17. Inventions, Intelluctual Property and Income

Individual Assignment

Checklist for this week:

Task for this week

Goal

To produce a physical model to test the path of shortest descent, and if teachers or students are interested, I can share with them more about how it is done.
This is because in my course of work, I enjoy teaching and motivating talented students. So sometimes an experiment or designing an experiment will motivate them to pursue their dreams despite their starting point.

Unique Selling Point

Its Creative Commons 0. So No rights reserved. I hope parts or full design can be used to help someone's educational pursuit.

Dissemination

Honestly, I would prefer not to disseminate it for any commerical reasons. But if my choice of dissemination, it will be instructables as I am thankful for the community for sharing so many things with me while I was learning fab skills. My plan of using the final project will simply be using it to conduct and prove mathematical accuracy and let people who are interested in Digital Fabrication or Math to gets hands on with it. I will try to get my RO's approval to see if I can create a lesson on the mathematics and Digital Fabrication of this project for students doing research program in our workplace. But i think more work needs to be done if really want to use it. If approved, I will spend a few weeks making the videos. Redoing the project limitations by first surveying students and teachers, then lastly make lesson on the science and math of each aspect. If not approved, I will be happy to use it as a way to teach my own children, how to solve the shortest path and see if the data fits.

Sample Activty Plan

Time Activity Description
5 minutes Introduction Briefly explain the laser cutting and spilt students into teams.
15 minutes Experiment Setup Teach the students safety and regulations of laser cutting and how to draw design and cut acrylic using machine.
10 minutes Conducting the Experiment Let them try different curves.
5 minutes Competition Shortest time wins, advanced math youth can shape the activity to just go through the math and see the answer.