Hint: Collaborative design of products that matter.

Overview

Collaborative design: all universities collaborate, not compete
Hydrogen car is broken into many modules - each is developed open source from engine to body to controller
Hundreds of teams collaborate, and start an OSE Extreme U branch. About a dozen branches collaborate on each module.
Modular breakdown allows for prototyping with modest budgets
Production machines to build parts are open-sourced as well
Annual Extreme Build at OSE headquarters brings build together for unprecedented collaboration
We reinvent collaboration and reinvent the economic process

Open Source Hydrogen Car

We are gathering collaborators for a Solar Hydrogen Electric Vehicle Challenge: Scope:

Lightweight electric vehicle running on compressed hydrogen combustion - a hybrid with hydrogen Power Cube
Involves development of open source hydrogen engine
$100k award, 1 year from launch. 2 year project.
Solar hydrogen production - stationary plant, phase 2. 2 year project
Onboard solar hydrogen generation - phase 3. 2 year project.
Proof of concept design - not an optimized design - initially
Focus on Design for Manufacturing - ease of fabrication in commmunity-based microfactories that is more efficient than mass production and allows for circular, open source economies

Show that hydrogen internal combustion (IC) cars exist
Show the advantages of hydrogen IC cars over regular cars
Show advantages of hydgrogen over batterries
Address advantages of hydrogen over gasoline/oil economy - decentralized, solar production
Address the disadvantages of hydrogen IC vs fuel cells
1. Address zero pollution by onboard oxygen
2. Address efficiency by distributed production - if you count full cycle stewardship, distributed hydrogen makes sense compared to oil wars
Address safety of hydrogen vs gasoline

Open source IC engine with atmospheric oxygen
Hydrogen storage container
Safety system - oxygen detector
Open source electric generator
Open source electric motor
3D printed car - carbon fiber filament
Collaborative project - all groups collaborate
$15k budget for each team - find corporate sponsors, defined as future of mobility
All components are open source - fabricated, machined, open source CNC screw machine, rubber printed, etc
Project includes developing production tools for fabrication
Designed for distributed production.