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Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income


This week we were tasked with an individual set of activities. For our individual activities this week we were tasked with developing a plan for dissemination of our final projects.

This week, we are also tasked with completing our final project and tracking our progress.

Finally, we were tasked with answering some questions regarding the progress of our final project.

Week 19

Check List

This week's project requirements:

    Individual Assignment:

  • Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.
  • Complete your final project, tracking your progress

    Images/Files:

  • Include your original design files
    • Properly compress or use a zip folder if needed
    • Include hero shots of your results

Resources and Helpful Links

Learning Outcomes

  • Develop a plan to share your work
  • Formulate future opportunities and/or development for your final project
  • Summarise and communicate the essence of your project development

Introduction


This week we were tasked with developing a plan for dissemination of our final projects and documenting our final project progress.

We were also tasked with answering the following questions regarding the progress of our final project.

License Choice and Dissemination Process


What license type have I chosen for my project?


The ball joint doll community has a strong culture of respecting artists and thier works. The idea of a recast, or a copy of an original artist's work, is generally frowned upon in the community and is considered a form of theft. After all of the design work I have put into Triss, I have decided that I want to work with a reputable overseas manufacturer to produce a small batch of my doll, minus the electronics. I also have some interest from the local doll community in purchasing a possible non electronic version of my doll if I were to produce a small batch of them.

With this in mind, I have decided to use one of the more protective creartive commons license for the ball jointed doll design files I created. The license I choose is:
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

      Explanation of this license type:


    • CC: Creative Commons
    • BY: Must Credit Me
    • NC: Non Commercial Use Only
    • ND: No Derivative Works or Distributing modified versions.

This license allows people to view my work, learn from it, and share it with others, but they cannot modify or profit off of my design.

Dissemination Plan


My final project documentation will be published through my Fab Academy website and on my Git repository. My documentation will include design decisions, development process, electronics schematics, early versions of my CAD models, and the software and code used to developed my project. The intentions of my project and my weekly documentation is to contribute to the maker and educational communities by sharing the development process and technical solutions used throughout the project while mianting my dolls design integrity and protecting my work.

My robot, Triss, is an original character designed by me, that I extensivley developed during this process. I created the character, I created her story, I gaver her a name and a way to learn her name, and I created her a personality. I also created my own pixel art and animations to go along side the physical version of Triss as a potential way to share her with others. With this in mind, I plan to protect the integrity of my design and the character I created by using the license outlined above for my design files. This allows others to view and learn from the project while preventing unauthorized commercial reproduction, modification, or redistribution of my design.

Possible future dissemination may include presentaions of the doll at conventions and doll shows, educational presentations to explain the tools and software I learned and used, and potential collaboration with manufacturers for commercial production.

Project Progress Question 1


What tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?


      Completed Tasks


    • Updated overall robot body size, updated chest to accomidate future batteries, updated upper body channels to accomidate usb wire, updated head to accomidate the screen and components.
    • 3D printed all of the new robot pieces, and assembled the full size robot body.
    • Designed the charging chair for laser cutting.
    • Designed the Brain and sensor boards.
    • Designed the entire emotion and animation system.
    • Ported over the main portion of the robot face and animation code for at least one sensor.
    • Confirmed communication between the brain board, the screen board, and a push button.
    • Created a training model and trained a custom wake word.
    • Created a wakeword detection model and successfully tested my wakeword.

      Remaining Tasks


    • Laser cut and assemble the charging chair.
    • Wire in magnetic charging pins into the assembled chair.
    • Mill and solder the brain and sensor boards.
    • Port over the rest of the robot face and animation code for the remaining sensors and features.
    • Reconfirm communication and interaction between the screen, brain, and sensors after the boards are milled and soldered.
    • Build in the wakeword command into the robot brain.

Project Progress Question 2


What's working? what's not?


      What's Working


    • Screen and screen animations are working as expected minus a slight flicker in the pupil of the robot eye which I am working on resolving.
    • Communication between the brain board and the screen board are working as expected for at least one animation effect.
    • A test of the magnetic pogo pins for the charging system worked as expected on a small scale.
    • The 3D printed robot pieces are assembling correctly.
    • The wakeword detection model is working correctly when run through the model detection program.

      What's Not Working


    • The wakeword detection is not fully integrated into the screen and brain board yet, so the wakeword is only partially working on the robot.
    • The screen board is displaying artifacts during certain animation effects.
    • The magnets for the pogo pins are difficult to solder into the body of the robot and are not currently securely attached.

Project Progress Question 3


What questions need to be resolved?



    • How can I resolve the flickering in the pupil of the robot eye?
    • How can I best integrate the wakeword detection into the robot brain?
    • Will the charging system work reliably once the magnets are securely attached and the chair is fully assembled?
    • Do I have enough time to complete the remaining tasks before the final project deadline?

Project Progress Question 4


What will happen when?



    • 6/1 - 6/3: Milling and soldering the brain and sensor boards.
    • 6/1: Laser cutting the charging chair.
    • 6/2: Assembling the laser cut pieces of the charging chair.
    • 6/3: Attaching the magnets for the pogo pins onto the chair and robot body
    • 6/1 - 6/7: Porting over more of the robot face and animation code for the remaining sensors and features.
    • 6/4: Redesinging the inside of the robot head to accomidate the screen, brain board, and components.
    • 6/5: Final assembly of the robot head and body.
    • 6/6 - 6/9: Final testing and debugging of the robot.
    • 6/8: Packaging design.
    • 6/1 - 6/9: Update final project slide and video as different components are completed and integrated.

Project Progress Question 5



What have you learned?


I have learned more than I could possible beging to explain! New machines, new tools, new proccesses, new materials, new software, and new techniques. I experienced new challenges that I didn't expect, learned of an allergy to resin that I didn't know I had, learned from my failures and mistakes, and so much more.