Invention, Intellectual Property and Income

This week I worked on a dissemination plan for my final project and created a placeholder slide and video for the presentation.

Dissemination plan

Since my final project is designed to be used by 3D printing enthusiasts that have access to a filament recycling machine, I think that the userbase would be too small to consider commercializing it.

3D printing has only come as far as it has because most innovations have been kept open source, which is what I plan to do with this.

This Creative Commons chooser page has helped me decide which specific license to use.

I ended up with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

It reads as follows:

This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, for noncommercial purposes only. If others modify or adapt the material, they must license the modified material under identical terms.

The best plan for making people aware of my project is probably to go through subreddits and Discord servers built around 3D printing such as r/3Dprinting and the VORONDesign server and post about it there.

Like I said, this is probably not a project for the masses but rather something for enthusiasts to sink their teeth in and help developing it further.

Fellow FabLabs would probably be interested as well, which is why I am excited to see the reactions I am going to get when presenting.

Presentation Slide

The biggest challenge for creating a slide was to come up with a name, but after that was sorted out, I got to work in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Presentation Video

My presentation video is kind of a supercut of the manufacturing steps combined with the system in “action”.

All of the video clips were captured with my phone and edited together in DaVinci Resolve.