Design Class
OSE Design
OSE teaches how to design anything using an integrated product ecology approach. OSE's university level design takes all sectors of society, and provides deep knowledge on how to design all aspects of civilization. This includes agriculture, technology, and infrastructure.
A given year has 200 lessons, and here is year 1.
General
General format is understanding scope, where it fits in civilization-building, understanding components, principles, best practices, calculations, interface design, modularity, product ecology.
- Electrical Design Guide - house electrical systems
- OSE Design Manual - Collaborative Literacy
- Collaborative Design Guide - how to design collaboratively
- Meta Design Guide - about designing in general
- Enterprise Design Guide - how to design OSE-Spec enterprises
- Living House Design Guide - how to add biological integration into housing.
- Money Design Guide - how to design a distributed financial system backed by hardware-based cryptocurrency
- Open Source Helical Piers Design Guide
- Philosophy of Collaborative Design and Economic Time Binding
- Mental Models - survey of various perceptions of reality towards accurate mental models. based on the principles of General Semantics
- Geological Survey of the World - understanding rock, soil, water, oil, and other resources by classification and composition.
- Survey of Tools and Their Use - across broad disciplines from clean room to agriculture across all sectors of society. Small and large tools.
- Safety Gear. Outcomes: eye, head, skin, breath, sound protection, force protection, cut protection. Includes respiration. Mouth/nose faceplate. Face mask . Various options of view window: clear, dark, color-selective, welding, impact resistance. Eyeglass modules. Filter module - for face mask, PAPR, air filter in general. Blower . helmet - breather. Helmet - protective. Hardhat. Head-fitting rotary-adjustable buckle. Eyewash station. Fire blanket. Fire extinguishers. Fire sprinklers. Visor square for mask - shading, clear, darkening (welding). Glasses - cellulose acetate. Small face filters. Large Papr filter. Larger house filter. Melt-blown plastic machine.
- How to Use FreeCAD - and collaborative workflows
- Computer Aided Manufacturing - 3D printing, CNC torch table, robotic arms, multimachines
- Integrated Agroecology and the Soil Food Web
- Agricultural Equipment
- How to Design an Aquaponic Greenhouse
- Manufacturing Processes
- How to Design a House
- Structural Design and Calculations
- Earthworks
- Applied Physics: Physical Numeracy
- Political Numeracy - understanding global statistics and figures
- Organizational Psychology, Positive Psychology, and Political Ponerology
- How to Design a Replicable Revenue Model
- Applied Chemistry
- Negotiation, Contracts, and Incentive Structures
- OSE Design Manual - Universal Axis - How to Design a Precision Motion Axis System
- OSE Design Manual - Universal Machine Controller - and automation
- Basic Coding: Microcontrollers, Wiki, Spreadsheets
- Basic Wood Shop: Tools and Techniques
- Basic Metal Shop: Tools and Techniques
- Measurement and Data Collection - from squaring foundations to precision desing - tools and techniques
- Orders and Magnitude and Scales - expanding one's index of possibilities to all time and space scales based on natural phenomena
- Proportions, Interior Design - having to do with numbers, applied to living spaces
- How to Design Power Electronics - Including applied lesson of AC dimmer and inverter. Rectifier. Chopper circuit - selecting the chopping frequency. Signal module + software. Transistor module. Modular design of power electronics. Welder soft start circuit. String inverter design.
- How to Design and Run a Circuit Mill -
- How to Design a Plastic Extruder for 3D Printing and Other Applications
- How to Design a Food Forest
- How to Do Earthworks. Including digging a pond.
- How to Design an Solar Lime Kiln
- How to Design Rebar Trusses
- How to Design House Framing
- How to Design Plumbing Systems.
- How to Design Pumps, Pistons, and Engines. Air and water. For general gas and fluid. Hydraulic, pneumatic, agriculture, industry, materials handling, clean room. Compressors. Applications from industry to carbonated drinks. Applications to Concrete/mud, Cryogenic - argon, piston - water pump for modern steam, high pressure piston pumps, Piston, engine, Piston, hydraulic, Fuel - high pressure rail for injection, Gear - motion and high pressure pumping
- How to Design Multifuel Piston Engines
- How to Design Hydraulic Cylinders - for oil and water applications.
- How to Generate Industrial Gases. Using air liquefaction, compression, and other separation techniques. Applications to Air, Carbon dioxide, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Argon and others.
