William Neal Log
Sunday January, 20 - Saturday January 26, 2019
Prepared for and welcomed 19 students from Jinling High School in China. Introduced the concept of the OSE Collaborative Contest. It was well received despite the students' fatigue from travel and skiing. Introduced FreeCAD and had students download and install it. Some computers do not immediately work with FreeCAD; hope that the problem may be solved. Created a link to LIA students' FreeCAD work. Currently the folder is being used for FRC preparation. After the FRC robot is built, we are planning to transition to OSE-related work in this folder: [LIA OSE Club CAD| https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sXbaB1QUU57K9Q52ALTogS3kpI_XoCgH]
Thursday January 10 - Saturday Jan 19, 2019
Heaviest schedule of the year - January and February; progress slower during this time. Working on STEM Curriculum for FeF STEM Camps - Summer School 2019. ol
Wed Jan 9, 2019
- Use a presentation - template - make a copy - pass this to Heydar - document the simple 3D printing extruder for a low cost 3d printer - [1]
- Homework: Complete STEM Curriculum
January 2, 2019
Ordered parts for a brushless motor to be constructed as part of the contest and part of the Computer Engineering Technology class at London International Academy. In order to make the collaborative contest work, we will need to create a kit of parts to be easily shipped to participating schools.
December 24 2018-January 1, 2019
Took a break. Reflected on plans for OSE London / OSE Club at London International Academy / OSE Collaborative Contest
December 23, 2018
Defined particulars of OSE STEM Camps.
December 22,2018
Conversation with Marcin. Research on OSE Club Activities. Planning for winter semester courses' links to OSE - Computer Engineering Technology and Computer Science. Plans to do the following in Computer Engineering Technology: build a brushless motor and ESC from scratch. Computer Science: Programming projects related to OSE - simulation program? Western University Introduction to STEM Class - offer the OSE Competition as a choice for a final project - help administer / judge / communicate / etc.
December 12-21, 2018
Exams and marking - excellent ways to hinder educational progress. Discussed Canadian bill of materials with Russ Purvis. Discussed the upcoming OSE workshop in Prince George, BC currently in the planning phase. Several phone conversations with Charlie. Worked on some particulars for the upcoming OSE competition in January. Contacted a teacher in Iran to invite her to join the competition with her students. Sent a letter of reference to Russ with respect to hosting an OSE workshop.
December 8-11, 2018
Spoke with Charlie about development of OSE workshops. Spoke with Marcin and Catarina about the same. Updated Marcin about development of OSE club at London International Academy. We now have plans to include at least four schools in our first design challenge - School of the Nations in Guyana, Fujing Foreign Language School in Shenzhen and Jinling School in Nanjing. Was approached by a friend to contact Makerspace managers in St. Thomas and Toronto. Arranged a meeting with the makerspace managers at Western University. OSE Marlin v18.10 works for printing with new printer. Successfully printed base layer of a file. It seems that the extruder may have jammed. Will check again as soon as possible. LIA students continue to develop their FreeCAD skills and are able to design parts in parallel according to a spacial plan and assemble them into a larger model. Installed OSE Linux on laptop now with a new old-school 1TcB hard drive. OSE Linux did not recognise the card reader; everything else seems to work very well. Note: Stepper motors on y axis of D3D became alarmingly hot after about 15 minutes of printing. Perhaps this is a configuration issue; may need to resolve this before allowing the printer to do a full print.
December 7, 2018
Using OSE Ubuntu on laptop with fried SSD. Internet has connection through ping but does not display pages in Chromium. D3D Marlin recent version from OSE website installed in printer. Autohome produces a collision of the z axis with the extruder as by default the z probe is off the plate. Tried to move the y axis using various commands such as G0 Y40 and G1 Y40 all of which cause the Y axis to move until it hits the maximum physically possible position. Spoke with Johann Wong about the possibility of combining an OSE Makerspace skills (Arduino, CAD, etc.) + 3D printer workshop with Human Innovation PIE's soft skills innovation workshop through the London International Academy Foundation. Was using wrong Marlin file for D3D printer - will try correct one asap. Suggestions for D3D: use zip ties and clothespin springs for tensioning belts. This has worked exceptionally well and reliably for our Chinese Prusa derivative; the belts have needed nearly no attention in three years.
