week17

Invention, Intellectual property, and Income

This week's assignment was about invention, intellectual property and income. It is about developping a plan for dissemination of the final project.

Invention

The project is about a simple light kit that can be fabricated and assembled at any Fab Lab by any type of user, made of affordable materials. The idea of this modular light is to make as many modules as needed depending of the function so it should be fabricated easily and fast. Therefore the material and the way of assembling that is proposed in this case is user-friendly and easy to assemble. So the idea is to make it as an open source project that can be used by anyone. During the Fab Acadmey,I was not only focusing on the fabrication process but the electronic part as well using C++ that was very new and challenging for me but interesting and fun at the same time. I also see the project being personal and collaborative. So people can connect and interact with the design in several ways, it can be used in different ways, modified but keep the original idea and design the same.

Therefore the license that I would like to use is the creative common. It is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Intellectual property

There are many similar projects out there but during the Fab Academy, I focused on exploring this field by keeping it academic and experimental for me and other user to understand the fabrication process and to experiment with the use and the function by just being creative. There are many details that has to be studied more like the intensity of the light and making it useable for outdoors. For now, I see it more as a prototype that still need to be improved but satisfied with the result.

Income

I think in my case, as I am offering an open source project that everyone can download, fabricate and create, the idea of income can't be really an aspect. But maybe in the future, it can be sell as a product. People can maybe design their own structure online, have the quantity they need and just order it.