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From YouTube: The World's First Velocopter - with Thomas Senkel
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Yeah,
okay,
well,
it's
somewhat
relevant
but
like,
for
example,
self-driving
cars.
Udacity
is
putting
a
course
on
that
and
allowing
only
250
people
but
guaranteed
that
after
you
do
this
you're
gonna
get
a
job
with
us
with
some
of
the
partners
so
because
they're
working
on
self-driving
cars.
So
here
it's
it's
a
little
different
but
similar
in
that
we're
training.
People
like
for
one
to
work
with
oscy
and
the
people
who
participate
in
workshops
to
actually
be
capable
of
realistic
product
development.
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Hundred
fourteen
hundred
for
a
nine-day
course
about
three
hundred
of
that
is
material.
Three
hundred
to
four
hundred
about
three
hundred
is
gonna
be
materials
and
it's
about
a
thousand
dollars
revenue
after
materials
per
student
we've
run
one.
We
already
ran
one.
We
had
eighteen
people,
so
we
pulled
in
like
eighteen
thousand
dollars
here
at
our
site.
Right
now,
we're
saying:
let's
do
this
in
multiple
locations:
let's
increase
the
talent
like
I'm
done
working
on
us
by
myself.
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Let's
get
the
professionals
involved,
like
you
know,
people
like
star
stars,
like
yourself
and
everybody
else,
so
we
create
a
really
powerful,
powerful
program
and
it's
also
a
way
to
fund
like
for
the
people
that
I'm
inviting
I'm
trying
to
focus
on
open
source
people
who
would
like
to
do
open
source
product
development
for
a
living.
But
you
know
they're
stuck
with
other
jobs,
so
that's
a
little
kind
of
market,
but.
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Like
to
train
development,
talent
and
then
with
the
instructors,
pretty
much
push
forward
open
product
design
because
every
event
will
build
upon
like,
for
example,
say
we
build
the
version
one
of
the
electric
motor
well,
it
may
not
be
a
professional
great
product,
but
eventually
we
want
to
make
it
this
for
distributed
manufacturing
and
commercial
grade
next
year.
Part
of
the
program
is
that
we're
planning
to
put
put
together
we're
working
on
this
right
now
but
200.
Let
me
close
the
window.
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So
that's
so
basically,
for
the
first
ever
example
show
that
open-source
product
development
is
the
way
to
go
that
it's
competitive.
It
developed,
delivers
10
10x
the
value
at
at
lower
cost.
So
that's
the
that's
the
goal
with
that
challenge,
but
but
part
of
the
people,
part
of
the
reason
of
the
steam
camp
is
to
train
people
in
the
full
open-source
development
tool
chains
that
enable
people
to
CAD
things
up.
Prototype
them.
Make
motors
make
electronics
that
are
required
in
these
devices.
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It's
the
core
for
me
to
go
there,
but
I,
also
like
permaculture
and
gardening,
and
all
the
stuff
and
I've
seen
your
reflector
and
I
said
wow.
This
is
a
great
idea
to
to
go
see
a
contractor,
yeah
yeah.
On
the
other
hand,
I
have
a
lot
of
patrons
also
with
microcontrollers.
Of
course,
I
I
can
do
ru
Arduino
programming
I.
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That's
interesting,
yeah
I
was
thinking
about
one,
that's
that's
literally
like
much
bigger
than
that,
like
as
big
as
a
trailer,
but
just
to
show
that
I
mean
I'd
love
to
do
that.
Myself
like
to
ride
around
on
the
free
energy,
essentially
yeah,
yeah
yeah,
that's
good
yeah
I.
Think
there's
great
potential
for
solar
velomobile
type
vehicles
like
a
velomobile
with
a
pusher
trailer
is.
Are
you
doing
a
velomobile
in
front
of
that?
It's.
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combination,
but
can
we
do
a
hot?
So
can
you
take
a
look
at
that
link?
Can
we
do
a
very
efficient
motor,
but
still
that's
less
energy
dense,
but
still
very
efficient,
so
it
doesn't
get
us
hot,
so
not
super
packed
but
little
bigger
size,
but
still
very
highly
efficient,
like
80
plus
90
degree,
90
percent
efficient,
80
90
percent
efficient,
but
it
has
less,
maybe
less
magnets
and
and
not
as
much
current.
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Yeah
well,
I,
don't
know
if
you
looked
into
the
detail
of
the
curriculum,
but
we
use
our
universal
access,
a
simple
XYZ
motion
system
and
when
we
make
the
motor
we
use
that
mode,
we
develop
that
motor
to
be
the
CNC
mill.
So
we
can
do
things
like
that.
