Invention, Intellectual Property and Business Models

Individual Project

Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.
Prepare drafts of your summary slide (presentation.png, 1920x1080) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, smaller than a minute, smaller than 10 MB) and put them in your root directory

Learning outcomes:

Formulate future opportunities

Have you?

Outlined future possibilities and described how to make them probabilities
Prepared a draft summary slide and video

Dissemination Plan of Final Project

The reason I started my project was simply to fill a need to have an irrigation system on my fabfarm and, at the same time, learn from it.

I have designed and made a huge number of machines in the past, but I never worked on/designed from scratch the electronics and software that powered my machines; I only modified/hacked them, so I always relied on the open-source projects of others, like the Marlin firmware or Grbl firmware or the Printrboard. With this project I left my comfort zone and went deep into the electronics and firmware, creating a board from scratch and developing a firmware for my current needs, with some flexibility for expansion. I feel that my goals are fully fulfilled.

With that said, as of now there is no intention of making it commercial, as there are many options already on the market, like I referenced in the Applications and Implications week. On the other hand, I welcome contributions to its improvement, and for that reason it is already on its GitHub page; my project can also be found here in these pages for anyone to learn from or use.

License

As previously mentioned, I wish to make my work freely available so that other people can use or learn from it.

In order to help me decide which license to use, I went to the Creative Commons page, where they host a wizard to guide you in choosing a license, and then went to their beta page to start the process of choosing a license.

In this step I start the process of getting help to choose a license by selecting the second option.

Creative Commons license selection step 1

Then I chose the option that keeps the attribution of the work.

Creative Commons license selection step 2

I chose here to have a non-commercial license; this means anyone with a commercial project will need to ask for permission to use my work.

Creative Commons license selection step 3

I chose here to allow changes to my work.

Creative Commons license selection step 4

I chose here that adapted works be shared under terms identical to my initial license.

Creative Commons license selection step 5

Here I fill in the attributes of my license.

Creative Commons license selection step 6

Next, the site recommends a license; in my case it is Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.

Creative Commons license selection step 7

The site will also give me some options to copy text or HTML that I can then paste into my site or product information, depending on the case chosen.

Creative Commons license selection step 8

I then copied the content of the HTML to the license file, automatically changing the footer of this website, as it is loaded into every page via JavaScript, and added my new license to the project's GitHub page.

Presentation Slide

Presentation slide

Presentation Video

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