Invention, Intellectual Property and Income

  • Dissemination Plan for my final project
  • Future Possibilities and Probabilities
  • Upload a summary slide in PNG and a one minute video(1080p MP4)


    • 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

  • STEM educators looking for hands-on tools to teach aerodynamics and fluid mechanics

  • Students and hobbyists interested in physics or engineering

  • Makers and Fab Lab users who want to experiment with airflow and design

    • How I Will Share the Project

  • I am publishing my full documentation—including design files, CAD models, electronics schematics, and assembly instructions—on my Fab Academy website.

  • All files will be made publicly available and downloadable, so others can easily replicate or modify the design.

  • the source code and all related files to a GitHub repository under an open-source license (such as MIT or Creative Commons BY-SA). This will allow others to contribute improvements or adaptations

  • I plan to showcase the wind tunnel at my local Fab Lab and potentially run a small workshop or demo for students or educators. This will help people understand how to use and build the system.

  • If possible, I may write a tutorial or article for educational platforms like Instructables, Hackaday.io, or similar websites where hands-on STEM tools are appreciated.

  • Embed a one minute video summary of my final project and share my poster, so that anyone can share it with anyone else.

    • 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.

    Summary Slide

    Final Project Video