Week19 : invention, intellectual property and income

License

Several options for dissemination are proposed in the lecture.
I will adopt Creative Commons International license, rather than patenting it for the following reasons.

• Patent costs
  As described in the lecture the biggest issue of patenting this kind of small project is the fact that it doesn’t worth it.
  Even provisional filing costs $100 (full filing $1000), then getting specification and claim cost another $10,000. Finally, you need to nationalize it to make your patent valid in other countries and it costs $100,000.
  Maintaining patent costs a lot too. You should continuously survey the market to watch infringement, and of cause, suing them also costs a lot.

• My project stands on a number of previous open source works of others.
  My final project incorporates a number of open source work including ones adopting CC non-commercial license.

• Finally, I am willing to see more people hacking and designing their own light environment by combining light with sensors or building their original interactions.
  I hope this project will inspire other’s idea and provide useful resource to realize them.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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User testing

I designed this product motivated by my own needs for light at our lab environment.
I assume more iteration will be needed on the process of designing interaction. I spent too much time on building hardware and could not manage to leave much time on this process although this is one of the most essential part of the project.
Under the permission of the lab owner, I would install the product for a trial and collect data to improve the system.

Presentation slide

Presentation video clip

Video link

Compressing video using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec h264 -acodec mp2 output.mp4

for light compression.

ffmpeg -i presentation.mp4 -an -b:v 1000k -vcodec h264 -acodec mp2 presentation2.mp4

for high compression rate.

Nice reference (Japanese)
http://creatorsblog.nijibox.jp/mov-optimize/