Rope Maker
Venture Category: Robotics and fabrication
Community: Sensorica
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Objectives
Objectives
Design and prototype an open source, DIY rope making machine.
Evaluate its performance.
Dissemination of the device to local producers.
Description
Description
Fishing communities all around the world can turn recycled plastic into fishing nets and ropes.
Project requirements
The rope making machine design will represent a method for village-scale rope making of standard polypropylene (PP) rope from waste PP pellets/shreds, 16mm in diameter as long lines (at least 150-200m) and 7mm in diameter as short-lines (5 meter each). The design will represent an easily replicable device, built with stock components and minimal use of custom parts (unless they can be digitally fabricated with a RepRap class 3-D printer or CNC mill –e.g. limit to what is found in most fab labs and avoid high energy processes and a skilled machinist). The designers should seek to minimize cost and complexity while keeping throughput high (continuous if possible). The base design for the extruder -first stage - can use the Pearce group recyclebot designs.
Deliverable
Source code (CAD in native format and STL), full BOM (component, number, cost, and source), build instructions with pictures, operation/maintenance instructions, video of operation and prototype sent to the Project Sponsor.
Other conditions
The Project Sponsor would retain first academic publication rights (with Sensorica co-authors if wanted). At the time of academic paper submission full open source documentation released to the world.
Contents
Contents
Communication and coordination
Communication and coordination
Communication channels
Communication channels
Messaging: Discord channel and look for the Rope Maker channel.
For more generic discussions: Open forum, Main Sensorica mailing list
Social media: Sensorica Facebook page
Coordination tools
Coordination tools
Planning
Planning
Notes
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Created the environment and planning for the project.
We have crated an invoice for Sponsor.
We worked out the budget, which is coupled with the Leaves Blender project.
We have built an initial core team for this project. The project is open, in the future core team will de defined by pas contributions.
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If you're new to the project see Onboarding document.
Contributors
Contributors
Stay tuned...
Documentation repository
Documentation repository
Incentives
Incentives
Money: This is a financially sponsored project, you'll get paid in proportion to your contributions.
Entrepreneurial opportunity: This is an open source project, you can use the prototype and the business model that we will design around it to start a small family business.
Learning: This project is a great opportunity to experience and learn an open source hardware development methodology, to experience a highly participatory work culture, and learn about the technologies used in the project. You'll also be exposed to collaborative entrepreneurship and collaborative business models.
Exposure: Co-author one or more scientific papers that are planned to be written on this device and process.
Networking: Get to know people with various skills, some of which are versed in p2p economics and collaborative entrepreneurship.
It's up to YOU to extract some or all the above benefits :)
Economic model
Economic model
The short-term economic model for this venture is based mostly on public funding and crowdfunding.
The long-term economic model for this venture is built around open innovation and distributed manufacturing (DIY).
In short, for the long run, we're geared towards providing:
DIY kits (can be transactional kit sales) that provide required vitamins (non-digitally manufactured components) to build a particular tool (Zimmermann, 2014; Gibney, 2016).
Specialty parts / components, hard-to-find, custom (ex. BackYard Brains or OpenQCM both sell the most specialized and hardest to source components for their respective open hardware tools).
Help with calibrating and validating (scientific) hardware (can be transactional service) to provide security to prosumers who build their own tools. This provides prosumers with the confidence that their measurements or functionality are acceptably reproducible, accurate and precise.
Education / Training (ex. Open Source Ecology), include support. This can also follow the consulting business model (Fjelsted et al., 2012).
Ecosystem services: provide trust, validation, discoverability, help, a place to discuss and collaborate, etc.
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Organizational context
Organizational context
Agreements
Agreements
Exchange Firm Agreement - non at this time
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