Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

Here's a summary about what you'll see next:

1) Choosing License For Final Project
2) Demo Final Poster
3) Demo Final Video
4) Answering Some Questions

1) Choosing License For Final Project

For this week we first had to develop a plan for dissemination and having a license for our final project. I didn't know much about this so it was a good opportunity to know more about licenses. I went to Mohammed Tarek's Documentation to explore more and I found him putting a link for a license chooser which helped me a lot choosing my license.

I answered the questions based on what I need. I wanted to have attribution and the project to be for non-commercial use, also I wanted to give everyone the right to build and improve on this work but to distribute these contributions under the same license. So my license was: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.


2) Demo Final Poster


3) Demo Final Video


4) Answering Some Questions

1- What tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain? What will happen when?

All the tasks with a checked mark is completed. Meaning, what's only left is making the communication with mobile app, some improvements, and preparing for final presentation.

2- What's working? What's not?

For now everything is working as they should. Except the 5V pump, as it works on powering on and when uploading code and affecting on the display and neopixel. I asked Eng. Karim who was my manager in a previous job and he told me I should separate powering the microcontroller from the other components like the pump and this should solve the problem. Also the pump is connected on the D9 pin which is a MISO pin in SPI so I guess I'll move it to another pin if I fabricate the PCB again because it caused problems too.

3- What questions need to be resolved?

  • How to make the values of the sensors variables so they can be changed based on the plant needs?
  • Should the communication be over Wi-Fi or BLE?
  • Will separating powering solve the problem of the pump?
  • How to make the accessibility better in the design?
  • 4- What have you learned?

    This week made me realise more about project management and timeline as I had a hopeful plan at first that everything will work as expected. But I had to have a risk plan and add more time for failures and non-working components.