The Fabacademy experience,

Stage 17 : Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

Home Work :

This week, we have to develop a plan for dissemination of your final project Because I've got some big issue with the electronic of my project, but here are a good overview .

What is the FunGun :

It's a laser tag for playing outside , with a range of 30m under the sun. Concretly , it's a fake gun with IR emisor , with some IR sensor to detect when a player of the opposite team has "wounded" you.

The idea is to build an educativ DIY kit , for kids and teenagers.

What are the goals :

I will not describe here the benefit of playing laser tag, they are quit obvious : fun, team spirit, promote strategy and orientation skills.

There are 2 main goals : The second one is the real one ! The first one is the result of searching a project who could really motivate either parents and kids , because motivation is the keypoint for learning.

Who will "buy" it :

Well the good thing here is everybody could probably found an interest to promote making a FunGun :

Dissemination :

To promote the FunGun project , we want to make it opensource. A common part of the dissemination plan is a website explaining all the step to build a FunGun, including : Is it sufficient ? obviously not, there are already many lasertag DIY projects. But many educators have no idea how to deal with to have a PCB board, don't have a welder, neither a 3D printing machine. And this more true for parents and kids.

So we need to make it simple , like Arduino do with his board : we need a turnkey solution.

Turnkey package :

Because making the electronic part could be a blocking point ( welding equipment , making the board ..) we probably should propose an arduino version using a sparkfun IR emisor board : this would allow to have a version focused more in the 3D and code aspect.

Back to the current not-arduino version , we would have the following bundle :

Distribution channel :

We'll focus in direct online channel only :

We could eventually provide some third online store , but specialised in education or outdoor activties.