Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

Assignment for this week: develop a plan for dissemination of your final project

Positioning:

The Penta-Tone is an open platform for playing and creating music, sounds and games.

It sends standard MIDI messages and can be connected to any MIDI Instruments for sound generation.

It can be played alone, or in group/s.

It can be orgenized in different arrangements.

It leaves a lot of room for imagination of how to use it.

Credits:

The creation of this open platform took inspiration, knowledge and resources that are available on the internet. I hope this project will add to the overall open sources out there.

Projects that we took inspiration, know how and code:

For the Making of a Load Sensor:
DIY Bend Sensor (Using only Conductive Bags and Masking Tape)
How to Make Bi-Directional Flex Sensors

RF Communication:
James Coliz, Jr. <maniacbug@ymail.com> 

MIDI programming and communication:
Amanda Ghassaei (Send-and-Receive-MIDI-with-Arduino)

And many many more beutifull projects and how to’s …

Dissemination Plan:

Displaying the Penta-tone in exhibitions (can be suitable for many categories: music, technology, digital manufacturing, etc…)

Propose it to Museums (child museum, technology museums, etc.) and other public institutions.

Creating a mobile app to interact with it ….