Civilization Builder Crash Course Series
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Civ Builder Crash Course Concept
I am going nuts with this concept: develop 6 week rapid sprint method, which costs $1M a pop.
- Invest heavily in equipment to opensource other equipment - for example a commercial grade skid steer - using a small suite of high power production machines.
- Buy a couple samples from china - they are 1/3 cost and as good as 'mercan ones
- Cut one apart and otherwise take it apart to reverse engineer all parts and bills of materials.
- Do this in a 6 week Deep Generalist Boot Camp or such concept
- ~100 people on site (run it concurrent with Fellowship) pay $1200 for the experience
- ~2000 people remote participate in support and prompt engineering leveragin AI
- Fund it with $1M + $240k revenue stream above
- Do this with core team on site using productive, rapid prototyping equipment
- Start with 1 week boot camp at beginning of this boot camp teaching all the tools, skills, techniques of rapid swarm prototype design/build
- End with a commercial grade product in 6 weeks - Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) finished ahead of time as we still have 4 years left
- Effort = 2000 people * 10 hours per week each *6 weeks + full time of 100 people on site = 2000*10*6+100*40*6=120k+24000=144,000 hours in 6 weeks of coordinated effort. If valued at $20/hr that is about $3M in work, and $1M in capital for a total $4M investment and about 10,000x ROI as skid steers are a $10B market
- The above effort should be quite sufficient for completion.
- Incentivize the remote people with a 1 week product demo/final build swarm in the last week of the program - a party to reinvent civilization so it should be fun. We actually see the thing work.
- Build in a few machines like induction furnace/metal rolling so you get free steel from scrap. Game changer for cost - as this allows modern civilization for free.
The key above is investing heavily in capital equipment from china (in America we would need more like $3M in capital), to proide the rapid prototyping infrastructure. Namely CNC milling center, CNC torch table, welders, torches, plasma cutters, 3D printers for rubber tires and parts, basic circuit mills - and potentially induction furnace + metal rolling so we are actually making steel for the skid steer from scrap metal.
The good part is, after opensourcing, the capital investment for a microfactory capable of making parts including engines should be around $100k if we use the existing machines - to replicate more production machines! It's a zero marginal cost system, if we run from solar energy. So this means no poor among us. Key is open knowhow. I am actually getting confident that we can teach the skill set quickly - especially if we have a right mix of talent with a few experts and most being just average hackers. There is real rigor in the design aspect - namely for easy maintenance and lifetime design - as that is the killer of efficiency in today's economy so humans will never be free until this changes.
In sum, I think the above is doable as a replicable method.
Civ Builder Crash Course Equipment
- Show point by point the industrial machines and budgets. Ex. industrial filamenter or skid steer - $25k
- Show their production rate - about $5k/day
- Show reverse engineering path, detailing the team members, skills, and assets required for rapid learning at team scale
- Generate CAD part libraries, all resverse engineered, by taking the machine apart. While taking apart, generate BOMs and vBOMs.
- A whole remote collaborator audience (dozen per step for 50 steps, or min 500 people) contribute Prompt Engineering with AI, vBOMs, spreadsheets, etc of Dev Template
- Select for machines that can be taken apart - or ones with detailed CAD or design drawings. See if we can get CAD files for machines from source, or as much tech data as possible.
- Reverse engineer the rest
- Use full mechatronics design suite linux distro
- Recruit talent - such as a few key SMEs well-versed in specialized aspects
- Reverse the rest through crowd supply in the workshop - about 100 participanta for 6 weeks. The shorter the better, thus the more participants the better.
- 100 participants with a dozen or so pros can do the trick - about 120 peep total including funders
- Get pilot sponsored by a foundation
- Best candidate at present may be a remote control RTK GPS skid steer, 72 hp, about $10B market, or 10,000x ROI on a $1M investment
- 2400 participants - pay $50 - $120k budget
- 100 participants live - $1200 full fee, reduced for low income
- Core RLF capacity - rapid learning on all tools
- Tools bought:
- CNC torch - $10k
- Filament maker - for rubber tires - $25k
- CNC machine center - $25k + CNC Linux
- Hot metal roller - Hot Rolling Mill Sourcing - $25k for several of these
- Induction furnace - scrap from steel - $25k
- Shredder - for metal - $20k
- Telehandler - for moving things - $25k
- Skid Steer x2 for reverse engineering - $50k
- Welder - feed gun, and using PV DC at 36VDC and up to 400A gun -
- SMEs - probably double the materials for site participation, or more to buy their time
- This comes out to a $500 people + materials. Spend the rest on publicity to recruit the 2100 or so participants.
