Week 18

Dissemination Plan

The Smart Clock as of now is a small project that is custom made for my mother to meet her requirement, and moreover this is a platform for me to learn how to develope a product. My project, if it works perfectly should be easily replicated in any Fablab and by anyone by following certain steps.

I have always been a fan of open source, I believe it is important to share the knowledge we have with everyone. That's why I decided to keep my project open source. The cool thing about open source is that it gives users the right to use, study, change and distribute the software for any purpose, which can lead to a significant and fast growth for it, as individual can edit and share their modifications. Regarding licensing I want a license that makes sure that other can build onto my idea, improve it or create something else out of it. Because the documentation of other projects helped me a lot in the development of mine as well. As long as they will recognize me as the initial creator and refer to me when they use any of it.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses, free of charge to the public. These licenses allow authors of creative works to communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy-to-understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. Creative Commons licenses do not replace copyright, but are based upon it. They replace individual negotiations for specific rights between copyright owner (licensor) and licensee, which are necessary under an "all rights reserved" copyright management, with a "some rights reserved" management employing standardized licenses for re-use cases where no commercial compensation is sought by the copyright owner. The result is an agile, low-overhead, and low-cost copyright-management regime, benefiting both copyright owners and licensees. [Wiki]

I decide to create a license for my project using Creative Commons.


This feature helps you select the right license, it has two sections:

• Allow adaptations of your work to be shared? For this part I selected Yes, as long as others share alike, because I would like others to share their work that is based on mine as well. This way more projects and ideas can be shared and created.
• Allow commercial uses of your work? For this part I selected No because I don’t want it to be used or reproduced for commercial purposes.

Based on these choices Creative Commons selects the following license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This licenses indicates that others can share and adapt my final project as long as they give appropriate credit and indicate if changes were made. And when they shape or adapt my work they should distribute my contributions under the same license. In addition, they may not use the material of my final project for commercial purposes.

License for my work

Time Keeper by Anooj Jacob is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Prepare summary slide

For preparing the summary slide I used the GIMP software.
1. Create new file in GIMP.
2. I selected the height 1920 and width 1080 as dimensions for the slide.
3. I Selected the images I wanted to add to the slide- an image of the clock face I took after shopbot miiling.
4. Added some explanation text about the features and functions of the clock.
5. Added the creative common license I chose.
6. I named it presentation.png
7. Saved it to the root directory.
8. Pushed it to gitlab.

Prepare video clip

For preparing the video I used openshot. It is a free and opensource software.


Then I imported all the images and videos I took during the making the clock.


I arranged the some of the good pictures and videos and prepared a video.


After making the video, I exported video and renamed it as presentation.mp4. Using an online compressing tool I compressed the video and saved it to root directory and pushed to gitlab