Invention, Intellectual Property and Income
End of an Adventure
As we finally are coming to an end of Fab Academy this being the last week, I would like to thank everyone who has made this experience possible for me to take part and join a long list of Fab Academy students world wide. The past months have pushed me to my limits and finding even new ones. So a specail thank to my friends who help me along the way! Also a thank you to Ahmed our instructor here in Kamp-Lintfort and the support of my team mates Leen and Mika I do not know if I would have made it this far without them. I learned a lot about many new things and a great deal more about myself. I am really grateful to have had this experience am looking forward to having many more new challenges.
Dissemination
My final project, is a desktop sized educational wind tunnel designed to teach aerodynamics testing and visualization more accessible to students, educators, and makers alike. Wind tunnel are expensive and to large to fit in a classroom and can not travel to Educational schools and are complex in design. I wanted design a wind tunnel that is affordable, reasonably sized and could be made using digital fabrication tools. To share this project and maximize its educational impact, I plan to disseminate it in several ways:
primary audience
How I Will Share the Project
Future Plans
While the current version of the desktop wind tunnel has achieved its basic goals and is fully functional, there
are several areas where I see potential improvements for the future. Thing like the the honeycomb (air-strainer) could
potential befit from having more meshes to reduce the turbulence in the tunnel, it could stabilize the air further. There are also plans
to add a signal load cell that can read lift and drag at the same time. Even writing a better interface (GUI) to run the
wind tunnel, maybe a web based one.
Also looking at refining the tunnel to be more transport friendly, as currently it is not very light to carry around. It is modular
making the tunnel easy to assemble and dismantle in minutes. I’d like to collaborate with other Fab Labs or educators who want to use
or adapt the wind tunnel, and collect feedback to improve the design through real world classroom use and experience.
By sharing this first version openly, I hope others can help test, adapt, and improve it.
I see this project not just as a final assignment, but as the beginning of a potentially valuable educational tool that could
evolve with community input and maybe even a product that can be bought as kit for educational prepossess.