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All Production

lathe + mill

Ball bearings

Plastic, steel, ceramic, biomass

Rocks, sunlight, plants, soil, water (land is technology)

Why can it happen now? Sara: we developed bad technology. GVCS. Modern civ boils down to 50 machines. Veil has been lifted. We can now understand all of technology. 50 things that make everything around you. And you can participate in this.

From wood to steel to algorithm: Homo Sapiens, Homo Deus

Ales: Before: people could not share knowledge. They created it in one place and sold it. Now you can access wide knowledge from the internet. Now you don’t have to know: the computer makes it for you. You don’t need to ship, can do it on demand.

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Workshop Outcomes Marcin

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OSE Philosophy

  • Concept of public product development: everyone is a designer
  • Transitioning to a post-scarcity economy
  • Open Source Fab Labs (Microfactories)
  • OSE GVCS as a practical experiment
  • Replication of OSE Campuses so people have a vaiable option for practical education outside of academia
  • Transforming your relationship to production

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3D Printing

  • Building a 3D printer. But we just use a 3D printer, it is not the end product
  • Finding Print Files onine
  • Generating 3D Print Files
  • Troubleshooting
  • Repair

Open Source Microfactory

  • Concept of showing that 3D printer leads to large things - scalable design
  • Advancements of tech allow people
  • Digital fabrication: global design, local manufacturing
  • 5 Personal Microfactory Tools
  • Community Microfactory - the Open Source Fab Lab
  • How to build just about anything
  • Pie chart of what happens.

Public Design

  • Common collaboration tools: FreeCAD + wikis + cloud editable collaborative documents
  • Design Jams - basic architecture for design and prototyping
  • Systems Design
  • Basic Mechanical Design
  • Basic Electronic Design

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Workshop Outcomes Alex

  • Basics
    • Screws
    • Pulleys, Levers
    • Belts
    • Firmware vs. software
    • Tools interacting with them.
  • Printer knowhow
    • Control panel interactions
    • Universal axis system + Frame
    • Stepper Motors
    • Extruder
  • Engineering knowhow
    • Design possibilities - how 3D printer can be changed
      • From 3DP to mill
      • How to scale sth to bigger
    • Future printer improvements
    • Types of filament and necessary adjustments
    • 3d printing vs. other manufacturing processes, pros, cons, interesting
  • Transformational mindset
    • we can own the means of production [open source ecology]
    • it's not hard to engineer: it's accessible to do
      • Everyone can be an engineer
    • you don't have to do it alone (individual focus vs. building on a community path)
      • You can do it with OSE
  • Build Mindset
    • Find the right tool
    • Ask for help after 5 mins
    • Think about relationships btwn components & modifications
    • Identify all possibilities and shake it down
    • There is a huge vocabularly, repetition
    • Learning through practice is the standard, not theorizing it.
    • Leave no one behind
  • Designer Mindset
    • Outlining the creation process
    • Expectations around how long it takes to design something: prototype vs. finished product
      • How much effort is required for a design
  • OSE Mindset
    • Why commercial is open-source
      • Livelihoods
    • The critical path & why it matters
      • Coordination towards appropriate modern technology
    • Post-scarcity vs. capitalism

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Workshop Outcomes Dixon

Categories:

  • Possibilities of digital fabrication
    • Ex. precision manufacturing is enabled by stepper motors (no need for input)
    • Prototyping tools ex. Arduino with shields allow the abstraction of what was once complex electrical engineering
    • Libraries empowered by common hardware
  • Ideas of the appropriate scale of technologies
    • Decentralization
    • OSAT Concepts (most of the solutions are already there)
  • Fractal nature of digital fabrication
    • Fabricating a tractor or potentially a building is not that different from 3d printing with the aid of CNC, libraries of open source designs, and a common suite of open source tools

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Workshop Outcomes Sara

    • Appreciation of collaborative workflow strategies
      • Scrum/Kanban board tracks progress
      • Agile - parallel
        • Don’t just do but theory that there are words that describe this
    • Excitement about ongoing participation in OSE community
      • Community space online
    • Feeling that new friends were made
      • Safe, helpful, working with others is facilitated, diverse
    • Feeling empowerment to continue learning about engineering/hardware/technology
    • Understanding and appreciation for the unique features of the OSE 3D printer
      • Modular, scalable, auto bed level, stepper precision
      • Their participation made possible by the open sharing of vision and development
    • Transformation: inherent belief that conceptual foundation of society can be altered by their participation in OSE
      • (Transforming your relationship to production)
      • Build a 3D printer to build a router to print and cut a house from waste plastic and wood, including rebar with metal printing robotic arm - for a house with aquaponic greenhouse
        • This could be an animation that is put together
      • We have to show how a community like that works
        • A campus
        • Conversations with groups of people of what this looks like.
        • Nerds: free and unattached

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