17. Invention, intellectual property, and income¶
Planning¶
Tasks - Must¶
- Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project
- Prepare drafts of your summary slide and video clip
Tasks - Nice to¶
- Complete mechanical assembly
- Complete electronics assembly and wiring
- Complete control program
Execution¶
License¶
I’m happy for my work to be shared and adapted as long as it is for non-commercial use and it’s not shared without attribution. I opted for the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
Work on the heliostat¶
This week I did
- Design and 3D print a mount for the motor control PCB
- Add a base with 3 adjustable feet for easy leveling
- Write the program for the motor control board
I documented everything in the final project development page
Presentation slide and video¶
I didn’t spend too much time on the presentation material so far as this will be my main focus next week. This week I created a simple draft slide and video:
- presentation.png - 1920 X 1080 px
- presentation.mp4 - 1080p HTML5, ~1min
Retrospective¶
This week was full of ups and downs.
I had fun designing and producing the PCB mount and the leveling feet and things worked out as I expected.
When I started writing the program to control the motors that would allow me to orient the mirror I soon realized that things were a bit more complicated than expected. It was frustrating when I did not manage to calculate the relationship between axis rotation and mirror angle but I’m happy that I found another approach that allowed me to find an approximate solution which is good enough for now.