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Week19 - Invention, Intellectual Property, And Income

The task of the assignment​

  • Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project
  • Complete your final project, tracking your progress:
    • What tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?
    • What's working? what's not?
    • What questions need to be resolved?
    • What will happen when?
    • What have you learned?

Plan for dissemination of my Final Project​

DatePlan
30th MayDuring the Fab Academy classes, I organized the week and started to implement my dissemination plan.
31st May - 4th JunI begin to create my dissemination plan and also commence designing my slide.
31st May - 1st JunFinalizing the auto-feeder part and try linking computer vision to my project
2nd Jun - 3rd JunAll Assembly has been completed
3rd JunPrepare all photos and videos, finalize the final project slide and presentation video
4th JunSubmit all the final project slide and video, documentation
12th JunFinal Project Presentation

What tasks have been completed?​

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Completed Tasks:

What's working?​

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The following works are finished and learnt how to integrate a whole system during the making progress.

Working

  • Environment Sensing Part
    • Temperature Sensor - Getting temperature and display on the interface
    • BDS Antennia - Getting Position and display on the openstreetmap
    • Ultrasonic Sensor - Detect a cat is getting in the shelter or not
  • Auto-Feeder Part
    • Water Level sensor - Getting water level data to infer the remaining water
    • Feeder Function - Activate the remote-feeder function through the webpage interface
    • Load cell - Getting weight to infer the remaining food

Both of 2 parts are connected to MQTT server and transfer the sensing data and control signal.

Future Tasks​

  • Network is essential as two parts of my final project needed connecting to network.
  • It's a trobule that download firmware for changing the place for placing shelter(WiFi information setting). A interface is needed to input the WiFi SSID and password directly.

Intellectual Property Considerations​

  • I do not plan to patent this project.
  • Instead, I favor open innovation and sharing, to encourage collaboration.
  • The components used (ESP32-S3, camera modules, etc.) are open and accessible.
  • Any machine learning model used will be based on open-source alternatives (e.g., Whisper, TFLite).

The MIT License is a permissive free software license originating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It imposes minimal restrictions on the reuse of software, making it highly compatible with other licenses, including many copyleft licenses. Notably, MIT licensed software can be integrated into GNU General Public License (GPL) software, though the reverse is not permissible.

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This work by CHON KIT KUOK is licensed under a MIT License.

MIT License

Copyright (c) [2025] [CHON KIT KUOK]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Potential Sources of Income​

While I do not aim to commercialize this project immediately, potential income paths include:

  • Selling kits or pre-assembled units via marketplaces like Tindie or Seeed Fusion.
  • Providing educational workshops and online tutorials.
  • Seeking collaboration with accessibility-focused NGOs or startups.