Open Source Hardware
Join the Open Hardware Makers program
The call for applications for the second cohort of the Open Hardware Makers program is now open!
Global Research Equity
Let’s create a globally inclusive dialogue on Open Science Hardware (OSH) standards
“Hardware is a vital part of experiments process and advances in instrumentation have been central to scientific revolutions by expanding observations beyond standard human senses.” But making hardware and especially sharing hardware is neither an easy nor a recognized task in academia. In order to tackle this issue, some of us started a Research Data Alliance (RDA) interest group.
Conversations (podcast)
Open Hardware Makers – A conversation with Julieta Arancio, Alex Kutschera, and André Maia Chagas
Julieta Arancio, Alex Kutschera and André Maia Chagas share details about their mentorship program for Open Hardware projects.
Open Source Hardware
Survey: Certification for open source hardware designs under peer-review
Journals that publish Open Source Hardware designs have different requirements for the documentation that goes together with the paper being published.
Knowledge Transfer
Low-cost Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) kit to enhance COVID testing capacity in Sri Lanka
Aravinth Panch, A2P team member and co-founder of DreamSpace Academy in Batticaloa, helped Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTEC) Colombo to develop a rapid test kit for COVID-19 as reported in newspapers in Sri Lanka.
COVID-19
Day 8: Leveraging Open Hardware to Alleviate the Burden of COVID-19 on Global Health Systems
Maia Chagas, A.; Molloy, J.; Prieto Godino, L.; Baden, T. Leveraging Open Hardware to Alleviate the Burden of COVID-19 on Global Health Systems. Preprints2020, 2020030362 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202003.0362.v1). Abstract With the current rapid spread of COVID-19, global health systems are increasingly overburdened by the sheer number of people that need diagnosis, Read more…
Open Science
A Case for Open Science Hardware
Havemann, Johanna. (2019, February). A Case for Open Science Hardware. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2564076