Week 18: Invention, Intellectual Property and Income ¶

Created a dissemination plan for your final project.¶

Outlined future possibilities and described how to make them probabilities.¶

While the current direction of the internal mechanical parts is highly effective due to the unibody construction, the outer casing requires modification. Specifically, I need to reduce its overall size, improve its aerodynamics, and isolate the parachute chamber. Additionally, integrating a TPU or rubber rim will mitigate vibrations, stabilize device positioning onto the drone, and maximize shock absorption. Finally, I plan to redesign the parachute deployment mechanism to significantly increase system reliability.

What tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?¶

The core functionality is complete. The only remaining task is to securely integrate mounting straps into the case body to ensure reliable attachment to the drone.

What’s working? What’s not?¶

Despite the device’s minimal component count and simple design, it delivers its expected output. I can confidently say that every part of it is working exactly as intended.

What questions need to be resolved?¶

Planned what will happen when?¶

What have you learned?¶

If I could I would have chosen to skip this question, it seems too abstract to have a definite answer. What technical skills have I learned, or maybe soft skills instead…?

I remember throughout the first week, cannot recall who, but someone said that FabAcademy is about time management. I cannot say I completely agree with it, and cannot comfirm that I had managed my time correctly. But instead, I have tried improving the skills I am to hunt for life – resilience, learning to learn, being able to do [not make] anything myself, and several other peculiar things that words cannot not seem to describe…

When I was little, about 6 years old, at home I remember I found a swiss army knife. It had great allure, visible scratches on its red handle, and patin on its tools. I remember when I had first opened one of its blades I was scared of it snapping a finger of mine off. Since then I have used it countless times. I still have it with me, and even brought it with me to Dilijan.

What’s my point? I love how versatile it is! I have used that knife’s functionality as my life’s motto, hence me wanting to be able to do anything myself. And with the same motto I had chosen to study computer science for my bachelors – for its math, programming, and resourcefulness.

I also remember how much excitment, liveliness, and eureka moments I have had throughout the AgriTech incubation program I participated in… There I had probably revoked all the knowledge I had in me at the time, and I loved having tasted that sence of entreprenurial unpredictability.

So… What have I learned? I have learned how to function more like a swiss army knife, have broaden my set of skills, and to some extent I had come closer to the ideology I had come up for myself!

Week 18: Invention, Intellectual Property and Income¶