December 6, 2018
Was about to test print on OSE D3D when SSD crashed. Did Ubuntu fry it? Researching this.
December 5, 2018
Introduced the OSE design challenge to OSE Club students at London International Academy.
December 4, 2018
Held an informal Introduction to Arduino Workshop at London International Academy to help two grade 11 students with a project. Spoke with Marcin about plans for the OSE design challenge, OSE club and possibility of a summer camp at FeF in May or June of 2019.
December 2, 2018
Created a document outlining a framework for OSL - Open Source London and shared it on Google Docs; visited Charlie to discuss the document.
November 29, 2018
Introduced OSE 3D Printer and Prusa i3 3D printer to parents and students at a local French Immersion school - PAFI. Designed and printed various models using Blender and Repetier.
November 28, 2018
- Updated OSECartCoin with letters.
- Call with Marcin regarding LIA OSE Club
- Build from last week - [2]
November 27, 2018
Wrote the suggested intro to Marcin's next TED talk: Marcin's Next TED Talk
November 26, 2018
Uploaded FeF Brick Press Fabrication video from July 29, 2011 - [3]
Uploaded video of the "Cluckaphone" - July 29, 2011 - [4] Call with Marcin, Catarina and Charlie - OSE Planning
November 25, 2018
Consultation about the establishment of an OSE Club at London International Academy and future directions for the development of OSE Clubs and Makerspaces.
November 24, 2018
We made an OSE Cart Coin with FreeCAD Here are the files for OSE Cart Coin v0.1: File:OSECartCoin.fcstd File:OSECartCoin.stl Attended Marcin's presentation entitled "Education for the Open Source Economy"
November 23, 2018
Built a an OSE 3D printer at London International Academy
November 23-25
Attended first OSE Professional Development workshop at London International Academy with Charles Freer, Pascal Gingras, Marcin and Catarina.
November 18-22
Prepared for the visit of Marcin and Catarina to London.
November 17, 2018
Conversation about OSE development with Charlie. In particular, discussion about education and its relationship to developing the capacity to lead a meaningful and productive life. Reference to overlap of Baha'i means and principles with those of the OSE - elimination of the extremes of wealth and poverty, building capabilities in a population, individual agency and initiative within a systematically evolving framework, etc.
November 16, 2018
- Received US $5000 Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant
- Conference call with Marcin and Charles Freer regarding Marcin and Catarina's upcoming visit to London, Ontario
November 15, 2018
Engineering Club students designed and printed a part to add to the Lyman Filament Extruder repository - a bracket for a rocker switch
File:Switchbase2.stl
File:SwitchBracket.FCStd
May, 2012
Started project to build metric version of OSE CEB Press in Nanjing, China
April, 2012
Began 3D Printing project in physics class at London International Academy
July, 2011-October, 2018
Many things happened including severe neglect of the OSE wiki
Some highlights:
- Regular incorporation of OSE concepts into classes and presentations 2011-present
- May, 2013 - started collaboration with Human InnovationPIE, a London non-profit organization focused on providing soft skills education for innovation.
- April, 2014 - Recognized in local paper for 3D Printer build with students
- July, 2015 - Asked to start STEM program at London International Academy further to success and popularity of 3D printer project
- September, 2015 - Began building Farmbot with students
- January, 2017 - Began teaching an Introduction to STEM course at Western University with significant OSE-based content.
July 16, 2011
Arrived at Factor e Farm with Haydar Neal
March, 2011
Saw TED Talk and wrote away to Marcin immediately