Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

Invention

This project does not involve the creation of a new idea but a new way of implementing it. There are some very basic shot and drink making machine that the maker’s community has created and also commercial versions that cost thousands of dollars.  I wanted to make a cheap expandable machine that people can use and make better.   Right now i am making just a single shot dispenser but i do have plans to make it a modular design and add some type of network to it so more and more modules can be added to make different drinks.

Intellectual Property

 I have no commercial purposes with this project also seeing that the Fab Academy is about sharing and learning, if someone wants to do it, they can make improvements to the final product.  That is the great advantage of open source, perhaps within a couple of years someone can redo this Fab Bar with added functionality and design much better than I did.  But I think you have to protect the design from the commercialization of third parties, which could interfere with the development of a collaborative project.  The two licenses I was looking at is the MIT license and the creative commons license.  The MIT license is a very nice open source license that will allow anybody to copy and make money from the design but protects the original author from liability. The other license is the creative commons and they have a lot of different types from very open to open but has some restrictions.  This license allows people to use and modify the project but restricts them from selling and making money.  So I think the best option is to create a creative commons license, through its page located here creativecommons.org/choose/ I set the desired options, and the result is as follows:

So my results are a Creative commons Non-Commercial share alike international that allows you use and modify the work as long as the original author is given credit and does not make money on it.  

The options from the website are below.

you can also add meta data like your name and other info to embed into the license.

Income

As for the income, it really doesn't have any sense because of the CC License.  If I did not choose the Creavite Commons license i think i may have went with the MIT so that I could possibly sell and let other people modify and make money.  If  and when I add the networking and graphical user interface I may choose this license.  There may be some interest in people buying this as it is cheeaper than other and if I could make it for less than $75 I think there could be a market.  

Sharing of the final project

This project will be available in the repository of Fab Academy 2016 and will include further improvements wherever possible.

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