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invention, intellectual property, and income

This week we need to develop a plan for dissemination of the final project. My work is Writing Automaton which is a writing machine. I only implment partial of my whole plan, but it's still a workable project. I can divide the whole thing to several aspects:

1. firmware design: The code I upload to my board (Attiny44 based) is about serial communication and servo control. Both of them come from arduino library and fourm. I will say that there is no secret in it. What I did is integrating the technique to my project.

2. Machanical design: I applied a very simple mechanical design in Writing Automaton's hand and arm design. Beside, I hacked a mouse and redesign an optical sensor holder to make it like an input pen. Althoug I put lot of effort on my work, I am still happy to share my source files.

3. Interface: Inverse kinematic is a well know knowledge for both hobbyists and experts. Trigonometric is the core of IK. I use very simple trigonometric to accomplish the simulation, and most of knowledge are from internet , friends and what I learn in hight school. So I am also willing to share this part to everyone.

4. Circuit design: Circuit design is based on what I learned in Fab Academy. They are all open source.

So far I regard Writing Automaton as a toy design. Basically I will keep develop the project, this is just a start. I decided to put my dissemination plan as Creative Commons:

Writing Automaton by Yi-Pin Huang is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://www.fabacademy.org/archives/2015/as/students/huang.yi-pin/finalProject.html.