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
  • Produces more machines eventually - grows to a full service microfactory, but starts with 3D printed goods.
  • Starts with weekly design sprints, and improvement of OSE collaboration architecture

Services

  • Products
  • Classes- including full STEAM Camps for open source product development
  • Hackathons - scaled with all locations at the same time working on a single product to attain high development velocity.
  • Membership (you can 3D print things and make filament)
  • Cost structure is 5% service fee to keep location alive and to grow it. Price structure is determined by a nonprofit with a board of directors

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 - as the starting equipment. It functions as a tool library.
  • 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