Optical tape sensor
Venture Category: Scientific Instruments
Community: Sensorica
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Objectives
Objectives
Develop and commercialize an open source optical bending sensor. Two types are in development:
Description
Description
Applications
Applications
Robotics: flexible robot limbs, feedback control of motion and increased precision and efficiency
Structures: monitoring flexing of large structures
Contents
Contents
Communication and coordination
Communication and coordination
Communication channels
Communication channels
Messaging: ...
Social media: ...
Coordination tools
Coordination tools
Shared calendar
Planning
Planning
Status: dormant - see Project news
Short-term goals
Build directional sensor prototype based on 1mm PMMA - DONE!
Build low-cost tape sensor prototype - DONE!
Outreach campaign for the low-cost tape sensor in progress
Long-term goals
Build applications in: robotics, structure monitoring and smart sports equipment.
Create first hockey stick prototype
Needs
Optical and mechanical engineering
Notes
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Low cost tape sensor analysis
Rodrigo's doc and spreadsheet.
Milestones
Milestones
Documentation repository
Documentation repository
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Low cost tape sensor
Low cost tape sensor
Directional tape sensor
Directional tape sensor
Incentives
Incentives
Describe all layers of incentives...
Economic model
Economic model
The short-term economic model for this venture is based mostly on public funding and crowdfunding.
The long-term economic model for this venture is built around open innovation and distributed manufacturing (DIY).
In short, for the long run, we're geared towards providing:
DIY kits (can be transactional kit sales) that provide required vitamins (non-digitally manufactured components) to build a particular tool (Zimmermann, 2014; Gibney, 2016).
Specialty parts / components, hard-to-find, custom (ex. BackYard Brains or OpenQCM both sell the most specialized and hardest to source components for their respective open hardware tools).
Help with calibrating and validating (scientific) hardware (can be transactional service) to provide security to prosumers who build their own tools. This provides prosumers with the confidence that their measurements or functionality are acceptably reproducible, accurate and precise.
Education / Training (ex. Open Source Ecology), include support. This can also follow the consulting business model (Fjelsted et al., 2012).
Ecosystem services: provide trust, validation, discoverability, help, a place to discuss and collaborate, etc.
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Organizational context
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Custodian: ...
Exchange firm: ...
Agreements
Agreements
Custodian Agreement [provide link]
Exchange Firm Agreement [provide link]
Venture Governance Template [provide link]
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