3D Printer Workshop 2014
Introduction
- Project Title: 3-D Printer Workshop
- Time/Date/Start: March 28-30, 2014
- Location: ?
- Leader: Rob Kirk
- Target Audience: 12 students paying $300 each for 3 days of instruction. Can leave with 3-D printer for an added $700.
Measures of Success:
- Complete workshop DVD published
- Target audience met or exceeded in number
- 90% positive reviews
- Budget was adequate to +/- 10% — no cost over-runs
- Complete procedure results in timely build of 3D printer with no documentation-related build mistakes
Milestones:
- Conference Evaluations assessed/improvements for next session made
- Conference concluded with 12+ clients @ $300 -- gross $3600+. #Conference Evaluations filled out by participants and organizers.
- 3 days of instruction complete—3-D printer constructed
- Students arrive—settle in get food and program details Introductions
- Payment completed and receipted
- Advertising all media sent out
- Workshop organizational and revenue model is documented so others can be trained to run the workshop
- Build instructions complete
- Curriculum completed/evaluations approved and printed
- Curriculum draft complete
- Budget estimate approved by MJ
- Workshop scheduled, and costs estimated, Presenter approved, Budget estimate in hand
- Attend 3-Printer Conference
- Planning for 3-D Workshop/build for March 28
3D Printer Critical Path
Milestones and Tasks
- Workshop Design - Jan 10
- Proposed Workshop Date (March 28-30?) and Location; inquiry on venues?
- Planning and milestone timeline based on first event, March 28-30. Draw up a Google Doc with timeline on the bottom axis that includes:
- Milestones, working backwards from March 28-30
- Expected duration for completion of milestone
- For each milestone, tasks required
- Link to the actual work being done from this Master Index - so we can track product readily from this Google Doc
- 3 day outline of curriculum - hour by hour for 3 days - Google Spreadsheet, Text, or Google Drawing
- 4 tracks of education as in World Expo Seminar Tracks?
- How to go from a physical object to a Scan to a 3D print
- Open Source Toolchains - Modeling in Sketchup, and toolchain for generating printing files
- How to work with FreeCAD and Sketchup files
- How to download and print files; repositories
- OpenBeam - would be interesting to collaborate with them (I think it's Sam Putnam)
- Building your own printer (our Main Course)
- How to document the build - pictures, video (OpenShot)?, video title screens, etc.
- Logistics for the event, Signup procedure, payments, etc.
- Documentation Plan - Teaching audience about OSE Documentation
- How we will capture documentation for improving future workshops?
- Plan for realtime documentation during build
- Division between instructional writing, photos, uploads to Dozuki
- Curriculum Development - Until Feb 15
- Promotional materials - by Feb 1 to start publicity (2 months lead)
- Flyer - 1 pager to post electronically on FaceBook
- Promo Brochure (to go on website) - 2 pages about workshop
- Promotional video - script - Jan 18
- Promo video - edit
- Social Media publicity plan - timeline and venues - Jan 18
- Instructional Procedure - Feb 1
- Materials list
- Dozuki instructional procedure
- CAD - screenshots
- Picture
- Video of assembly
- Animation video of assembly in Sketchup or FreeCAD
- Work Flow Design - Feb 7
- Fabrication diagram - which steps are taken at which time, which in parallel
- Facility Layout for Production Day
- Based on number of people - what each person does
- Financials - Feb 14
- Costs, budget, accounting
- Revenue Plan and Breakeven Graph for 3 scenarios - good, expected, and bad for workshop participants
- Food and venue costs
