab. Roadmap, critical path, repos, taxonomy, versioning, version history.
  • Open Source Boot Camp Universal Axis Tools: 3D printer, circuit plotter, cnc mill.
  • OSE Dev Kit - Universal Axis Tools + OSE Linux, FreeCAD, Cura, Arduino IDE, OBS Studio, Kdelive, KiCAD. FB.
  • Open Source Everything Store - the Open Source Amazon
• 11 FreeCAD. Learning the basic FreeCAD workflow for design in 45 minutes + Test. Embedding 3D WebGL and part library into the Wiki
• 12 Universal Axis, Universal Controller, and Marlin CNC Control
  • Understanding functions of parts
  • Scaling, Modifying, Connecting the Unviersal Axis. Ex D3D Simple 3D Printer, Plotter, Mill.
  • Cura to Marlin - Understanding the software workflow and its modification
• 1-2 - Lunch
• 2-6 PM - 3D Printer Build
  • Build Overview of D3D Simple
  • Universal Axis Build
  • Universal Controller Build - for printer, plotter, cnc mill, welder, battery charger, temperature logger, and motor controller.
  • Simple Extruder Build - build of a simple extruder that anyone can build from 3d printed parts, and off-shelf stock parts by cutting and drilling
  • Wiring build
  • First Run - and 3D Printed Hacksaw

Day 2 - Making Circuits and Electronic Devices

• 9 AM - Reflections and Learnings from yesterday. Background 3D printing of Circuit Plotter Parts.
• 10 - Modular Electronics: Intro to Designing like a Pro with Advanced Modules
  • Brains (controllers) - Arduino and its performance specs to understand its capacities
  • Power Electronics - hands on intro with an Arduino AC Light Dimmer with only a single opto-isolated MOSFET using the Universal Controller
  • Sensors and displays - hands-on Temperature logger with RAMPS LCD by reprogramming the Universal Controller
  • Wiring, Connector Types, and Communications - Wire Ampacity, MTA-100, Ferrules, IDC, D-Sub, Jelly Crimp, Phoenix, Dupont, Ethernet, Wireless RAMPS
• 11 - Designing in KiCad: an Arduino Uno
  • KiCad 101. Circuit making process with KiCad and part libraries.
  • Designing an Arduino around the Atmel 328 chip with an Arduino Uno Part Library on OSE Linux
  • Generating toolpath files for plotting
  • Importing electronics into FreeCAD.
  • Using FlatCam, post-processing, and importing into Lulzbot Cura
• Noon - Building a Circuit Plotter - basic and ecological circuit making at your fingertips
  • How to design a modular, quick-connect XY plotter tool head for the Universal Axis
  • How to etch circuits in an environmentally friendly way
  • Pen holder build
  • Building the quick mount
  • Modifying Marlin Software for a plotter application
• 1 PM - Lunch
• 2 - Plotting and Etching an Arduino Uno: circuit plotting for practical results
  • Making an Arduino Uno microcontroller board from scratch using the Circuit Plotter and DIY Arduino
• 4 - Soldering the Arduino Together
  • Soldering components
  • Programming the arduino with Arduino IDE. Sketch and upload.
  • Test run with Reprapdiscount Full Graphic Smart Controller - Hello World: Open Source Rocks!

Day 3

• 9 AM - Reflections and Learnings from yesterday.
• 10 - Designing Brushless Electric Motors - going brushless for long life
  • Axial flux vs radial flux motors
  • Design of a simple coreless Radial Flux motor
  • Design of a brushless motor controller
• 11 - Electric Motor Build: Building a 50W stackable axial flux pancake motor
  • Coil winding using a winding jig
  • Magnet attachment to cnc cut disks
  • Motor assembly with 3D printed parts
• 1 PM - Lunch
• 2 - Motor Controller Build - using ready circuit boards for a simple control circuit
  • Soldering components and wiring up the system
• 3 - Making a CNC mill from the Electric Motor
  • Mounting the motor and attaching a 2 mm milling bit
  • Making a Quick-attach mount for the Universal Axis.
  • Wiring the motor
• 5 - Using Marlin for CNC Milling with auto bed leveling
  • Mounting a work piece
  • Sample CNC Milling of aluminum

Day 4

• 9 AM - Reflections and Learnings from yesterday.
• 10 - Battery Packs for Just About Everything - using ubiquitous 18650 cells
  • How to design battery packs. Scalable, parametric battery holder in FreeCAD with interconnects.
  • How to design battery chargers for 18650 cells
• 11 - Building a 24V battery pack - from a prepared and 3D printed kit
  • Building Battery Holder
  • Interconnecting batteries
  • Adding a state of charge indicator light
• 1 PM - Lunch
• 2 - Arduino-controlled Battery Charger - we learn how to charge batteries - with a scalable smart charger controlled by the Universal Controller. We do a sample prototype build.
  • Hardware build
  • Software and its logic
• 3:30 - An Arduino-Controlled Cordless Welder - Did you know that Cordless Welders exist? We will stack battery packs to make a cordless welder
  • Circuit Build of power stage - understanding how to switch large amounts of current with an Arduino brain
  • Connection to Universal Controller - to provide current control, selectable through the LCD screen
  • Programming the Arduino controller - controller logic
  • How to program the Reprapdiscount Smart Controller LCD screen
  • Doing a sample weld

Day 5-9: Project Days

There are 3 options - which area all also unique gift items:

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, make 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. In successive camps, we will use our own 3D printed electric motors to make advanced technology down to earth.