19. Invention, Intellectual Property and Income¶
Assignments and Assessment this week¶
- Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.
- Complete your final project, tracking your progress
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
Have you answered these questions?¶
- Created a dissemination plan for your final project
- Outlined future possibilities and described how to make them probabilities
- What tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?
- What’s working? what’s not?
- What questions need to be resolved?
- Planned what will happen when?
- What have you learned?
Concept of Production¶
My final project was developed with the concept of “combining existing mass-produced technologies to create user-friendly and convenient equipment for ourselves.” Through this work, I hope to further develop the culture of DIY equipment by sharing fundamental technical information.
A plan for disseminating of the final project¶
Furthermore, if I were to sell this work, the cost would be high due to my lack of mass production facilities, making it difficult to widely distribute at a commercially viable price. Also, I cannot assume any responsibility for problems that may arise during use, nor can I provide any guarantees.
Regarding the License¶
Therefore, to resolve these issues and allow more people to utilize the technology, I have decided to release this work under CC0 1.0
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We believe this will make it easier for many people to build devices using DMX signals, thereby helping to popularize DIY devices.
Final Project Task List¶
That week, we were rushing to complete the monitoring device. Although the project was running slightly behind schedule, we managed to see a path to finishing it.
| Category | Task Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Device 1: Input & Output | Unit testing for all input components (Fader, Switch, Encoder) | Done |
| Verification of DMX signal output | Done | |
| Enclosure 3D printing | Done | |
| PCB design and final circuit fabrication | Done | |
| Final assembly and component integration | Done | |
| Device 2: Monitoring | Basic DMX input signal verification | Done |
| TFT/LCD monitor functional testing | Done | |
| Development of 512ch bar graph rendering engine | In Progress | |
| Enclosure design and fabrication | Scheduled | |
| Circuit fabrication including DMX Thru port | In Progress | |
| Device 3: LED Output | Basic DMX input signal verification | Done |
| Individual NeoPixel strip illumination test | Done | |
| Implementation of DMX-to-LED mapping logic | Done | |
| Enclosure design and fabrication | Done | |
| Final circuit fabrication and assembly | Done | |
| Common / Review | Full system integration and stress testing | Scheduled |
| Graded Review meeting with instructors | In Progress | |
| Final documentation and video demonstration | In Progress |
gantt
title Final Project Timeline (Updated: 2026-05-24)
dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD
axisFormat %m/%d
tickInterval 1week
section Device 1: I/O
Unit Testing (Inputs/DMX) :done, d1_1, 2024-04-15, 10d
Enclosure 3D Print :done, d1_2, 2024-04-25, 3d
PCB Design & Fabrication :done, d1_3, 2024-04-28, 10d
Final Assembly :done, d1_4, after d1_3, 5d
section Device 2: Monitor
DMX Input Verification :done, d2_1, 2024-04-20, 5d
TFT/LCD Functional Test :done, d2_2, 2024-05-10, 4d
Rendering Engine Dev :active, d2_3, after d2_2, 4d
Enclosure Design & Fab :d2_4, after d2_3, 5d
Circuit Build (DMX Thru) :active, d2_5, 2024-05-15, 7d
section Device 3: LED
DMX & NeoPixel Basic Test :done, d3_1, 2024-04-25, 5d
DMX-to-LED Mapping Logic :done, d3_2, 2024-05-01, 7d
Enclosure Design & Fab :done, d3_3, 2024-05-08, 6d
Final Circuit & Assembly :done, d3_4, after d3_3, 5d
section Common / Review
System Integration Test :crit, 2024-05-22, 7d
Graded Review (In Progress) :active, 2024-05-28, 1d
Documentation & Video Demo :active, 2024-05-25, 6d
Project Completion :milestone, 2024-05-31, 0d