OSE Immersion Program Curriculum
The OSE immersion curriculum is a deep dive into soft and hard skills of making a better world, framed within the work of open source ecology.
Schedule Overview
The course is a deep learning immersion based on experiential learning. The weekly schedule involves class time, hands-on builds, and participation in public Extreme Manufacturing (XM) Workshop on site or at other locations. As a result, immersion program trainees will gain extensive experience in preparing and running the XM workshops. Successful completion - or graduating to become OSE Fellows - means that the OSE Fellows can run these workshops on in different locations, while engaging in full time development work with OSE. The goal is to teach a replicable, bootstrap-funded development process for open hardware - towards the open source economy.
- Week 1 - OSE Boot Camp: Survey of OSE development techniques and the Microfactory I Machines.
- Week 2 - Open Source Development Process: Mass Collaboration towards the Open Source Everything Store. 3D Printer in more depth.
- Week 3 - Leading Extreme Design Jams: Open Culture and Leadership. Filament Maker in more depth.
- Week 4 - Extreme Manufacturing Workshops: Organization and Enterprise. CNC Circuit Mill and Electronics in more depth.
- Week 5 - Leveraging Incentive Design Challenges and Bootstrap Funding. Laser cutter in more depth.
Week 1 is a survey, designed for not only prospective OSE Fellows, but anyone from the general public who wants to get a taste of how an open source ecology development process works. Week 2 goes deeper into the modular, open source development process - starting with the history of public domain research and development from the steam engine to the digital age - and the tools and values required to make open development scale. We propose a mechanism for involving large numbers of people in democratizing production - in what we call our Open Source Everything Store initiative. In week 3, we continue with the practical aspects of leadership and team architecture required for effective, real-life + virtual, crowd-based development - the Extreme Design Jams - which mixes practical results, a friendly learning environment, a coopetitive (cooperation + competition) spirit, and a synergistic collaboration architecture. Week 4 explores the workings of the OSE revenue model - the organization of collaborative swarm builds that combine education and production in one. We explore how such a model can scale towards ushering in the open source economy in a bootstrapped fashion. In Week 5, we go deeper into the crowd-sourcing of the Extreme Design Jam model - by adding an incentive prize coopetition on top of the open source process. The goal is to incentivize wider participation, while inculcating awareness and appreciation of open source culture in a wider audience.
Learning Outcomes
Builds
- Capacity to build a cartesian 3D printer of any size and shape using the Universal Axis system, and to design the same in FreeCAD
- Capacity to design and build a CNC circuit mill from the Universal Axis system.
- Capacity to design and build a 4W laser cutter using the Universal Axis system.
- Capacity to design and build a filament maker and plastic shredder
Design
- Understanding the calculations and design principles of the modular Universal Axis system and resulting machines.
- Understanding admissible parts for design
- Ability to use FreeCAD part libraries and design guides to make design iterations and upgrades to the existing machines
Development Process
- Understanding and executing core processes for open source product development while maintaining documentation.
- Mastering collaborative workflows in virtual meetings with Realtime Cloud Collaborative documents
- Ability to manage a development process at a basic level in order to lead the development of any GVCS module - in Design Sprints or Extreme Design Jams
- Ability to run Extreme Design Jams - OSE's collaborative, interdisciplinary design and build events
- Ability to identify and reaching out to Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
- Ability to assess the development status of other existing open source projects
Communications and Teaching
- Ability to articulate the vision of OSE, it's current status, and main development points, and its challenges
- Ability to teach Extreme Manufacturing Workshops to a group of participants
- Ability to invite SMEs to a development process
- Ability to produce explainer videos and blackboard videos with title screen, subtitles, and links
Enterprise
- Understanding of the Extreme Manufacturing business model and the economic potential of the Open Source Everything Store
- Understanding the operations requirements for an open source education and hardware enterprise
- Ability to execute an Extreme Manufacturing event from part procurement to teaching
Schedule
Week 1 - OSE Boot Camp
See Open Source Microfactory Boot Camp
Week 2
- Open and Public 101 - Starting in Greece, ideals of freedom have carried on to democracy, transparency, public interest, and in the 21st century - Distributive Enterprise.
- Building a 3D Printer 1
- FreeCAD + 3D Printer Design
- OSPD - modularity etc
- Marlin
- Octoprint
- Cura
- Open Source Microfactory - Index of Possibilities. OSE Rules of Engagement - no whining. Pragmatic approach.
