Distributed Meritocratic Microfactory
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- Goal is on-demand open source production via self-agency and rapid learning
- Transparent rapid learning infrastructure - from as simple as visual presentations to AR environment to 3D game - are provided based on ability to learn something in minutes. Includes AR training bays for the relevant tool training. Game provides assembly practice with joystick, and provides VR environment with sensing of hand motions in 3D. Ability to grab and manipulate objects in 3D for manual step. Other side of machine augmentation is precision CNC cartesian and robot arms for tasks that cannot be done readily by humans.
- This is a complete human-machine collaboration environment.
- Automation exists for 3D motion or cartesian robotics wherever useful
- People invest, for a specific usufruct and training right. Separated into online, site-based, and virtual devices in training. On site, it is building the site, running it, starting from land acquisition.
- Steps are grading the site, building infrastructure - with rebar, dirt, and concrete, 3D printed plastic forms.
- Requires infrastructures: heavy machinery, precision cnc, robot arms, waterjet cutter, welders, 3D printing recycling infrastructure, Ardupilot motion control, computer vision for part recognition.
- Rapid learning involves phone app scan for object recognition in a learning environment
- Crowd funding is based on productivity with coordination of 24 person crews. Crew applies to infrastructure consturction as well, with production runs lasting 5 days in a 'swarm build' scenario.
- This builds in lifetime product support through the available production infrastructure.
- Applies to any product from house to car to tractor to PV panel to semiconductors, including materials production such as steel or silicon ingot.
- People simply sign up for production runs.
- Likely around $1M design + $2M startup for any product. $3-5M startup per microfactory, to generate New Industrial System - with productivity of $20k/day value as a baseline for a $3-5M facility. If startup is $5M, payback is 250 days. Anything on the scale of a year is highly scalable.
- Includes complete "Learn how to Design", "Learn Physics", "Learn to Count", etc - rapid learning crash courses for smart individuals. However, 'Smart' is multifaceted - it could be organizationally, physical dexterity, brains, logic - but it has to be bound by collaborative literacy. It must be cross-trained.
- Transparent ledger funding - with normal currency or cryptocurrency - crowdfunds the operation