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Invention, Intellectual Property and Income

Slide and video

Summary slide

Summary slide

Presentation Video

Task

  • 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 website’s root directory

Dissemination Plan

I want my project to be fully open source software and hardware.

Project Repo

I will set up my project repo so that anyone with the required skills can come and make their own Bonobo Lights.

  • Clear (and sexy) README.md with
    • The project slide
    • A couple of short videos (GIFs?)
    • Quick build instructions
    • Link to the Fab Academy site for the project.
  • Hardware design files
    • KiCAD project
    • .3dm and .stl for the mount
    • BOM
  • License: to be chosen. I want my repo to be freely made by anyone for personal use, but if they make money with it they should give me a cut.

Publicity

I also want to leverage the effort I put into it to raise my online profile and get potential business/work opportunities out of it. For that, I'm going to make some posts in social media about it.

  • I'll make a long cut of the final project video (around 3 minutes) in high quality and post it on YouTube.
  • I will make an Instagram post and story about it with short cuts from the video.
  • I will make a LinkedIn post or several about my experience in Fab Academy and the final project.

Future Possibilities

I might be developing the project more in the future in an open-source way. I want to add: - Wireless control interface - Video - Multiple units per wheel

I will not be commercializing it as a finished product. If, after publishing, people contact me with the intention of buying it, I might make kits commercially available.