- How to Design Water Systems. For Saturated Water, hot water, room temperature water, warm water, pressurized water. Steam systems. Hydronic heating systems.
- Water Electrolysis Systems - how to design electrolyzers at all scales and pressures for the hydrogen economy.
- How to Design Valves and Seals. Based on material type, fluid/liquid/solid, based on pressure and temperature. Pressure regulators and reducers. Fuel injector (electronic fuel injection, no carb). Steam injector (electronic steam engine). High pressure hydraulic. High pressure hydraulic solenoid. Ball valve, manual and electric, electric ball valve, Gate valve. Axial flux electric motor. Relies on high-strength magnets. Low-med-high p solenoid - gas or liquid. Solenoid valve. Fast-acting, high pressure solenoid - steam engine valves. Fuel injectors. Ball valve - manual closure, all flow rates. Poppet valve - engines. Check valve - ball. Check valve - diaphragm. Bump valve - steam engines. Solenoid piston/plunger valve - automated on-off; 3 pressure ranges. Ball Valves - pneumatic, hydraulic. Soleonoid valves - pneu/hydraulic, all pressure from 1 psi to 3000 PSI. Check valves - all pressures. Seals - rubber. O-rings. Solenoid switch. Solid state switch
- How to Design Cordless Power Tools
- How to Design Heavy Machines - survey of top important machines. Combines to modules for construction, materials handling, mining, agriculture, earthworks. Blade-tooth integration. Includes items such as blade, Scraper, Backhoe, 360 degree pivot, articulating joint, Tracks, Heavy duty traction wheels, steel wheels, all rubber wheels, Pivots - simple, Articulated steering, Telescoping cylinders, Cylinders, Telescoping arms, spider crane, tub grinder, Forks, Buckets, Grapple, Saw - tree or earth with removable teethk, Saw - tractor-mounted tree, Mulcher attachment, Pulverizer, Seeder, Sprayer, Spreader, Baler - round. *Baler - square. Hay rake. Mower - sickle bar. Mower - rotary
- How to Design Frames
- How to Design Modular and Scalable Power Cube Systems - based on different fuels and power levels from solar to nuclear.
- Designing and Milling with KiCad and Open Source CNC Circuit Mill
- How to Design Solenoid Relays for Gases and Fluids
- How to Design Things for Distributed Manufacturability and for 3D Printability
- How to Design an Aquaponic Crop Plan
- How to Design a Plant Nursery - from securing stock, pests and vermin, to marketing
- OSE Design Manual - CNC Machine Design
- OSE Design Manual - Electronics
- OSE Design Manual - Toolpath Generation
- OSE Design Manual - Hydraulics - How to Design Hydraulic Systems]]
- OSE Design Manual - 3D Printer Extruder Design
- OSE Design Manual - Heater Elements. Outcomes: heaters, furnaces, ovens. Part of Materials - heat systems. Aluminum melting heater. High temperature build chamber. Pottery kiln. Refractory materials - from gypsum, cement, carbon (graphite). Rotary lime kiln for cement production
- OSE Design Manual - Motors - motors - Hydraulic, Electric, Mechanical, and Turbines
- OSE Design Manual - Stepper Motor Controllers
- OSE Design Manual - Geardowns. Split ring planetary. Planetary. Herringbone standard. Chain - heavy and light. 3D printed rubber. Belts - rubber, nylon-belted, steel belted; Pulleys, sprockets, belt tensioning.
- OSE Design Manual - Shafts and Bearings. *Linear rail, 3d printed with metal balls. Linear bushing - 3d printed with metal balls. *Slew bearing *3D printed bearing with metal balls. *Bushings - nylon plastic or bronze.
- OSE Design Manual - Couplers
- OSE Design Manual - Pulleys, Belts, Sprockets, and Screws
- OSE Design Manual - Force and Torque Calculations
- OSE Design Manual - Structural Calculations
- OSE Design Manual - Thermal Calculations - thermal design and analysis
- Electromagnetic Design - how to understand electromagnetic forces and geometries
- How to Design Tool Blades - saw, band, cutters, other. Typically the materials covered by tool and die studies
- Polishing and Grinding - ultra smooth surfaces. Polished conncrete. Marble.
- Shredders and Pulverizers - for metal, rock, ceramic. Ball and rod mills. Slow rotating vs hammermill.
- How to Design and Build Bridges.
- How to Design and Build Roads.
