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Introduction

My name is Dimitar. I am a super senior in Computer Science with a Math minor.

Blog Six      10/08/13

Looking for missing points on the penrose triangle model article

Justin mentions the problems with not having patents on some complicated piece of technology that took a lot of effort money to develop.

Brandon, Madeline and Dimitri give good reasoning that copyrighting something with Creative Commons, gives the idea to the community and sort of tells them to freely collaborate and improve on it. There is also the added protection of somebody else "stealing" the idea, copyright it themselves and gain profit on the original creator's back.

Ian Raises the issue with copyrights and that they only apply to one country.

Blog Five    10/07/13

Looking for patented and copyrighted objects

None of my Thingiverse objects are copyrighted or patented, but the ones below provide an interesting discussion.

The Coral Cuffs are not very useful and unable to be patented. However, it should be mentioned that they are likely not copyrighted either. They could be put in the category of jewelry or wearable art, which is not copyright protected.

The Octocat was inspired by GitHub logo and since there is little resemblance, there will be no copyright infringement for inspiration. However, as a separate work of art it would be protected by copyright laws.

The most obvious case of a copyrighted material is the Raspberry Pi logo on the Raspberry Pi Case However, due to the Open Sourced nature of the Raspberry Pi and the purpose of the object it should not cause a legal problem.

Looking through my classmates blogs I found a couple of cases of copyrights.

This sculpture from Tom Stewart seems to be an exact replica of a real sculpture.

The object that Brandon Tunkel found a marker from the EA's game Dead Space, so it is copyrighted.

The Yoda head from Quinn Carpenter is definitely copyrighted... by Disney...

I think that nowadays copyrights and patents create much more problems than solving, helping or protecting the creator. Human progress is made by copying and improving others' designs, thoughts and methods. The only people affected by copyrights are big, lobbying corporations. Furthermore, 70 Years after the death of the creator is a ridiculous amount of time for something to be remain copyrighted, and patents these days are mostly used to protect companies from "patent trolls." This leads me to the answer of the question as why one might be interested in the "licensing of non-copyrightable files." That is a difficult question to answer, but as long as one is not primarily looking for personal gain, there should be no patent. A good example of that is a piece of 3D printed optical illusion.

I think the author of this article is naive, because he obviously does not care or understand copyright practices. Proof of that is the image that he uses in the article. A simple search shows that it is not made by the author, hence copyrighted, and in addition no source is given for it. Ironic.

Blog Four   09/25/13

Comments regarding the Mechatronics: Arduino & RepRap - Creating Wealth by Giving it Away video.

The video lecture is about Arduino, RepRap and the nature of Open Source projects. Open Source is great for any product that requires rapid innovation and fresh flow of ideas. That is easily accomplished by having the source code or design blueprints available for anyone to see, comment and modify to suit their needs. Open source is a very non-conventional business model, but non the less successful. Giving a product for free almost instantly creates a huge market. One way to make profit is by people who need to maintain or adapt the given product and provide such services for a fee.

The Arduino board is an open source hardware platform that is currently has projects from garden sprinklers to orbiting satellites. A lot of innovation is being done by "ordinary people" all because it is a free platform for anyone to use.

The other project mentioned is the RepRap 3D printer. Making the printer open source allows the RepRap community to improve upon the design and then replicate it in real life. Very similar to natural evolution.

As a conclusion I would like to add that current licensing laws only benefit single individuals and need to be changed in order to once again promote the well being of humans.

Blog responses

Following the suggestion from Abbie Letts, I fixed the formatting and added a bit more content to my Blog One post. I would like to make a suggestion to Abbie Letts to have her Main page be the actual Class Blog, instead of having to click the links to find it, as it is the current and most relevant content.

Crosby Owens suggested for me to put the table vertical, but I believe that would open up too much white space. I would suggest to him to put his contact information at the bottom. Otherwise, it is a very well maintained blog.

Joseph Benjamin commented positively on my Blog One and I would like to say that I also like his blog. An improvement could be to add a bit of personal/contact information to his page.

Blog Three 09/16/13

Good Blogs Searching

I really like the blog of Matt Digel . I think Matt has picked out some interesting prints and added good commentary to them. I think his choice of items solve problems that I did not think existed, like the Ice Cube Tray Holder . However, the empty content of the blogs is not needed and defeats the purpose, so they should be removed altogether.

Blog Two    09/11/13

3D Printer and 3D Scanner In One Unit

The convergence of both technologies into one working unit will spark a new age in custom design. Personally designing and building something will not require years of training and work with a given material. I imagine the following model: Designing the dimensions and shape of the piece from Play-Doh. Then scanning and improving it using a piece of software. Finally, printing it out. Sounds easy and it should be. I believe there are very few negatives for that model, and I believe technology is bound to go in that direction.

Since plastic is very hard to dispose of, here is a crazy idea about the future to end with. How about a 3D printer that takes in as filament recycled plastic, or better still, has a bin on top that would recycle the plastic itself. Throw away trash .... *bzzt-bzzt* ... get a new item.

Blog One    09/04/13

A list if interesting objects from Thingiverse

Something Beautiful Coral Cuffs with Voronoi patterns that show a coral structure. Math and art fusion!	Something Strange Octocat is based on the GitHub's logo, but it is a tiny bit more creepy.	Something Useless Banana Nunchucks that are not going to help you in a fight nor will keep bananas fresh.	Something Useful Human Hand Bones - Thumb could be very a good prosthetic one day.	Raspberry Pi Case The Raspberry Super-Pi Case with mounting ears is extremely useful.