This week assignment was:
- develop a plan for dissemination of your final project
- prepare a summary slide (presentation.png, 1280x1024) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB) in your root directory.
After five months of FabAcademy we learned a lot of different thing and the amount of knowledge generated on those projects are incredible! However, all these knowledge needs to be somehow protected.
From 3D models designs, through electronics boards design until the software that I had developed I used mostly Open Source software that already has some kind of intellectual property rules that I do not know very much, but how I was gifted by those open source software I want also make all my developments here open source.
However, open-source does not means that anyone can come here to my webpage, copy my work and just tell that is theirs and start to sell it. Because of that I need to make some protection, and I can do that by adding a copyright symbol '©'. It is a simple step but that kind of ensure that anyone who copies my work make a fair-use of it, I mean you can get my work, modify as you want or need, but if someone wants to sell it after all, then I need to know.
Other important thing is that mostly of the content in this website I got also from other sources that I found on internet, but I tried to reference them by adding some links to those pages.
Following this initiative, I checked some last years students assignment on this same subject, and the one that I found most interesting is available on Mariona A. Ciller webpage, so I my dissemination plan will be very similar to her. You can check her webpage here: http://fabacademy.org/archives/2015/eu/students/aloy_ciller.mariona/p/module-seventeen.html
Lasernodes is a Open Source electronic project design designed and developed by Siron Cesar Pacheco Pereira during Fab Academy 2016 Classes, at AS220, Providence-RI, USA. It is conceived as a electronic arts product that will allow the user to create a custom LED screen that you can write or drawn just using a Laser pointer as a pen. The project can be scalable to make screens as big as 127 nodes. Since the Lasernod is all available on the Fab Academy website the need for intellectual property or copyright is not at the moment existent.
Therfore, the project will be covered with a Fab Lab license, under the name LaserNodes. The income of this project will come from selling the small nodes as well as the workshops to create the LaserNodes at Fab Labs.
By now it is only a prototype, so the next steps would be to manufacture the electronic boards to get more reliability on the product. After that Kikstarter is a natural progression for LaserNodes to be able to build it in scale.