- How to Design and Build Waterworks. From ponds to rivers to gravity storage and dams.
- Hot to Design and Build Skyscrapers.
- How to Design and Build Multifamily Housing.
- How to Design and Build House Appliances. Kitchen, HVAC.
- How to Design and Build a Zone Refiner. For silicon semiconductor.
- How to Design and Build Clean Room Operations
- How to Design and Build a Biodigester
- How to Design and Build a Rocket Ship.
- How to Design Airplanes, Multirotors, and Air Travel Devices
- How to Design and Buils a Train
- How to Design and Build High Temperature and Pressure Industrial Systems
- How to Design and Build a Food Service Kitchen
- [[How to Design and Build an OSE Campus Education and Production Facility
- How to Design and Build a Microfactory
- How to Design and Build a Miracle Orchard
- How to Design and Retrofit a Food Forest into Existing Areas
- Sensors- *pH, T - room, high (1000C), low (-273C), Humidity, Dissolved Oxygen, Oxygen demand, Oxygen in blood - Pulse Oximeter, Capnography - CO2 in breath, spectrometer, pressure - low - any fluid - breathing range, Pressure - medium - 50-100 PSI, pressure cell for weight, piezo, capacitive, Pressure - high - 3000 PSI, Oxygen detector, Oxygen sensor (especially useful for bioreactors, and Air-Fuel Ratio Sensors in ICE's, Refractometer, Chromatography, HPLC, photodiode, camera. Phase sensor - electricity, such as induction furnace phase lock. Display module - LCD screen. PV cell. NMR - magnetic field detection - by electromagnetic rad. X-ray detector. Non-Contact Thermometers. Pulse Oximeters. Laryngoscopes.
- How to Roll and Alloy Metal and Plastic. Metal shaft - how to produce one from scrap steel with induction furnace. How to draw Copper wire. Drawing Insulated copper wire - for windings. crucibles Crucible construction set - steel melting. Graphite molds. Aluminum from scrap sources. Hardening of steels and other metals - part of Alloying. ZA Alloys. Spring steel alloying. Ferrochrome alloying for stainless steel. Hardening - carburize. Hardening - hardfacing.
- How to Electrolyze Just About Anything - Alumina to aluminum. Salt to HCl and NaOH. Water to hudrogen. Carbide production. Graphite production. Aluminum production. *ilicon nitride - for bearings. Hall-Heroult crucible. Graphite electrodes
- Applied Chemistry - Salt, water, sand, clay, and charcoal to hydrochloric acid, glass, sodium hydroxide, carbide, graphite, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and aluminum. Sugar, vinegar, starch to sugar production, bioreactors to lactic acid, polymerized to PLA. Fractional distillation of wood to alkane production, alkene production (fuel and oil). Polymerization of wood using inherent lignin. Charcoal production. Alcohol production.
- How to Design Machine Tools. Air bearings. Mill Bits. Grinders - for tool and die. Steel Hardening - tool steel from millable steel. Tool Change apparatus. Lathe, mill, drill modules. Vises and slides. Tail stock. Digital readout. Shaft from bloom. Multimachine for bolts and threads and geometries. Welder guns. Honing. Heavy duty drill.
- How to Design a Laser. CO2 laser tube. Laser toolhead. Laser light bending optics.
- How to Handle and Process Materials. Machinery for materials processing: moving machinery, vessels, pressure vessels, heating systems, pumping systems, blowing systems, ball/roller mills, shredders, cutters, hammermills. Powders and particle grading. Containers, vessels in general - at all pressures for all materials. Piping and plumbing. Conveyors and augers. Stainless steel vessels. High temperature refractory vessels. Auger making.Shredder / Rock Crusher - heavy duty up to cars, tires, rocks. Up to 15k lb drive at teeth. Grinder - metal blades cutting off little chunks, such as multiple sawmill blades for sawdust. Smaller duty shredder - plastic, wood, etc. Laimet screw chipper, Hammermill - fast chopping. See Chipper Hammermill machine. Ball mill - for making powders such as dry pottery clay. Roller mill - for powders. Pelltizer - for low-moisture bonding. Strawboard production - rollers + heaters. Rubber micronizer - freezing [1] - chunks are frozen then high-velocity shredded. Freeze drying. Dehydration. Material moving - Rollers - steel rolling. Rollers - normal conveyors. Roller mill for powders - 3-roll roller/ Wire feed (welder, alloying). Wire feed - 3D printing filament. Auger construction set. Centrifugal pump/blower. Diaphragm Pump. Cryogenic pump. High pressure plunger or piston pump - water jetting. Plunger pump goes up to 30,000 psi.[2]. Powdering wood.
