Invention intellectual property and income
Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project
The idea at the beginning is a table, I start to try something small,a lamp, to start my imagination. my aim is to make a digital forest, what I did right now is a unit, we can layering it, stack them together, to create a digital and growth nature.
Project use MIT License and welcome every body to contribuite.
The Pulse
MIT License
Copyright <2026> <Lin Zequan>
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- what tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?
The design verification of one unit has been completed. The combination of multiple units and the interactions between them have not yet been completed.
- what's working? what's not?
The mechanical structure, circuit and function are working.
- what questions need to be resolved?
The structure is not very stable. If it is used for a longer period of time, the skin will start to fall off.
- what will happen when?
I plan to use it as a home kit. And as an exhibit, it can assemble and then displaye in an exhibition or art space to verify the stability of long-term operation and the public interaction experience.
- what have you learned?
During the design process of the final project, I encountered many difficulties. For example, at the beginning of the mechanical design, I wasn't clear about the size control, so the resulting product ended up being too large. This led to issues such as insufficient torque from the servo motor in the electrical control part. When making the skin, we also ran into repeated failures with the molds and production methods. One thing I learned from this is that when facing problems, it's important to adjust your thinking and realize that if one approach doesn't work, you can change the implementation plan while still achieving the same goal.
When I started working on the final project, my thoughts were quite chaotic. The initial product was clumsy and not aesthetically pleasing. When the different parts were put together, it looked very strange. As a result, I got stuck.
One method I found helpful was communicating with LLM like Gemini. Thanks to the Fab process, which requires to document our ideas and process. I shared my initial thoughts, how it developed, and my expected goals with Gemini. Through continuous dialogue, Gemini helped extract feasible ideas and development directions from my thinking. In this way, the outcome of my reflections and the direction of progress became much clearer and more defined.
The most important thing is not to be afraid of failure, it helps you grow. After soldering the circuit board, none of the components were working, not even the simplest LED. At first, I thought I was done for, but I still had time to fix it. So I broke the work down into steps and progressed one by one: starting with the simple parts, then combining them and adding functions to test. After a few hours, all the functions were working. Don't give up.