Dissemination of my final project would be done through free distribution. This project is not exactly revolutionary, high tech or earth shattering, so I would be hard pressed to make any income from its sale but more to the point, be able to acquire funding from any source for the cost of startup and production. Patenting and/ or copyrighting of what is basically a cabinet with a light would be difficult if not impossible. I feel that by giving away the design and the drawing files and some basic instructions and allowing others to modify and improve the design to fit their needs and wants as well as available materials. The internet and particularly Shopbot and other CNC routing discussion blogs and the like would be a good starting point.

Machine update: The drawbot is now assembled and awaiting a brave person to connect all of the motor wires and circuit boards together and take it for a test run. The pictures below document the work I have done since the last update about two weeks ago. The board is MDF, the guides are some part from a print press taken apart years ago, the spacers are 1/2” aluminum pipe and everything is held together by a drywall screw. The motor are on loan from Chris, the bobbins were design specifically to fit and 3D printed. The motor brackets were created from donated 3/4” aluminum angle stock. The entire assembly is mounted on a 5/8 thick board to bring the bobbins even with the guides. The second pen holder was designed to fit a Sharpie marker and was 3D printed, the metal part is another printing press knob/nut that happened to work well as a weight and able to accept a bolt to hold the marker in place. The marker fits nearly perfect in the hole, so at this time no bolt is necessary to hold the marker securely.

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