19. Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income (June 6)

This week we were suggested to develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.

We also had to prepare drafts of our summary slide (presentation.png, 1920 x 1080) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, 1 minute max, 10 MB max) and put them in our root directory.

Summary slide and video

I have presented my summary slide and a video for my project. The slide is present at:

The video can be viewed at:

Project dissemination plan

This is very important for me. I had mentioned the plan in my initial project proposal as well. Electric Vehicles are very important for India to improve outdoor air quality in many of our cities, which are engines of growth. In this context, it is important to motivate students to get excited about the design and fabrication of electric vehicles. Since I am a faculty so through my project, I would like to create open source documentation for the design and fabrication of a low cost, easy to make electric vehicle. The fab academy course and the project provided a flying start in this regard. I would like to keep working on it to bring it to ready-to-use-kit stage. Keeping it open source would help this kit easily used by any one else around the world as well.

Future possibilities

I am a faculty in one of the most prestigious institutions of learning in India, IIT Delhi. IIT Delhi has also started a new centre for R&D into electric vehicles. I would be collaborating with faculty from various disciplines to make this prototype better.

IIT Delhi is located in the capital of India so the Govt of India is also in the same city. It is possible to get grants from the Govt for this project. I would imagine that we develop a working prototype of this project. Then we disseminate this information to people all around India through workshops. We also collaborate with few interested companies to commercially make such solar powered electric bike conversion kits.

Licensing of my final project

We have all heard of Creative Commons License for open source stuff. So, I decided to move ahead with a Creative Commons License for this project.

The process is pretty simple. You need to go to this webpage and fill in some details.

This is how it would look like:

Solar powered electric bike con kit by Jay Dhariwal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License