Summer School Planning
Intro
We design and build open source industrial machines, and publish the plans on the internet for free.
This summer, we are offering a one month immersion into hands on skills that take you from your laptop into the world of physical hardware. We will be building of real infrastructure: tractors, houses, and other machines.
Over the years, we've been developing open source, community-based building techniques that bring tangible skills back to people. See the OSE founder's TED Talk:
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Then we discovered how to build a tractor, or 3D printer - in one day. Or a house - in 5 days. This is what we call Extreme Manufacturing.
Schedule
In this summer school, we will take students through an immersion of skills necessary for collaborative design and builds of significant products. This is an opportunity for hands-on experience with efficient productivity - on a small scale - unlike that offered anywhere else. The schedule is packed with 8 hour days of classroom and hands-on experience, where we do swarm builds of large and impressive things.
The typical schedule includes 3 hours of classroom and design time in the morning from 9 AM to Noon, with 4 hours of hands-on build time in the afternoon from 1 PM to 5 PM. Students will work on a collaborative project on Saturday. We have just secured a 1 GB internet connection at our facility, which means that we will be able to work effectively with remote collaborators.
Week 1: Design, Collaboration, and Prototyping using FreeCAD and a 3D Printer
In the first week, we will learn the basic workflows for open source design collaboration, and how to turn ideas into real objects. We will start with building a 3D printer, which we will then use to produce a cordless drill. We will design parts for this cordless drill, and learn how to modify these parts in FreeCAD to make different versions of the cordless drill. Thus, we will cover the whole process from ideation to build to usage of a real and practical product - the cordless drill - using a machine - the 3D printer - that we have built ourselves. The goal here is to show that advanced creativity can be achieved on a small scale - and how that applies to designing one's own life.
- Monday
- Morning: Introduction: OSE Introduction and Introduction to Collaborative Literacy. Learning how to work in large and distributed teams on complex design problems by breaking them down into small chunks, and documenting everything as we go. Basic product development process, stages of development, and taxonomy for open hardware. Keeping Work Logs and using a Template for documentation.
- Afternoon: Building a 3D printer.: Build beginning: 3D printer. We will build OSE's 3D printer, starting with the frame, axes, heated bed, controller, and extruder.
- Tuesday
- Morning: Open Design with FreeCAD. Basic workflow for producing complex design. Construction Set Collaboration. Part libraries. Merging files. Using the 3D Printer Part Library to design different versions of the 3D printer.
- Afternoon: Finishing 3D Printer Build Assembly of modules + wiring. Printing.
- Seminar, 6-8 PM - Integrated Humans. Growth and Learning Mindset. How to Learn. The Mature Personality. Resilience Mechanisms. Learning how to integrate technology with humanity.
- Wednesday
- Morning: Designing Printable Parts with FreeCAD Design Exercise - how to design useful parts that can be printed in FreeCAD. How to find parts for 3D printing online. Exercises in desiigning gears, belts, pulleys, battery packs for a cordless drill.
- Afternoon: 3D Printing Experiments. We will print the designs that we produced in FreeCAD - with a focus on designing printable and usable parts.
- Thursday: Arduino Microcontrollers
- Morning: Understanding Microcontrollers. Learn about using microcontrollers and Arduino for automation and control tasks. Basic programming in Arduino. Visual programming in arduino.
- Afternoon: Arduino Exercises We will make several devices using Arduino: a circuit for measuring temperature, measuring voltage and current, and a charger for a battery.
- Friday: Raspberry Pi Mini Computer
- Morning: Understanding the Raspberry Pi Computer Adding
- Afternoon: Building a Practical Raspberry Pi Tablet We will take Raspberry Pi, a touch screen, print our own case, and make a usable and practical touch screen tablet for $100. Ex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC-22hDlQLM&vl=en.
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- Afternoon: Building Scale Models of the Seed Eco-Home: We will use the 3D printers that we build to print scale models of the panels used to make realistic scale models of the Seed Eco-Home. This is useful both for play and for real design of buildable structures.
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