Open Source Ecology / open source product develoment

There's some really good progress - and collaboration potential - for the Fab Lab machines to go open source. The Fab Lab concept was formulated 13 years ago -

https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Fab:_The_Coming_Revolution_on_Your_Desktop_-_from_Personal_Computers_to_Personal_Fabrication -

And many Fab Labs are active. Relatively little of their work focused on a replicable, open source machine set to populate the Fab Lab with. But good progress is being made, making collaboration timely.

This is timely as OSE also gets its Universal Axis-based, scalable CNC system off the ground. We have the lowest unique part count in the world - for any CNC motion system, so we expect that we can mix with the Fab Lab modules to improve our work. I also think that the Fab Labs can benefit from our steel-and-plastic composite design. That is, if they want to pursue higher performance at lower cost compared to aluminum.

Jens Dyvik and Daniele Ingrasia are open to collaboration on open economic development, and Nadia Peek offers her universal tool-changer to the world as open source. See more notes and a transcript with links for my presentation on industrial productivity on a small scale -

https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Fab_Academy_Machines_Presentation

and links to the other presentations at

http://academany.fabcloud.io/fabacademy/2020/recitations/machines/


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Latest thoughts on Collaborative Literacy. Overview of OSE goals and aligning thousands of collaborators to reinvent the economy.

https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Collaboration_Protocol

See the collaborative literacy page - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Collaborative_Literacy
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Here we go through the concept design of Open Source Ecology's CNC Torch table, which includes auto ignition, gas control, and auto height sensing.

This is a modular, scalable design - built on 5'x5' size modules extensible readily to 5'x10' and longer torch tables.

This is based on a fully open source toolchain: Marlin firmware and RAMPS 1.4 hardware, Universal Axis, Universal Controller, and FlatCAM or Inkscape for toolpath generation. Lulzbot Cura may be used for toolpath visualization and pre/post workflow processing. See https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/CNC_Torch_Table_v19.10

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Eugene coined the term "Collaborative Literacy" - a critical principle of how Open Source Ecology operates. Hear our discussion. http://fasterthan20.com/

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This is an nvitation to potential instructors. Video goes through the curriculum that is being organized. Instructors collaborate on this curriculum. Here is a discussion between Marcin and Steve, collaborator. See our plan to scale the open source product development effort - https://www.opensourceecology.org/ospd-and-steam-camps/

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Join us for 9 days of immersion training where you can learn how to design and build industrial machines of all types, along with CNC machines to help you in the process. We are looking to expand this program to many locations. If you are interested in running workshops of this nature in your location, you can begin here and begin your deep dive into public-interest technology that matters.

Presented by Dr. Marcin Jakubowski, William Neal, and Dr. Catarina Mota.

See more information at https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-stem-camp/

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Greg Gage is the co-founder of Backyard Brains - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Greg_Gage - and TED Fellow friend. Here is a conversation on how he developed his educational kits revenue model. Last year he was at $1M sales revenue and $750k from grants, and he's growing 20% per year. Discussing learnings for OSE's work on providing educational kits around the Open Source Microfactory. Good takeaway - we can bring meaningful R&D into schools.
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