Week 18: Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income
The assignment:
2. Individual 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
Invention and possible impact.
Plan for dissemination
As mentioned in the “About me” page we have 10 makerspaces at my University. My main idea was to invent and make a device that helps students and professors at my University to improve the indoor environment fast and efficiently by getting signals from “the fish” followed by an basic action, e.g. opening a window if it is too hot. And that it should be fabricated in the local makerspace.
Another purpose of the device is to be an example of what you can actually make in a fablab/ makerspace. In Denmark we have a pedagogical term called “anskuelighedsundervisning”, meaning something like “Visibility education”. [….teaching method that uses, for example, pictures and concrete things to provide the student with knowledge and understanding of an (abstract) subject or concept. Click here to see the source.
In this context “the fish” is the concrete thing the provides understanding of the concept of making things in a makerspace/fablab incorporating 2D and 3D design, additive and subtractive fabrication processes, electronics design and production, embedded microcontroller interfacing and programming, system integration and packaging.
At this point in time I have hung one up after I came home from the FabAcedemy 2024 on VIA Campus Aarhus N. (insert picture) and more will hopefully follow on the other locations.
Finally the fish can serve as an startingpoint for a “challenge” for students. A working title for now is: Create a device that improves your learningenvironment at the University.
Intellectual property and creative commons
I have no intentions to commercialize my device. But I want to make my files and the knowledge that I have gathered accessible for others. In order to do so I have published everything under at creative commons license. I share the same belief as “Creative Commons (CC) - the international nonprofit organization” that we can
“….create a brighter future through better, more ethical sharing.”
The license that I have chosen is BY-NC-SA license. And for now the platform where I publish is this FabAcademy webpage.
This license gives a (re)user the right to do the following :
This license enables 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. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms. CC BY-NC-SA includes the following elements: