an Open Design Story : The Foldarap (v5)

Open Design // The FoldaRap

Emmanuel Gilloz

From – Now - Then

DesignerGeek

Idealist

Skills, commitmentPassion, learningHope, vision

DesignerGeek

Idealist

Design = weapon →Do Good

V. Papanek

“...design has become the most powerful tool with which man shapes his tools and environments (and by extension, society and himself. This demands high social and moral responsibility from the designer…“

Design for the Real World, Human Ecology and Social Change (1971)

Why : How :

What :

Improve the world. ok...??

From – Now - Then

Embrace changeSmall+Connected+Local+Open

E. Manzini

Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability - https://vimeo.com/9660466

“La prochaine économie n'est pas une utopie...Elle est déjà là aujourd'hui, grandissant dans la trame de l'ancienne. Il nous faut simplement la reconnaître, et choisir de faire ce que l'on peut pour la favoriser.“

Why : How :

What :

Improve the world.Meta-design, EmpowermentDIY, FabLabs/Makerspaces

Github (via GUI)

FabLabs (Nybicc, GsiLab)

https://www.facebook.com/GSILab

Workshops and mobility

3 evolution path :

- Performance

- Simplification

- Replicability

Not convenient : heavy, big,...

„Release early, release often“

With lot of pics (it's easy)

Open result, open process (wiki, forum, blog, github, etc.)

Bill Of Materials (with suppliers)

Documentation is key

FoldaRap Build Manual

Business model ?

http://www.ouishare.net/fr/2012/08/commandements-entreprise-du-futur/

Business model ?

FoldaRap – Batch 1 (Ulule)

HallofBuilds

Folda'Map

From – Now - Then

FoldaRap - Batch 2 (Goteo)

http://www.alephobjects.com/photos/printers/prusa/2012Q2/fleet/

http://reprap.org/wiki/FoldaRap_Distributed_Manufacturing

Distributed Manufacturing

- leverage the community- scaling up with agility- another way to give back

- low-cost (reprap based)- distributed- digital manufacturing service

http://thenounproject.com

The Noun Project Icon Template

Reminders

Strokes

Try to keep strokes at 4px

Minimum stroke weight is 2px

For thicker strokes use even numbers: 6px, 8px etc.

Remember to expand strokes before saving as an SVG

Size

Cannot be wider or taller than

100px (artboard size)

Scale your icon to fill as much of the artboard as possible

Ungroup

If your design has more than one shape, make sure to ungroup

Save as

Save as .SVG and make sure “Use Artboards” is checked

100px

.SVG

3dprintskin.eu

Working at the bleeding edge of open-hardware

“Mondrian“ (http://reprap.org/wiki/Mondrian)

Modularity powa ! And why not also foldable ?

reprap.org/wiki/FoldaRap

@watsdesign

emmanuel.gilloz@gmail.com

Merci ;-)

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