Dan Meyer
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Tue Jun 30, 2020
- https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx-013359 - face shields
- $100k funding from Jesuit priests
Wed Jun 24, 2020
- Intros - dan is a manufacturing technologist. Die casting, high speed metal casting, and foundry. Cycle times of minute for an engine! Sand casting. Al, zinc - million castings for mold, mg, copper. Stainless steel has 100 cycle lifetime. Stainless steel it would
- Institutional racism
- Trained 300 fab lab teachers. White belt to black belt in tech.
- Marcin updates Dan on OSE recent activities
- Dan updates Marcin on recent Chicago Fab activities
- How the IL PPE network was created and runs, and future plans
- Setup a time for Marcin to meet the IL PPE group on one of the end of day zoom calls
- MSI Fab Lab and OSE collaboration
- Chicago Hacker, Maker and Fab Lab network and learning from OSE to maybe start a version of a Chicago OSE collective. Maybe at the Plant or at The #Chicago Sustainable Mfg Center or even at MxD Goose Island.
Notes
- Dan is our Foundry guy
- Teachers - from lesson to full-blown makerspaces
- Hackerspace - south side hacker space
- Hackerspace work -
- Made things professionally before this
- Heavy automation for die casting - total misconception that we don't have mfg in this country
- We don't have educated workers to run plants
- 100% job placement - for skilled people
- Mike Rowe - big welding guy - where are people for 'dirty jobs' - like welding
- Potential to 100% job placement for welders
- Fablab Mad Max
- Andreas - started in theretical physics, to leadership. Interested in resource flows and quality of opportunity. Maximizing eco and opportunity: open source circular economies.
- All kind of bullshit - tends to be pahsed out
- https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/incitefocus/students/daniel-meyer/projects/01FabShop/
- https://youtu.be/2lx77K_9dCQ
- Knows Bart Dring - Ordbot designed in one day
- Open Source Laser - from Bart
- Dan has ADHD.
- Nucalm.com
- Christian Macnamara -
- https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/incitefocus/students/daniel-meyer/
- PAPR - really hard. Rapid tool prototyping for war industry. Steel dies for die casting. In afghanistan. US army rapid design. Dan did that for 20 year.
- Rapid design - is understand your tooling deeply.
- Chicago museum - gave machines to group to train former prisoners.
- https://makezine.com/2020/04/20/plan-c-chicago-shield-part-4-binge-making-with-dan-meyer/