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Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

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Individual assignment:

Develop a plan to share your work:

My project is for me to have fun, and share the wonder of science. One day I may make money selling items from my show, but the table and cabinet will act as a prop. I could sell premade magic tables. My files will be avaiable through GitLab. Although I could protect my pcb design files, I have little hope in finding out if anyone copys them. I delibratly made my circuits as simple as possible, so other people can probably create something similar should they want to.

I will licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license, which, "enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only ifattribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must use the same license for modified material. CC BY-NC-SA includes the following elements:

BY Credit must be given to you, the creator. NC Only noncommercial use of your work is permitted. Noncommercial means not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation. SA Adaptations must be shared under the same terms." (From Creativecommons.org)

I plan on continuing to do magic shows for my kids, Girl Scouts, school events, my friends, halloween shows, and one day have a booth at the Renaissance Festival! Should anyone be interested in my designs, I will direct them to my GitLab pages. I would love to run a class on making small magical items using my modular pcb designs, probably for an engineering Girl Scout badge or summer camp.

Formulate future opportunities and/or development for your final project

  • continue making more magical circuits to add to my display, and control with my table

  • fix fusion files for cabinet, cut with cnc machine, assemble, decorate

  • make a user interface connected to a tablet to allow participants to tailor the magical experiences

  • create Fizzbit as an interactive animatronic familiar

  • wand store with explosions, falling items, confettii, bubbles, and a user interface

Summarise and communicate the essence of your project development

  • a chaotic, spinning rollercoaster that continues to spiral outward as I refine my performance, and learn about new electronic components and skills

What tasks have been completed?

  • PCB designs

switch

esp32-C6 Teacher

ATtiny412 node

  • Decorative table top with recesses for sensors, embedded leds, and wireless transmitter

Table top

What tasks remain?

  • mill final pcbs

  • solder pcbs

  • connect pcbs to inside of table top

  • create a back for the table top, and attach it

  • test programing

  • update documentation

What's working?

  • overall look is ok for prototype

  • circuits embedded into epoxy do work when connected to a breadboard

What's not working?

  • my last pcb teacher board had the incorrect placement of the through holes for the BSS138 bidirectional level shifter, and I decided to move the circuitry for the 2N3906 transistor switch to a separate board for a more modular design

  • my wood working skills are lacking, my sweetgum edge pieces covered the side of the plywood well, but is too thin for a 1/2" plywood bottom, and the connections are pretty bad

What questions need to be resolved?

  • how to make the bottom of my tabletop? lasercut 1/8"thick x 22" x 33" bottom with holes for the plug in and outlet to fead cables through to future cabinet base. Or cover with felt as suggested by a fab graduate.

Planned what will happen when?

to do

What have you learned?

  • Everything I have done is new to me except CorelDraw.