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Week 19. Invention, intellectual property and Income (May 24)

Week 19 Assignment

  • develop a plan for dissemination of your final project

  • prepare drafts of your summary slide (presentation.png, 1920x1080) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB) and put them in your root directory

Slide and Video Draft

Slide

Video

Dissemination Plan

Since I want to keep my project open source, I decided that I will license this project under Creative Commons. To decide which specific license I’m using, I decided to do research on two main sites, past student Teddy Warner’s site and the Creative Commons site. From this I determined that the license I’m using is the CC BY-NC license. The specific features of this license, according to the Creative Commons site, are that:

CC BY-NC: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. 

It includes the following elements:
BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
NC  – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted

Here’s how the license emblem looks

I find that this license fits perfectly with my project because it allows others to remix and build upon the project, while giving myself credit for the inspiration that the project provides. Also, only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted, meaning that nobody can take the project and sell it commercially. The entire purpose of the project, when all the spirals are finished, is to provide a cheaper option to commercial quadcopters, so the decision to keep the project noncommercial is crucial.

Future Possibilities

Since my work on quadcopters is only projected to reach the first spiral by the end of Fab Academy, I have many ideas for future implementation/improvements that can be made in future spirals. First, the most important task for the next spiral is to get the quadcopter actually flying steadily in the air, which requires that I either drop some weight of the frame, or that I get a more powerful battery to sustain the flight for a longer time.

After getting the quadcopter to fly steadily, there are a number of ways it could be used. The two ideas for usage I currently have are

  • add a camera onto the quadcopter and use machine learning to train it to detect fires

  • add more sensors to it such as a gps, barometer, altimeter, and have it feed data back to a phone

These ideas are obviously meant for the future, but it’s exciting to think about how large of an impact the quadcopter project could have.

Last update: June 6, 2023