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How to Be an
Inventor
Instructor: Drew Boyd
Week 1
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What We Are Going to Learn
• Five Tools to Create New Inventions
• Famous Inventors• Patents• How to Use a Lab Book
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How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a problem…
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How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a problem…
then…..
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How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a problem…
then…..
• Find a Solution
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What are the parts of a TV?
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1. Screen
What are the parts of a TV?
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1. Screen
2. Remote Control
3. Volume
4. Channel
5. Speaker
6. Box
7. Plug
What are the parts of a TV?
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You now have a “virtual TV”
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You now have a “virtual TV”
Who would use a “screenless” TV?
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First Tool: Reduction
1. Find a product
2. List all of its parts
3. Take a part away
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
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Kids Can Be Inventors!
• Kathryn Gregory• Age 10• Invented the
“Wristies”• Kids Hall of Fame in
1997
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Your Lab Book
• Always write down your ideas in the LAB BOOK.
• For each idea:– Date– Name of the idea– Describe the idea– Tell how you got the idea– Draw a picture of the idea– List the parts– Sign your name– Always write in ink, not pencil
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Next Week
•Bring in a small toy or other product from home.
•We will practice REDUCTION.•We will learn another tool.
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How to Be an
Inventor
Instructor: Drew Boyd
Week 2
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Why are you taking this class?
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Why are you taking this class?
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Review
•The right way to invent: find solutions, then find problems
•First Tool: Reduction•How to Use a Lab Book
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How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a problem…
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How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a problem…
then…..
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How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a problem…
then…..
• Find a Solution
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How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a problem…
then…..
• Find a Solution
This is backwards!!!
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Pencil Sharpener
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What are the parts of a TV?
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1. Screen
2. Remote Control
3. Volume
4. Channel
5. Speaker
6. Box
7. Plug
What are the parts of a TV?
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Reduce by taking away the screen
Who would use a “screenless” TV?
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First Tool: Reduction
1. Find a product
2. List all of its parts
3. Take a part away
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
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Second Tool: Replacement
1. Find a product and list all of its parts
2. Take a part away
3. REPLACE the part with something
else
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
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Famous Inventors
• K.K. Gregory
• Ben Franklin
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
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Kids Can Be Inventors!
• Kathryn Gregory• Age 10• Invented the
“Wristies”• Kids Hall of Fame in
1997
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Ben Franklin
• Bifocal glasses
• Lightening rod
• Franklin stove
• Many more!
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Walt Disney
• Multiplane camera
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Your Lab Book
• Always write down your ideas in the LAB BOOK.
• For each idea:– Date– Name of the idea– Describe the idea– Tell how you got the idea– Draw a picture of the idea– List the parts– Sign your name– Always write in ink, not pencil
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How to Be an
Inventor
Instructor: Drew Boyd
Week 3
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What does it take to be an Inventor?
• Smart? Creative?
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What does it take to be an Inventor?
• Smart? Creative? No!!!
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What does it take to be an Inventor?
• Smart? Creative? No!!!• You need to be:
– Observant– Curious– Disciplined– Persistent– Question asker– See possibilities
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Agenda
•Review– Second Tool: Replacement– Lab Books
•Third Tool: Multiplication•Introduction to PATENTS
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How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a Solution…
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How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a Solution…
then…..
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How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a Solution…
then…..
• Find a Problem
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Don’t Invent Things Like This!
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Review Lab Books
•Who has an idea or an invention from their Lab Book that they want to share?
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Second Tool: Replacement
1. Find a product and list all of its parts
2. Take a part away
3. REPLACE the part with something
else
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
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1. Screen
2. Remote Control
3. Volume
4. Channel
5. Speaker
6. Box
7. Plug
Take away the screen…
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And REPLACE it with what?
• Computer screen
• Projector
• Head mounted
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Examples
• Stapler “Tape-ler”• Ice Skate Roller Blade
• Coke Can Twist Top Can
• Phone Cradle Belt Phone
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Third Tool: Multiplication
1. Find a product and list all of its parts
2. Multiply, or create a copy of one of
the parts
3. Change the multiplied component in
some way
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
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Example: Multiply a Part
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“Picture-in-Picture” TV
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Patents
• A patent is a property right
• Granted by the Government
• Excludes others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention
• How? Apply to the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office (USTPO)
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Patent Examples
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Patent Examples
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Patent Examples
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Patent Examples
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Next Week
•Review all the tools so far
•Review your LAB BOOKS– Invent something!!
•Learn a new tool•Practice!
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How to Be an
Inventor
Instructor: Drew Boyd
Week 4
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Agenda
• Review– Lab Books– Third Tool: Multiplication
• Fourth Tool: Feature Dependency• More PATENTS
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Review Lab Books
•Who has an idea or an invention from their Lab Book that they want to share?
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Third Tool: Multiplication
1. Find a product and list all of its parts
2. Multiply, or create a copy of one of
the parts
3. Change the multiplied component in
some way
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
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Example: Multiply a Part
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“Picture-in-Picture” TV
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Fourth Tool: Feature Dependency
1. Find a product and list all of its features
(NOT parts).
2. Take one feature and list it beside the
name of all the other features
3. Pretend that one feature changes when
something about the other feature
changes
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
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60-Second Toothbrush
Features:
• Rotating brushes
1. Time
2. Length
3. Width
4. Color
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Traffic Light
Features:
• Light color
1. Time
2. Car’s Waiting
3. Car’s Moving
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Scooter
Features:
• Height
1. Wheel Size
2. Speed
3. Road Smoothness
4. Person’s height
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Patents
• A patent is a property right
• Granted by the Government
• Excludes others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention
• How? Apply to the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office (USTPO)
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Patent Examples
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Patent Examples
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Patent Examples
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Patent Examples
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Finger Mounted Toothbrush
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Yoyo
• Inventor: Donald Duncan
• Sold over 100 million
• He also invented the:
• Eskimo Pie
• Good Humor Ice Cream Truck
• Parking Meters
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Next Week
•Review all the tools so far
•Invention Workshop•Surprise!
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How to Be an
Inventor
Instructor: Drew Boyd
Week 5
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You are ALL inventors!
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Agenda
•Review all Tools
•Invention Workshop
•Surprise!
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First Tool: Reduction
1. Find a product
2. List all of its parts
3. Take a part away
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
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Second Tool: Replacement
1. Find a product and list all of its parts
2. Take a part away
3. REPLACE the part with something
else
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
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Third Tool: Multiplication
1. Find a product and list all of its parts
2. Multiply, or create a copy of one of
the parts
3. Change the multiplied component in
some way
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
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Fourth Tool: Feature Dependency
1. Find a product and list all of its features
(NOT parts).
2. Take one feature and list it beside the
name of all the other features
3. Pretend that one feature changes when
something about the other feature
changes
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
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Invention Workshop
1. Use all of your tools
2. Create several good
ideas
3. Draw the best one
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Graduation
“You are hereby empowered to go out
a invent awesome new products for the
betterment of all mankind.”
