OSE Chapter Training Calendar
Application
The time until beginning of training can be between 6-12 weeks, depending on pace of progress. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. The weekly schedule may look like:
- Video of Interest
- Interview 1 - Basic Interview
- Interview 2 - Expectations and Risk Assessment Meeting
- Sponsor is identified for funding the Chapter, and funding is secured. This step can take several weeks.
- Enterprise mentor is recruited
- Workshop space is secured for 2 years, about 100 square meters minimum.
- Payment is made to OSE
- Kickoff meeting - program beginning.
Work
Work focuses on hands-on development, with prior reading materials reviewed before the meeting. Each meeting starts with a 5 minute assessment or exam of last week's learnings, discussion of that work's week, and ends with a preview to next week's content. Work focuses on FreeCAD design followed by build for any of the development items. Typically, we work with existing designs in FreeCAD, we redesign/upgrade them, and prototype the new design. At all times, we decide on where to freeze the design vs make improvements.
There will be ample time throughout the 1-2 years to engage in collaborative design activity where collaborators gain significant exposure to large-scale, collaborative development protocols. The intended outcome is that the collaborator becomes comfortable with leading design and development work - guiding others in learning the process.
The weekly technical learning schdudule is as follows. Each week will involve work on different steps of the OSE Collaboration Protocol, while learning to build things in real life.
- Work plan - creating an editable, updatable work plan with milestones based on a Critical Path template.
- Collaborative literacy - how to collaborate on a large scale by publishing early and often, and what tools to use
- FreeCAD design and merge workflow. Part library creation.
- Machine Design Basics - Frames, precision axes, rotary axes, rotors, bearings, geardowns, stepper motors, stepper drivers, and heater elements
- OSE Specifications and design for distributive manufacturing
- 3D printer build - Universal
- 3D Printer Build - Pro Design of Frames
- 3D Printer Build - Pro Design of Axes
- 3D Printer Build - Pro Design of Heat Bed
- 3D Printer Build - Pro Design of Extruder
- 3D Printer Build - Pro Design of High Temp Heat Bed
- 3D Printer Build - Pro Build
- 3D Printer Build - Pro 2 Build
- 3D Printer Build - Pro 3 Build
- 3D Printer Build - High Temperature Build Chamber Design
- CNC Torch Table - Design Upgrade
- CNC Torch Table - Build Frame
- CNC Torch Table - Build Frame
- Plastic Shredder - Design. Source parts.
- Plastic Shredder - Build Geardowns
- Plastic Shredder - CNC Blade Cutting
- Plastic Shredder - throughput data collection week
- Plastic Shredder - Design Improvements 1
- Plastic Shredder - Design Improvements 2
- Filament Maker - Design
- Filament Maker - Build Frame and mechanical
- Filament Maker - Build electronics
- Filament Maker - Data Collection on throughput, quality
- Data Collection on Extrusion Rates and Their Maximization with up to 1.6 mm nozzles
- 3D Printer Extruder Development - scaled heater blocks with clamp design
- 3D Printer Extruder Development - building prototypes
- 3D Printer Extruder Development - Making upgrades
- 500 Modules - introduction to generating the entire technosphere
- Large 3D printer for Construction Materials
- Large 3D printer: Multiple-Head 3D printers
- From here on, this is the track that is done only if we have completed all of the above. CNC Cicuit Mill - design
- Quality control procedures for distributed quality control
- The last 3 months are dedicated to a final development project, based on agreed-upon priorities for achieving success as a Chapter. This may be a technology prototyping or a documentation/edu-marketing project
- Weeks 40-50 are discressionary - covering any time overruns on other weeks