Open Source Ecology 3D Printer, 3 Sep 2017

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From YouTube: 3D Printer Workshop - Promotional Video

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This video was filmed at 3D Printer Construction Set Workshop of 2017, and shows what you can expect from a typical build experience at Open Source Ecology.

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A

The first time I heard about OSE was through the TED talks, which I seen echo quite a few in quite a few people here today, quite amazing to be here, after only watching a TED talk and being so completely in awe over the possibilities. This could have for the whole world. I didn't think I'd ever be here actually taking part in an actual build, but I'm very happy to so.

B

The project that I'm part of is called the peak collaboration and that's what this tribal college and then South, Dakota School, oh I'll, see you at tribal College, South, Dakota, School of Mines and technology and then SDSU South, Dakota, State University, and the idea is we're trying to get more Native Americans students involved in stem because a lot of times we have these projects on the reservation and it's hard for the people to buy in because there's a kind of a disconnect there when they come in, there's been a history of them coming to do the work and they leave.

B

They don't follow up. They don't maintain the work, so the peope, the tribal citizens, are an absolute that they distrust outside engineers and stuff. So the idea is to create the engineers in the community and part of my summer. Work is creating this makerspace and we were just gonna, buy a 3d printer and then do it. That way. Then he said man. This is a great opportunity and we got the approval for it, and here I am so I.

C

I'm working on as a kind of a personal thing, a a particular type of robot- and this is actually just being here- it's kind of inspiring to me because it's like well I, haven't I, haven't actually, even even though I'm an engineer, I haven't really got my hands dirty in a while and just built.

D

Something my brother in law. Actually, he he told me that he came here and helped. That would be an aquaponic system and he showed me that tractor right there and I thought it was pretty damn cool and we've been planning for about a month or so to come here and though some 3d printers make some toys for our kids.

E

Okay, so I think we should get down to the workshop. What we'll do is so have one team on the frames one team on the extruder one team on the beds so through maybe like we start with three teams, or so three or four teams, but in essence all the different pieces are assembled as parts and then that's done all together. We work on team as teams, because the thing that we found out, if you do it as a team, then you're literally a production line of you know, we've got four axes times.

E

Thirteen printers, like imagine that, like two quality control that, if you're going by person, is literally impossible, unless you have like an inspector for every every station, so here when we build all of them all the X's, which is thirteen of them all gonna, be the same. So you can take a look at it and see. Okay, are they all looking good so as soon as the first one is built as soon as that can be quality control?

E

And we actually have a machine out there that that is a sample, but you can visually readily see it that this is okay. So that way we can actually also no.

D

I thought it was gonna, be really cool, come out here and meet some people with some level heads very creative people or like as soon as I got here. I noticed that they're all real nice. They were very creative before thinking people I, don't like it, but.

C

As far as what I got from the experience other than that you know, all these people are talking. It's all kinds of people here, I think I was mentioning to somebody earlier there.

C

You hear all these interesting, creative ideas that you just don't hear and a normal crowd of people yeah.

B

I mean any time you can fellowship and collaborate with like-minded people. I mean it's just it. It creates a level of engagement and some other projects don't and I.

B

Think that's one of the things as far as motivation goes is you have to have people engaged and that's the mind, spirit and body being in the same place and that's hard, especially with some of the work that we do yeah the minds there in the bodies there because it has to be, but sometimes the spirits not there and in until you kind of get that and I. Think engagement is that Nexus and I think that happens here. Oh yeah.

A

We did teamwork stations, so everybody was assigned to different tasks for the you know, so that we could all snap together our printers at the end. You know all together, so each piece of the printer, literally from the frame down to each little mechanism we worked on in teams.

A

That's on one one I mean you were on several teams throughout the day. It's not like. You were just like one team. It's you you moves kind of through, so you got it. You got it your hands on a lot of the different I have a whole new respect for what goes in to a 3d printers. It's not like I'm gonna. Look at them the same when I walk into us into Best, Buy I now, I could say: I know how that thing goes together and I've had my hands all in it.

A

So and I have a just a great deal of respect for the program. More sugar, a great experience, yeah.

F

I feel pretty good about it. I mean there's, definitely rough spots, so we got 13 printers. For me, the highlight is actually showing that we've got that six foot baby actually going, but definitely uh so we printed all the parts and the difficulty that we ran into this time was that because the extruder that we have doesn't have a cooling fan some of the parts sag alowed, then because of the quality control we were, who had a really hard time putting in the magnets for the magnetic attachment, so that pretty much like killed the flow.

F

So we end up staying up late last night and we're actually finishing up today, but as far as otherwise the experience I mean people were awesome, I think the energy with everybody learning and teaching each other. The whole group workflow I think that worked really well like pretty much the whole day. Yesterday I mean people were busy. He couldn't find a person, so I tried to find a person. Okay, help me do this. There weren't everyone's, pretty much diligent doing their own stuff and working as a team, so I felt really great about that. I.

F

Definitely see the potential that we can do this, like you know, eight to six I think we can definitely do it. We didn't do it this time, so maybe next time, but overall great experience and just keep doing it until we work out all the little rough spots.