Assignment 18

The Assignment for week 18 was develop a plan for dissemination of your final project, prepare a summary slide and video clip highlighting your final project. This was so that we could start to put our finishing touches on our Fab Academy projects and look at how we would protect our intellectual property.

The idea of a snowboarding hot box is not new. There are currently a couple of corporate manufacturers that are producing them for the ski and snowboard industry. These units are quite expensive and are being sold to commercial shops. I have located a couple of home enthusiasts that have some basic information on the idea of a hot box. My take on this product was to come at it from the easy to build with easy to locate parts that worked with little effort from the home hobbyist. I am also trying to keep it low cost, easy to move and easy to use. The main thought was to build a device to save me time as I am a person with many irons in the fire and spending 2-3 hours waxing board takes away from other activities. The skills learned in this course have helped me to build the first iteration of the homebuilt hot box which I hope will lead to refinement and maybe the licensing of plans for others to build this project at home.

After looking at some of the previous students project pages it seems that that Creative Commons is the most popular way to go. I like the many options and chose one that fit my view on sharing of work. I chose to make mine adaptable and sharable. In the future if I were to make a business venture out of this I would be more selling the plans to build the hotbox not sell actual assembled hotboxes.

Once I answered all of the basic questions and filled in my information I was given a link to place the Creative Commons logo on my site. This will allow all visitors and people doing research how to attribute work and what protections I have asked for.

Homebuilt Hotbox by Jeff Willauer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://archive.fabacademy.org/archives/2017/fablabwaunakee/students/87/.

While also doing research from the lecture I decided to also use the MIT license in order to grant permission/protect work and myself going forward. Their language is as follows:

copyright (c) <2017> < Jeff Willauer > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.