14. Invention, intellectual property, and income

Assignment:

  • Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project

  • Prepare drafts of your

    • Summary slide (presentation.png, 1920x1080)
    • Video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB)

  • Put drafts in your root directory

Dissemination plan

The product of the final project is not going to be commercial since we are going to utilize this project in our Mobile Fablab. The goal is to implement the idea of designing and fabricating a customized laser cut lamp shade into our workshops. In the future the workshop could also include electronics production in addition to the design process. This depends on the time that is available on the workshop day.

The idea at the moment is that one group of students has 3x45 minutes to visit the workshop and rest is done with their own teacher. In the beginning it is easier to just make the lamp shade pattern design and laser cut it and electronics are provided ready-made.

This workshop target group is junior high school and high school students. The goal is to educate teachers by organizing workshops where they work through the workshop content and make their own designs so they can teach digital fabrication processes by themselves. On the workshop day the main focus is on modifying the beforehand made design files if necessary and using machines. After the workshop day teachers can finish of the lamp assembly with students at normal school classes.

We are using this project as an reference in designing the workshop. Participating to the workshop does not cost anything to the schools so I’m not in that sense selling the product or neither service related to the product.

License

Since the idea of my final project is to promote learning of digital fabrication processes I want to let others use my work for non-commercial purposes. Hence I’m choosing Creative Commons with Attribution, ShareAlike and NonCommercial licenses for the non-software part(documentation and design files) and MIT License for software part of my work.

Creative Commons license: one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that the author have created.

Explanations of the licenses I’m using:

  • Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use

  • ShareAlike: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original

  • NonCommercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes

  • The MIT License: You have freedom to modify, distribute, sell or sublicense the software but the original license must be included in any derivative work

Summary slide

I used GIMP to make the presentation slide.

presentation.png

Video clip

I downloaded OpenShot to make my video clip. I have never made a video before, but OpenShot was very easy to use and I was able to make a short video fairly easily by just adding images in a line and defining how long I wanted to show each image I also downloaded a music clip from Free Music Archive and used it in my video. The Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses.

presentation.mp4