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Objectives
Design, prototype and commercialize precise manipulators.
Description
These devices are to be incorporated into larger systems.
Piezo-bases manipulators
MPM - S1: Piezo (stack and tube) 2 to 3 axis
MPM - S2: Low cost 1 to 3 axis
MPM - S3: Long range single axis stackable
MPM - S4: Tilt long range manipulator
Manual manipulators
MMM - S4: Manual 3-axis micromanipulator
Contents
Communication and coordination
Communication channels
Messaging: Discord channel
For more generic discussions: Open forum, Main Sensorica mailing list
Social media: Sensorica Facebook page
Coordination tools
Planning
Notes
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Documentation repository
Incentives
Revenue will be generated by sells and services of integration and maintenance
Members involved in the manufacturing process will get compensated according to the amount of time they put in.
Members involved on marketing and branding will also get a cut of sells.
A cut is also allocated to members operating in the social space, helping our community to grow and improving the image of our community, and to members working on Sensorica's infrastructure.
See SENSORICA Business Model and Contribution Accounting System.
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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