- You 101. Before transforming the world, youust transform yourself. Habits of happiness. Positive psychology - learned optimism. Personal and political ponerology. Health, sleep, food. Human augmentation. Augmented learning: speed reading, memory boost, book summaries, emptying the mind, smart drugs, understanding world class quality in all disciplines. Integrated humans. Busyness paradox. Happiness. You 101 - all types of assessments for ability, mindset, capacities, personality, disposition, etc. Saying 'impossible' is nonnegotiable - you can only judge whether something is worth it - and to make that assessment requires more thought than a lazy 'it's impossible'.
- World 101. Green history of the world. Medium of transformation. What has humanity learned to date about peace and prosperity, to allow people to thrive in balance with natural life support systems? What are the best proven institutions to date? Scientific method. If we attain that, where are we likely to go from here? The Better Angels of Our Nature. Homo Deus. Leviathan. Tax. War. Death. Freedom. Economy. Health & Medicine. Law. Cooperation. Governance. Getting along with one another: worldly education, responsibility (self vs God, cause and effect), science vs fiction, Homo Deus. Tipping Point. Seasteading.
- One Day MBA. Leadership 101 - you can't be an asshole including to yourself, and two, you need a skill set - which is not born but learned. Influence and personal power. Tipping point. Basic rules of communication: As King, and NVC. Personal to political transformation. Institutions of the economy and survey of economic thought. Size of the economy. The open source economy. Accounting, legal, operations, recruiting, marketing. Open ledgers. Open source product development. Vivid Vision. IQ, emotional intelligence, entrepreneurial quotient (EQ]
- Psychology, Self-Determination Theory. Logic - mental models and general Semantics, information theory, numeracy, mental models. How people think and how they behave. Esteem. Empathy. Peak performance. Mastery. Growth mindset. Top grading. Debunking myths in different sectors. Generally accepted as true. Energy, environment, resources, and society.
- Week 1 Workshop - Saturday
Week 2 - Microfactory I: 3D Printing + Small Machines
Session includes day visit from outsiders who can also participate in the workshop, for added energy.
This period includes the technology basics for rapid prototyping and the open source microfactory.
- Building a 3D printer
- Building a CNC Ciruit Mill
- Building a Laser Cutter interchangeable tool head
- Building a Filament Maker
- Building a plastic shredder, similar to the Precious Plastic version.
- Week 2 Workshop - Saturday
Week 3
This week will include workshop preparation and some prototyping, mixed with teaching on open source product development.
- Designing in FreeCAD - the basic OSE workflow.
- FreeCAD 3D Printing Design - towards a workbench.
- FreeCAD Programming 101
- Exploded part animations, language agnostic instructional, fabrication drawings in FreeCAD
- Finite element analysis in FreeCAD
- Collaborative design using Google Docs
- Development template 101
- Documentation Best Practice - from Building Open Source Hardware.
- Creating wiki templates
- Parsing wiki pages
- Setting up and running a 3D Printing Cluster
- How to Design a 3D prinreeCAD_for_3D_Printingter of any size from scratch
- Marlin 101 - custom operation, advanced bed leveling, filament width sensor
- 3D printer tuning, troubleshooting, and modification
- 2D toolpath software toolchain for Laser Cutter - Inkscape to dxf to gcode for drawing, engraving, and cutting. LaserWeb.
- Circuit Design 101 - from KiCAD to milling, populating, and 3D printed enclosures.
- Miling circuits - open source power supply for the 3D printer.
- Collabodative Rapid Prototyping - full team exercise that includes printing, cutting, and
- Cutting time and printing time calculations.
- Grinding waste plastic and producing 3D printing filament
- Designing new Filaments and producing them
- Manufacturing 101. Survey of manufacturing technology. The bearing. Manufacturing, and history of technology. Wood, steel, silicon. Water, rocks, sand (silicon, glass), carbon, sunlight, soil food web. Integration and distribution vs new technology. Summary of the 18 Dan Gelbart lectures.
- Week 3 Workshop
Week 4 - Enterprise Development of the Open Source Everything Store
- Products: (1) 3D printer; (2) CNC circuit mill; (3) laser cutter; (4) filament maker with grinder; (5) power supply;
- Mastering product BOMs
- Masering the build procedure
- Practice Workshops - Running a 3D printer workshop - 2 locations on the same day. 2 or 3 teams
- Announcement Preparation - week 1
- Week 4 Workshop
Week 5
- Refining Technology, Instructionals, Material Checklists, Quality Control Checklist
- Spawning a submission to HeroX for crowd funded crowd development
- Managing the HeroX - special course
- Preparing for a 90 day Development Sprint - on the large 3D printer