So,
ideally,
in
the
eventual
workshops-
yeah,
we
can
do
either
in
the
3d
print
or
we
can
mill
yeah.
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The
other
hand
you
have
some
some
heat.
It
comes
from
from
the
iron
from
from
the
copper.
It
is
heating
up
when
you
have
a
motor,
and
you
have
to
dissipate
that
heat
yeah
using
using
a
good
heat
conductor
is,
is
a
good
idea.
A
plastic
is
a
core
conductor,
so
I
yeah,
maybe
ceramics,
would
be
a
good
heat
conductors.
Love.
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Electric
that
is
hard
to
deal
with.
Actually,
we've
got
a
pretty
good
guy
on
geopolymers
joining
the
team.
So
yeah
we
talked
about
things
like
making
motors
out
of
ceramics,
high
performance,
ceramics,
yeah
they'll
be
interesting.
That
are
also
three
imagine
that
would
be
3d.
Printable
too,
that
would
be,
could
be
interesting
depending
their.
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He's
he's
he
works
for
a
company
or
he's
got
his
own
business
or.
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Yeah,
any
other
people
in
your
numerous
six
I
mean
you're
involved
in
the
motor
world
of
motors.
Anyone
else
that
comes
to.
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Because
we
I
mean
we
can
go
about
and
prototype
you
know
say:
please
send
me
your
design
I
mean
we
can
prototype
it,
but
we'd
like
to
have
somebody
who
gives
us
the
rapid
training.
So
we
don't
have
to
reinvent
everything
yeah.
So
all
of
us
bring
together
certain
expertise
so
that
the
program
can
really
come
together.
Fast
yeah,
no,
don't
be
the
ideal
yeah
right.
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No
we're
saying
in
the
twelve
different
locations
at
the
same
time,
so
we're
also
collaborating
like
where
we're
doing
the
events
yeah
during
the
project
days.
We
have
four
days
of
core
skills
and
then
five
project
days
and
the
five
project
days.
We
all
share
the
designs
and
collaborate
even
remotely.
Oh
yeah,.
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Okay,
for
me,
they'll
be
ideal
yeah.
If
we
can
at
least
yeah
get
work
on,
see
your
design,
and
maybe
you
can
contribute
some
feedback.
That
would
be
great.
There
will
be
they'll,
be
good,
mm-hmm
yeah
we
can,
we
can
design,
we
can
start
by
designing
it
and
yeah.
We
have
to
put
it
together.
Somehow
yeah.
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Everything
we
design
is
designed
to
be
a
construction
set,
so
we'll
do
a
basic
prototype,
but
also
during
that
process
build
the
knowledge
of
how
to
make
it
larger
and
smaller.
The
specific
application
right
now
is
the
mill
milling
function
on
our
universal
axis.
Cnc
so
start
with
that,
then,
if
it
works,
we'd
like
to
do
it
in
power
tools,
cordless
power
tools,
because
we're
doing
that
incentive
challenge
on
the
cordless
drill
that
I
mentioned.
So
that
will
be
the
second
application
and
a
third
application
I.
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So
I
mean
part
of
it
is
educating
people
and
the
motor
design
theory.
Our
idea
is
that
we're
breaking
people's
limits
of
what
they
can
do
with
their
own
hands,
and
you
know
just
getting
really
quality
education
so
that
we'll
have
the
construction
set.
We'll
have
the
part
libraries
within
freecad,
we'll
teach
people
basics
about
how
to
design
this,
how
to
design
the
3d
printing
files
and
other
techniques.
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Yeah,
absolutely
absolutely
I
mean
we
want
to
get.
We
want
to
start
doing
the
numbers
and
I'd
like
to
see
the
magnetic
calculator
in
a
free
cab.
That's
that's!
You
know.
If
we
get
somebody
who's
skilled
in
an
area,
we
can
have
them.
Collaborate
on
the
freecad
aspect.
Cuz
freak
out
is
completely
extensible.
They
do
have
a
finite
element,
modeling
in
freak
out
already
and
thermal
some
thermal
stuff.
I,
don't
think
there's
much
on
magnetics,
but
people
have
talked
about
it.
It's
if
you
know
Python
and
if
you
know
the
science
you're
good
to
go.
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All
that
kind
of
stuff,
so
yes,
so
to
extend
it
to
magnetics
I,
think
it
would
be
a
next
step
that
we
can
contribute
to
and
then
get
those
higher-level
tools
into
the
hands
of
everybody
and
then
lead
to
people
about
them
so
that
that's
the
idea
just
to
really
raise
the
bar
and
what's
really
the
transparency
of
learning
like
rapid
learning.
That's
what
we're
after
yeah.