Anna Sera Lowe
- Open Know-How - https://openknowhow.org/
- Open Know-Where
- Open Source Fabrication Equipment - not there yet
- What is the information required to characterize a piece of equipment?
- Data model - in iteration.
- Open Know-Where - how we characterize equipment - chairing by Anna
- Andrew Lamb from Shuttleworth - funding the Open Know-Where
- Barbal - https://barbal.co/ - software for documenting
- Internet of Prodution Alliance - renamed Makernet Alliance - reasonably active community of people with day jobs
- Some tools exist in the constuction field - for distributed quality control.
- There is Field Sighte - doing an app to allow remote inspection by qualified engineers.
- https://app.fieldsight.org/users/accounts/login/ - DQC for housing
- Centralized production - not scalable at all.
- Pull approach via a business model - blockchain prototype for distributed contracting, with quality control built in. Multiple places producing parts for an order. Approval before the next bit. If you have quality spec-ed out up front - then the theory is - that would drive quality compliance. Were doing it under - FieldReady tried this in Nepal - Daniel Paterson.
- Making supplies near points that are needed.
- Ex for Fieldready - instead of injection molded buckets - tooling can be moved into disaster zones in local injection molding factories. Just got a big grant to do work in Bangladesh, Uganda, etc - using Open Know-Where standard - mapping of local community.
- Tapping into existing manufacturing base already - is more powerful - lathes, welders, injection molding - are more of a priority.
- Also machines that enable business models themselves.
- Small town in Kenya - amazing entrepreneur for brick making machines. $4-5k.
- Blockmaker -
- Kumasi Hive - operated 1.5 years, and then board, and now locally run.
- Business around 3D printer.
- Tech4Trade - closest to filament making. Still struggling with diameter consistency.
- Lots of people can do PLA.
- http://www.techfortrade.org/ - still closest to it.
- Joshua Pearce, U Lorraine, U Bath - PET extrusion challenge
- Diameter sensor at U Bath - instrumentation group there.
- PET water bottles. Holy grail for a good plastic project.
- https://app.standardsrepo.com/MakerNetAlliance/OpenKnow-Where/wiki
- Open Know-Where - doesn't have it's own site up yet so I'll just give you
the link to the project wiki - <https://app.standardsrepo.com/MakerNetAlliance/OpenKnow-Where/wiki> - if you're interested to join the working group and contribute to developing the standard do let me know (sooner rather than later, as we hope to get to first version in the next month or so)
- Internet of Production Alliance <http://www.internetofproduction.org/>. The web site is a work in progress so please excuse that, but it should give you some idea of the aims.
