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Gerrit Niezen, Parisa Eslambolchilar, Harold Thimbleby
Open-source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so anyone can study, modify, distribute, make and sell the design or the hardware based on that design. Some open-source hardware projects can potentially be used as active medical devices. The open-source approach offers a unique combination of…
André Maia Chagas
Many efforts are making science more open and accessible; they are mostly concentrated on issues that appear before and after experiments are performed: open access journals, open databases, and many other tools to increase reproducibility of science and access to information. However, these initiatives do not promote…
Aditya M. Medhi, Abhishek D. Patange, Sujit S. Pardeshi, R. Jegadeeshwaran + 1 more
'R. Jegadeeshwaran' 'Mustafa Kuntoğlu'] The movement for open-design focuses on the creation of machines, physical systems, and products using design information shared publicly. It consists of the development of systems incorporating open-source hardware and software which can be easily/freely customized and…
Felipe Machado, Norberto Malpica, Susana Borromeo, Talib Al-Ameri
Open source hardware for scientific equipment needs to provide source files and enough documentation to allow the study, replication and modification of the design. In addition, parametric modeling is encouraged in order to facilitate customization for other experiments. Parametric design using a solid modeling…
Michael Oellermann, Jolle W Jolles, Diego Ortiz, Rui Seabra + 3 more
Openly shared low-cost electronic hardware applications, known as open electronics, have sparked a new open-source movement, with much untapped potential to advance scientific research. Initially designed to appeal to electronic hobbyists, open electronics have formed a global “maker” community and are increasingly…
Ramon Farré, David Gozal, Viet-Nhung Nguyen, Joshua M. Pearce + 2 more
'Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan' 'Daryl Pritchard'] Respiratory diseases pose an increasing socio-economic burden worldwide given their high prevalence and their elevated morbidity and mortality. Medical devices play an important role in managing acute and chronic respiratory failure, including diagnosis, monitoring, and providing…
Jérémy Bonvoisin, Jenny Molloy, Martin Häuer, Tobias Wenzel
University of Bath, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bath, England; University of Cambridge, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge, England; Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK), Berlin, Germany; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Institute for…
Tobias Wenzel
Open hardware solutions are increasingly being chosen by researchers as a strategy to improve access to technology for cutting-edge biology research. The use of DIY technology is already widespread, particularly in countries with limited access to science funding, and is catalyzing the development of open-source…
Giorgio F. Signorini
One important goal in sustainability is making technologies available to the maximum possible number of individuals, and especially to those living in less developed areas (Goal 9 of SDG). However, the diffusion of technical knowledge is hindered by a number of factors, among which the Intellectual Property Rights…
Gagan Gupta, Tony Nowatzki, Vinay Gangadhar, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam
'Karthikeyan Sankaralingam'] Innovation in hardware is slowing due to rising costs of chip design and diminishing benefits from Moore's law and Dennard scaling. Software innovation, on the other hand, is flourishing, helped in good measure by a thriving open-source ecosystem. We believe that open source can similarly…
A. Sina Booeshaghi, Eduardo da Veiga Beltrame, Dylan Bannon, Jase Gehring + 1 more
The poseidon syringe pump and microscope system is an open source alternative to commercial systems. It costs less than $400 and can be assembled in under an hour using the instructions and source files available at https://pachterlab.github.io/poseidon. We describe the poseidon system and use it to illustrate design…
Luke P Miller
Bivalve molluscs have been the focus of behavioral and physiological studies for over a century, due in part to the relative ease with which their traits can be observed. The author reviews historical methods for monitoring behavior and physiology in bivalves, and how modern methods with electronic sensors can allow…
Nuñez Isaac, Matute Tamara, Herrera Roberto, Keymer Juan + 3 more
The advent of easy-to-use open source microcontrollers, off-the-shelf electronics and customizable manufacturing technologies has facilitated the development of inexpensive scientific devices and laboratory equipment. In this study, we describe an imaging system that integrates low-cost and open-source hardware…
Diego Lagos-Susaeta, Oriana Salazar, Juan A. Asenjo
DNA electrophoresis is a fundamental technique in molecular biology that allows the separation of DNA molecules up to ~50 Kbp. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis [PFGE] is a variation of the conventional DNA electrophoresis technique that allows the separation of very large DNA molecules up to ~10 Mbp. PFGE equipment is…
Tobias Wenzel
This article illustrates how open hardware solutions are implemented by researchers as a strategy to access technology for cutting-edge research. Specifically, it is discussed what kind of open technologies are most enabling in scientific environments characterized by economic and infrastructural constraints. It is…
Luís Ceze, Mark D. Hill, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Thomas F. Wenisch
Information and communications technology can continue to change our world. These advances will partially depend upon designs that synergistically combine software with specialized hardware. Today open-source software incubates rapid software-only innovation. The government can unleash software-hardware innovation with…
Benjamin I. Morris, Marcy J. Kittredge, Bea Casey, Owen Meng + 4 more
A great deal of understanding can be gleaned from direct observation of organismal growth, development, and behavior. However, direct observation can be time consuming and influence the organism through unintentional stimuli. Additionally, video capturing equipment can often be prohibitively expensive, difficult to…
D Virag, J Homolak, I Kodvanj, Perhoc A Babic + 3 more
Widely available low-cost electronics encourage the development of open-source tools for neuroscientific research. In recent years, many neuroscientists recognized the open science movement for its potential to stimulate and encourage science that is less focused on money, and more on robustness, validity, questioning…
Sander Baas, Vittorio Saggiomo
Ender 3 syringe pumps is an open source and open hardware device for converting an Ender 3 kit to a set of 3 syringe pumps. Almost everything needed for the build is the Ender 3 kit, even all the screws and the tools needed for the assembly. The only parts which needed to be bought are three 5x5 shaft couplers and M5…
José Luis Álvarez, Juan Daniel Mozo, Eladio Durán, Paolo Visconti + 1 more
'Antonio Guerrieri'] Development boards, Single-Board Computers (SBCs) and Single-Board Microcontrollers (SBMs) integrating sensors and communication technologies have become a very popular and interesting solution in the last decade. They are of interest for their simplicity, versatility, adaptability, ease of use and…
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Raman spectroscopy is an increasingly powerful and fast-growing analytical technique across diverse disciplines, from materials science and chemistry to biology and medicine, thanks to advances in Raman instrumentation and greatly supported by the flourishing of chemometrics and artificial intelligence (AI). However…
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Despite the promise of self-driving laboratories to accelerate discovery, their widespread implementation is hindered by prohibitive cost and technical complexity. We introduce BrickSDLab, a fully functional self-driving lab platform built entirely from LEGO® components, designed to bridge this accessibility gap.…
Sterling G. Baird, Taylor D. Sparks
Closed-loop Spectroscopy Lab: Light-mixing Demo (CLSLab:Light) is a teaching and prototyping platform for autonomous scientific discovery. It consists of a set of LEDs and a light sensor while encapsulating key principles for "self-driving" (i.e., autonomous) research laboratories, including sending commands, receiving…
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The increasing importance and predictive power of modern molecular modeling, driven by physics- and machine learning-based methods, necessitates a new collaborative architecture to replace the isolated, traditional model of software development. The traditional approach often led to redundant engineering effort, high…