STEAM Camp Business Plan
Scenarios
Executive Summary
The Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp empowers novices and experts alike to learn the basics of collaborative product design using advanced, open source tools. Curriculum covers 4 days of using tools and techniques that allow an individual to contribute meaningfully to collaborative, open source product design. These tools include collaborative literacy and development techniques, open source CAD software, open source 3D printers for on-demand prototyping, and documenting everything according to best practices of open hardware documentation. We focus on using Universal Axis - an open source construction set for precision motion - to create open source manufacturing tools - such as 3D printers, CNC mills, and laser cutters - and then apply these tools to building real products that contribute to a public design effort for creating the open source economy.
Using open source techniques and guidance from our team of expert instructors, students build real products that they can then take home with them: 3D printers, a functional cordless drill, a Raspberri Pi tablet, an aerial drone, and many others. All participants are then encouraged to start their own business producing 3D printed electromechanical products and to create the open source equivalent of Amazon.
Dev Kit
And workflow. People download all designs
- Arduino kit with temperature, humidity sensor, and
- LCD screen - Basic programming on LCD screen - display and selection. LCD screen included in 3D printer kit.
- D3D Simple - a basic 3d printer for beginning to prototype like a pro.
- OSE Linux bootable disk. Has FreeCAD tutorials and other critical assets. Comes with front page of browser configured to load the OSE Part Library.
- OSE Part Library USB - download all of our designs.
Curriculum
Day 1 - 8 hours
- 1 hr - OSE introduction
- People Intros and Learning Goals - 30 min
- FreeCAD Intro - 1/2 hour to the first Complex Shape
- Intro to OSE Dev Kit - OSE Linux, FreeCAD 16 and 18, Cura, Arduino IDE, OBS Studio, Kdelive, KiCAD
- Exporting WebGL 3D graphics - 1/2 hr
- Drawing Arduino Mega in KiCAD - 1 hr exercise to export a