Rapid Prototyping Crash Training

Under Development as of 6.1.13

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2 Week Crash Course Covering

• Rob -
• OSE's LifeTrac Construction Set design paradigm.
  • Basic building blocks of 4 parts - Marcin
  • How to design and build them in Sketchup - Sam Carlisle
  • Mechanical Construction - Piotr Lugowski animations +
  • Hydraulics 101
• How to Document
  • Spreadsheet of Critical Concept Items
  • Spreadsheet of Technical Development Items
  • Script to convert Spreadsheet input to wiki-embeddable display of windows. See Documentation Platform Criteria.
  • Curated packages uploaded to Github, with Howto file linking to relevant wiki pages
• Sketchup CAD design and generation of 3D printing and DXF cutting files.
  • Start with Sketchup Cube Test (Sketchup Lesson 1), then Sketchup Lesson 2, then Sketchup Lesson 3 and practical exercise with Sketchup Tractor Construction Set Stock Parts.
  • Culminating with Tractor Construction Set Gamification Specification for Massive Parallel Design capacity for youth. Linda Abrams + Keith Boesky.
• Crash academy in generation of animations going from Sketchup to Blender animations - Piotr Lugowski
• Crash course in Instructionals generation starting with Script, Khan-Academy Style Instructionals, and Popcorn Maker upgrade.
• Crash course in Documentation by posting a Concept Design and Technical Design page for a given project on the wiki
• Manual plasma cutting
• TIG and MIG welding
• Acetylene torch cutting
• Mag drilling
• Ironworker machine operation
• Power Cube operation
• LifeTrac Operation.
• Building a CNC controller for the brick press via a CNC Circuit Mill starting from raw schematic files
  • Crash course in open source/free toolchain for circuits - define it
• Operating the CNC torch table starting from the design of a custom part.
• Operating HydraFabber to produce a 3D print of a piece of 3/8" tubing starting from scratch, and to cut a 3/8" piece of tubing from card stock using diode laser cutter
• Building a CNC circuit mill from scratch
• Building a CNC 4-stepper motor controller of 1-5A capacity from scratch using RAMPS system
• Operating the manual lathe and mill

Exam

• Starting a LifeTrac seeded with several failure modes that the student is required to identify and correct prior to starting the tractor
• Starting up a MIG welder to weld 1/2" steel from a starting point of setup, including gas, wire feed, proper gas feed, and correct power settings

Comments

• build on Fab Academy Course

one idea

It may be a nice for you to hold occasional educational sessions. You could turn your hydraulics, modular design, welding, etc. classes into a sort of boot camp people would pay to attend. Many years ago I went to a really great 3 week production workshop in Madrid that included talks, discussion groups and hands-on development - that might be a good model if want to do that sort of thing. But I'd say this is not a priority for you now, unless you really want the revenue.