DRAFT: This is all under construction and is nowhere near set in stone.
The Path of the Maker
The XBW Dojo is a unique and experimental effort to teach workshop skills with a martial-arts-style curriculum. Instead of particular weapons, we learn tools. Instead of katas or strikes, we use engineering or crafting techniques.
IDEAS
- The curriculum is broken into materials, tools, and techniques each referred to as a "skill". Each one has a novice, journeyman, and expert level.
- There is a tool track and a material trackk
- What about disassemble/reassemble? It would be cool to have a track where you take things apart and put them back together. As you advance, you get into more complex objects and/or replacing broken bits and/or modifying the original in some way. Example: Tom Sachs changing the Milwaukee vacuum to use Makita battery.
- Each skill has three levels that are represented by materials. plastic, wood, steel, all three. Once a skill is completed, you get a pin for that skill in the material you have completed.
- Skill levels are materials: plastic, wood, steel
- Skill levels are dimensions: point, line, polygon, polyhedron. The achievement badge is a cube of something, and as you achieve each level you modify the badge itself accordingly.
- Skill levels are metals: copper, silver, gold - the achievement badges are colored at the level.
- members get a tool apron, the badges are attached to the apron.
- ooh, we should make our aprons.
How does this actually get broken down? Not sure!
Let's just start throwing info into this until something looks right.
Materials
- wood
- plastic
- metal
- textile
- software
Techniques
- cutting
- attaching
- measuring
Make Your Own Tools
- Marking Knife
- Workshop Apron
Getting Started
This set of skill trees by the MakerQueen looks to be a fantastic starting point. We could customize them to our own machines and discipline areas, but it is a great template: https://github.com/sjpiper145/MakerSkillTree
We should be able to use this so long as we give attribution.