Week 17: Invention, intellectual property, and income

Assignment:

Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project

Licence:

Creative Commons-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

You are fee to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Notices:

You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.

No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

Vesc-project:

The software I use for the motor controllers is an opensource software developed originally by Benjamin Vedder  (vesc-project.com).

My plan is to collaborate on that project, and eventually make a software fork specially focused on electric skis. Its main goal now are the electric skateboards, though it is applicable on different electric vehicles and motors.

Business model:

My plan is to keep improving the prototype to make proper tests on snow next winter. From that I will make a first beta prototype (in aluminum) to test range, working time, maximum slope grade, etc... I will also test it with some ski experts to get feedback about its real utility. 

Taking into account the creative commons licence, I will encourage other fablabs and people to collaborate on the project, improving it and making some versions of it.

It's not my aim to put it into industrial production myself, but I eventually could collaborate with someone, if there is some interest on doing it.