Community Microfactory
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Design
- Remote Dev Team contributes to open source 3D printed product and enterprise development. Can produce 1000 startups in one year.
- Freeloader dilemma solution - brand is protected. Anyone who starts one of these enterprises is free to do so, but additional is accessible only to contributors who collaborate.
- Can generate a community of entrepreneurs, who also show up to develop
- Part of revenue goes to incentive challenge prizes
- Website - email capture to sign up for the Open Source Microfactory Incubator
- Website - custom open source 3D printing software must be available, or we just print from approved models.
- Has ongoing hackathons in the community where people contribute effort to further product development
Services
Operations
- Revenue model - you pay a subscription of $25/month membership. BYO filament or buy it from us at cost + 5% maintenance fee.
- It has 3D printers, shredders, and filament makers.
- Ongoing programming develops open source products, and products are sold in the store.
- Store has recycling capacity. Store recycles plastics
- It runs off-grid from a rooftop PV system, 16 kW strong.
- It builds products sold in the local community
- PVC fittings, 3D Printers, 3D printing filament
- It's an online 3D printshop store where people can order things online using a 3D printing website - where participants are vetted. Custom 3D Printing Vetting