Assignment:


Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income:

Creative Commons License
MusInk 2D by Luiz H H Bueno is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License was my option for this version of MusInk 2D. This machine was built upon open source projects. It would feel weird to close source.


"To open, or not to open (Source)?!".
At the In3Dustry fair in Barcelona, I've watched a talk from the people of Wevolver and some extra good Makers. They came accross this topic. Most of them started open sourcing, and at some point realized they would not be able to continue.
They mentioned Ultimaker 3D printers. Their files are there, you can download them. But there's no manual on how to assemble, build your Ultimaker. They opened their files, you have access, but this is not a How do assemble your Ultimaker from A to Z kit-manual.
And why would it be if their goal is to sell 3D printers?


I have paralel projects where I'll sell machines. Kits, completely opened, some more closed, and here I realized I want to sell my service.
MusInk_2D is my machine. There's a paternal bond there. I want to open it to the world. Not to the whole world to make such a machine, but that interested people would contact me to decide if I want it to or not. Probably more to Artistic venues, or Events, companies, and so on. I could also provide this service to a physical person. But this right here is not yet the version that I'll close source. This version was built upon a combination of open source projects. Further on, I'll get to the point where I'll have MusInk completely refurbished, rebuilt from scratch. That machine I'll develop as my Thesis for my "Information and Communication Design" Bachelor (2017).

Income:
How to create income? As a service, the machine will be rented and charged per M², with a minimum price in case of far away events/venues/clients.
There's the idea even of opening the project to some limited number of people, that will become partners, helping develop further MusInks and provide themselves the service elsewhere in some kind of networking. I'm also "planning to be surprized".