TARS version 1.0
Week 19: Invention, Intellectual Property and Income
Plan for dissemination
I would be very please if anyone could create his own TARS. I believe by following my documentation it is surely possible. I personally encourage anyone and happily answer on any questions regarding my work. Most likely I will share it using social media anyway. Most of my friends are already aware that I'm working on it. I guess Final video will be the best advertisement.
Mass production is possible as well. However, it would require a bit of changes or improvements. Motherboard would require to be two sided board. Holes were hand drilled, it can be rearrange that holes would be milled during outline cutting. Chassis engraving is rather time consuming but most importantly some smarter embedding of two lamps in arms is necessary. Minor change in the chassis design would fix it. Other than that is just preparing for wave soldering (hand soldering is time consuming), which is just placing components. I estimate that preparations for mass production would take up to one week.
Licenses
As i previously stated I would be happy to see anyone else fabricating TARS. I would be more delighted seeing upgraded versions. I reviewed possible licenses on: Academy page. I familiarized with them. Here is the short list of my possible choices:
- Creative commons (CC) - is free and easy to use license for sharing creative (design) works, which is comprised of 4 main licenses with specific conditions: Attribution (by), ShareAlike (sa), NonCommercial (nc), NoDerivatives (nd)
- MIT - applies for software and is free of charge and without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software
- Apache - is a license for software, which is somehow similar to MIT license. It provides one to freely use, modify, distribute and sell a software licensed under the Apache License without worrying about the use of software: personal, internal or commercial. But the explicit reason that differs Apache from MIT license is that in Apache any change to the code should be clearly identified. If one redistribute software with any Apache licensed components, the person must include a copy of the license, provide a clear Apache License attribution, and add modification notices to all the files that he/she modify. Therefore, I find working with MIT license easier compared to Apache
- Fab - work may be reproduced, modified, distributed, performed, and displayed for any purpose, but must acknowledge "project name". Copyright is retained and must be preserved. The work is provided as is; no warranty is provided, and users accept all liability
Considering a fact that TARS is a movie character, which belongs to Paramount Pictures / Warner Bros I own only limited rights. I would state that my license regarding hardware and project idea belongs to Creative Commons. For software part I'm choosing MIT license.
Side note: If you will make it, please share results with me. I would be extremely happy to see it.
Results of the week
I have reviewed possible licenses for my Final project. This helped me to choose proper licenses:
(CC for hardware and MIT for software).
In the meantime I created presentation slide draft.
Besides I already tested part of electronics and I'm aware of possible changes in the circuits. I roughly estimated size of the chassis and how to connect everything. I'm planning to 3D print pins, which would hold chassis together. TARS will stand in rather difficult position, balance might be an issue.