- Pneumatics. Combines with Safety for air purification, and clean-rooms for semiconductors. Biocompatible PVC. Inspiratory Valve - ventilators. Exhalation valve - respirators (unpowered, powered), fully enclosed face masks, fully enclosed helmets, ventilators/ PEEP valve - or water bucket version (see University of Florida Ventilator). Pressure Regulator. SCUBA Regulator. High pressure hydrogen delivery.
- Ceramics. Outcomes: fillers, pottery, 3D printable. Overlap with printing. Clay powder production. Ceramic insulators. Continuous clay feed from dry powder in 3D printing applications
- Plastics and Process Engineering. PLA production bioreactor. Cellulose acetate. Lactic acid production for Sweet Potato PLA - [3]. thermoplastic elastomer blends (thermoplastic + thermoset or thermoplastic rubber). Feedstocks for recycling: PE, PP, nylon, TPU, TPE blends, PVC, ABS, acetal (gears), PEI (high temp), polycarbonate (impact, glazing), cellulose acetate (bioplastic), PLA (bioplastic).
- Weaving - baskets, clothes, ropes, wire. Woven wire mesh.
- Nano - glass, carbon fiber. Molecular assembler.
Revenue Models
- How to Start and Run a CSA Operation
- How to Start and Run a Productive Aquaponic Greenhouse
- How to Start and Run a Car Microfactory
- How to Start and Run a Generic Microfactory in an Urban Setting
- How to Start and Run a Seed Eco-Home Manufacturing Facility in the City
- How to Start and Run a Collaborative Apartment Complex
- How to Start and Run an Open Source Residential Coop. Build by the crowd, and modularly so.
Machines
- How to Design a 3D Printer. Different motion configurations, different materials, sizes. Special enclosures.
- How to Design a Microhouse on Wheels
- How to Design and Build a Cement Mixer
- How to Design and Build a CNC Precision Multimachine
- How to Design and Build a Heat Exchanger
- How to Design and Build a 3D Scanner
- How to Design and Build a Bulldozer
- How to Design and Build a Backhoe
- How to Design and Build a Ironworker
- How to Design and Build a Dimensional Sawmill
- How to Design and Build a CNC Torch Table
- How to Design and Build a Trenncher
- How to Design and Build a Gasifier Burner
- How to Design and Build a Tractor
- How to Design and Build a Laser Cutter
- How to Design and Build a Soil Pulverizer
- How to Design and Build a Universal Rotor. Applications to Tracks, saws, Trencher blade, Sawblade, insert tooth, carbide, tile, multimaterial; Universal Rotor, 3" and 2".
- How to Design and Build a CNC Circuit Mill
- How to Design and Build a Microtractor
- How to Design and Build a Microhouse based on House Design Guide
- How to Design and Build an Induction Furnace
- How to Design and Build a Bioplastic Extruder
- How to Design and Build a Modern Steam Engine
- How to Design and Build a Solar Concentrator
- How to Design and Build a Universal Power Supply
- How to Design and Build an Open Source Truck
- How to Design and Build a Well-Drilling Rig
- How to Design and Build a Hay Cutter
- How to Design and Build an Open Source Welder
- How to Design and Build an Open Source Microcar. Includes Brakes, Steering, Frame, suspension.
- How to Design and Build an Aluminum Extractor
- How to Design and Build a CEB Press
- How to Design and Build a Power Cube
- How to Design and Build a Universal Seeder
- How to Design and Build a Spader
- How to Design and Build a Rod and Wire Mill
- How to Design and Build a Press Forge
- How to Design and Build a Plasma Cutter
- How to Design and Build a Metal Roller
- How to Design and Build a Hay Rake
- How to Design and Build a Hammermill
- How to Design and Build a Bakery Oven
- How to Design and Build a Pelletizer
- How to Design and Build a Baler
- How to Design and Build an Industrial Robot
- How to Design a Hydraulic Motor
- How to Design and Build a Microcombine
- How to Design and Build a Dairy Milker
- How to Design and Build a Nickel Iron Battery
- How to Design and Build an Electric Motor. Scalable pancake motor/generator, 3D printed, coreless brushless. Solenoid - valves, linear generator