Civilization Builder Crash Course Series
Minus the Deep Generalist in principle, as this is all Tech Integration.
Help me define a program where we collabrate with key open source stakeholders to execute on a build of an open source machine prototype, such as an open source machining center with linux cnc controller, designed from scratch. Assume that we can all use open source software, hardware, and collaborative literacy. Since this doesn't exist, we provide boot camp in a Rapid Learning Facility and Design Guides - where kitted rapid learning lessons allow you to learn how to make steel from scrap, design electronics in kicad, and build with torch, cnc torch table, welder, 3d printer. You learn basic physics and a suite of mechatronic design software in a packaged linux distribution. You learn prompt engineering, mechanical and thermal design using FEA, and programming in python. You learn 30 power tools, how to make plastic filament, how to make cement using a lime kiln, and collaborative literacy of swarm builds where you design collaboratively using shared cloud editable realtime docs. You also learn power electronics through basic arduino experiments using a construction set for power electronics, and you learn computer vision exercises, and how to network between devices wirelessly. You learn hydraulics by building a Power Cube in 1 hour, and build a 3D printer in 2 hours, and learn how to install operating systems and servers on single board computers. You top this off with graphic design using an open source library of icons, and video editing for reporting, and publishing of video workflows, and design of brand assets for the project. You learn how to select BOMs across construction, metal working, precision machining, hydraulics, mechanics, and other mechatronics including bearings, shafts, stock steel, plastic parts, controllers, motors, and 3D printing + baking in clay to make fired insulators. This is a 2 week crash course, where you apply these skills to building a working tractor or other mobility/utility machine with 3D printed rubber wheels or tracks. You learn CNC machine use starting from FreeCAD design to CAM files to actual milling or cnc torching. With these skills, you collaborate on a month-long development project to design a new Global Village Construction Set machine. What I described above is a crash course - from which we can begin as a team of about 100 people to build an ambitious prototype close to product release level - at least to a high functional level that can be finished by the next cohort or extended stay of some key members - called the Finishing Crew. This is a program that OSE is developing, using wikis, editable docs, etc - for 100 person, 6 week crash courses on Open Source Civilization. Help me design a Rapid Learning Facility that enables me to teach all those key skills - through the most effective, hands-on kits, with a full open source stack of software and hardware.
Not much help from chat - [1].
Need to break this down and get specific, as what I asked is too big.
Fixed - i had to share and not just copy link 
RLF Design
Learn everything about everything in design and build of mechatronic devices. Invest in high power equipment for production, including starting from local or recycled materials so that value generation is robust, and that this microfactory constitutes a circular economy ecosystem - which can actually improve over time. Ie, new machines can evolve from it, and Recursion can happen.
Collaborative Architecture
- Collaborator mindset and written test, AI graded.
- FreeCAD core
- Live editable docs
- Dev Template at product and enterprise level
- Mechtrinics OSE Linux distro for calculation and design
- Wiki - simple work logs concept, hours graph.
- Discussion - what live discussion thread, only for synchronous development
- Video feeds - several from site - using multiple feed devices including unlimited data plans.
- LinuxCNC for CNCs
- Rules - newest on top
CAD
- FreeCAD + fab drawings + FEA + OpenFoam
- Sweet Home 3D part library for common design
- Blender for physics, landscape, etc.
- KiCad
- Sweet Home
- Inkscape for site drawings
- Full mechatronics suite on OSE Linux
- Select game engine for walk-through or rendering?
House
- Tool - learn 20 power tools and 40 different blades and functions in 1 hour. 20 different blade types and their function.Turn on, understand kickback, understand forces, understand capacity. List these for all the tools. Turn-on and body awareness.
- Connect PEX into sharkbites. Cut, chamfer, and insert. Take out.
- PVC fittings - glue. Then take apart with heat gun.
- Cut using a cordless router
- Cut using a cutoff saw.
- Cut and flare fittings of copper tube in 1/4 to 3/4" size.
Mechanical Design
- Frames, shafts, bearings. Use Universal Prototyping Cube consisting of an 3x3x3 foot box beam tubing assembly. Mount plates and heavy shafts. 3" and 2" shafts. Use mount plates to make wheels or a lathe. Or pivot. Done.
- Make a Power Cube.
- Make an engine. Take a block.
3D Printing
- Cast a block - 1 hr - heat scrap and pour into a 3D printed mold.
- 3D print a lost PLA form.
- Shred plastic in a shredder.
- Make filament using a filament maker.
- Weld 2 pieces of steel, and torch them apart by hand.
CNC Machine Center
Metal Fab
- Torch, welder, grinder, fat grinder
- Oxyfuel, oxydiesel, oxyhydrogen options
- CNC torch table
