Curriculum

Curriculum is built around existing open source tools for various enterprises.

Specifics

• IPM 101. Includes microscopy, compost tea, greenhouse, aquaponic, outdoor, food forest, and other. General tools of the trade, common pests, are covered to produce resilient, integrated operations which work on Ecology first, and tabula rasa methods as the second choice.
• Open Source Lab - covers common analytical lab tools from microscopy, spectroscopy, lasers, biofeedback, chemistry, carbon, water, and electrolysis lab. Measurement of pressure temperature, humidity, others plus their controls. Includes photography, photogrammetry, and 3D scanning. Heating elements.
• Tool and Die 101 - design and fabrication of everything from tubing extruder dies, extruder screws, annular cutters, saw blades, various and sundry cutting, punching dies, and foundry molds. Blacksmithy 101, Coppersmithy 101.
• Automation - basics of DC and AC automation, including encoding, up to robotic arms. Automatic controls of CNC machines, industlstrial processes, and ecological systems.
• Housing 101 - design and build of housing focusing on modularity and Extreme Manufacturing. Design of houses, house modules, and building materials.
• Rapid prototyping. From OSPD, to reverse engineering, to 3d scanning, to cad, to cam. Techniques including 3D printing, plastic extrusiin, circuit milling, laser cutting, routing, and CNC torch table.
• Power tool construction set. Students gain the ability to understand and design power tools, from 660 electrical motors and up in torque. Gear boxes vs no gear boxes, micro power cube, -and solar electric power sources. Construction set in FreeCAD. Different mechanisms and working heads will be considered.
• Tractor Design 101.

General Areas

• Tool use training
• Tool use test/certification. Sign-off is required. This should be as practice materials under supervision of a certified user. Public Certification: applicable for reasons of absolute transparency. Test involves written evaluation form, including up to 3 pictures to document the results, uploaded to Trovebox in under 1MB resolution.
• CAD/CAM/CAE Literacy
• Computer Literacy (compiling, repos, etc.). CSS/JavaScript/C/HTML programming literacy. Cloud environment, forms, embedding.
• Power Electronics Literacy
• Mechanical Engineering Literacy
• General Numeracy and Physics
• Robotics and Automation Literacy
• Graphic Design Literacy
• Video Production Literacy
• Music Production Literacy - elective
• Logic and Digital Computing
• Artificial Intelligence, Logical, and Digital Computing
• Historical Literacy
• Economic Literacy
• Psychology, Human Evolution, and Peak Performance

Crowdsourced Curriculum

We will invite feedback from open source developers on the things they would like to learn (practical and theoretical) if they were given unlimited access to a research and training facility with a candy-store of tools and experimental labs - for a 3 month period.

Links

• Integrated Humans