Open Source Microfactory Design Sprint
From Open Source Ecology
Intro
- Develops a product for opensourcewarehouse.org
- Starts with template on wiki
- Template requires sound design skill
- Embeds kit.com
- Prints the product in online factory
- Workshops with 12+ people are organized
- Code s embeddable for anyone else
- Most of revenue comes from education workshops.
- Printing is paid - cost of 10 cents per day with unheated bed
- Octoprint Online store
- Revenue of $50/day/printer running full time. Cluster of 4 printers yields $200/day production
- For 12 part kits - $600 per 3 days
Collaboration Architecture
- 24 teams of 4 one pizza teams.
- Design Sprint FB group - open hidden group - just need link to sign up
- Team diagram - template filled out
- Task log - let others know by posting on FB comment.
- Jitsi video bridge for communication
- Programmers, web designer, single page templates, wiki templates, server Octoprint, QT, python csv lists for simple design workbench.
- SEBD - a bunch of simple diagrams
- Interface design
- Hours breakdown
- 4 OSE Fellow guides.
- $10 admission - secures a team with commitment?
- Recruit from top design companies, and employee giving programs
- Simple FreeCAD interface in OSE Linux
- Teaching FreeCAD in 1 hour w/simple interface
- Teaching KiCAD using libraries. Can KiCAD be modifies for various construction Sets?
- Google docs
- Graphics - Gimp + Inkscape
- Isometric drawings extraction
- One admin person hired by admission fee to convert to HeroX
- Skill set: editing wiki, going through basic design process of 20 steps
- Going through production/prototyping process - test prints
- Embedding in wiki
- Generating Kit.com
- Embedding print in Octoprint interface after print testing
- About page
- Flyer
- Flyer for schools - join new contest.
- Sign up for a build - email us once there are 12 people
- Flyer for Extreme Design Jam to continue iterations
- HeroX posting with crowd funding for a valuable product
- Dev Log maintenance
- FB live reporting
- 48 people signed up for Sprint is a requirement. Cost is $5 to join broadcast. Goes to organizing cost. Sprint Organizer gets paid. Sprint Organizer is Trained.
- Later iterations - massive multiplayer online game. Where you design the machines. With Arduino simulator and others.
- Unknown - how do you track micro-contributions - perennial question unresolved
- Upon reaching 48 sign ups it happens - otherwise no go.
- Training for Design Sprint Managers
- Training for Design Sprint participants. OSE Linux required.
- Clear collaboration Architecture steps are required, as guided by a skilled person. Time commitment of 8 hours required, for people to both learn and execute. Reward is the learning from the best. Process must be tested.
- Base contract: promise to collaborate. We promise to deliver an economically significant product. Or possibly just its design, followed by a Design Build Jam. 100 people collaborate. Final product is a Workshop Manual, and a teachers' guide. 50 pages each.
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