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.
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:
The options from the website are below.
you can also add meta data like your name and other info to embed into the license.
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.
This project will be available in the repository of Fab Academy 2016 and will include further improvements wherever possible.