1. Research

We are conducting interviews, surveys and observatory studies to understand the current practices and the community needs.

  1. Hardware publication platform

We will gather a community of interest to co-create an ecosystem for hardware publication, including a peer review system, that will provide recognition for the hardware makers. The platform will be tested with use cases from the participating labs.

  1. Impact maximisation

We will produce open books to guide makers and PIs in their path to open and FAIR hardware production as well as work with the community to drive further acceptance of the developed workflows.

Team

Researchers from three Berlin universities are collaborating to make this project fly.

  • Industrial engineer, research associate at the TU Berlin.

    Robert Mies

    Hardware co-creation

  • Data manager and open science enthusiast, research associate at the HU Berlin.

    Dr. Julien Colomb

    Data management, scholarly comm.

  • Information scientist and open source developer, research associate at FU Berlin.

    Moritz Maxeiner

    Open source robotics

  • Neuroscientist, Full Professor at HU Berlin.

    Prof. Matthew Larkum

    Neuroscience

  • Bioinformatician, Professor of Artificial and Collective Intelligence, FU Berlin.

    Prof. Tim Landgraf

    Open source robotics

  • Mechanical engineer, Full Professor at TU Berlin.

    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roland Jochem

    Quality Science

  • Master Student in Cognitive Neurosciences at the FU Berlin

    Diana Americano Guerrero

    Student assistant

  • Biology Bachelor student at HU Berlin.

    Fabio Reeh

    Student assistant

This is a collaborative effort!

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Interview: OpenFlexure microscope

on January 1, 2023

Interview: OpenFlexure microsocpe by the Open make team and Julian Stirling. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The project The hardware The research outputs The participants Interviewee: Julian Stirling Interviewers: Robert Mies (TU Berlin) & Moritz Maxeiner (FU Berlin) Transcription and editing: Diana Paola Americano Guerrero, Robert Mies, Moritz Maxeiner & Julien Colomb Banner image: derived from an icon from the Gathering for Open Hardware Community (CC-BY) and photo from Julian Stirling.

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Interview: White rabbit

on October 20, 2022

Interview: White rabbit by the Open make team, Javier Serrano and Amanda Diez Frenandez. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The project The Hardware The Research outputs The participants Banner image: white rabbit logo, By CERN, distributed under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 Interviewee: Javier Serrano (CERN) & Amanda Diez Fernandez (CERN) Interviewers: Robert Mies (TU Berlin) & Moritz Maxeiner (FU Berlin) Transcription and editing: Diana Paola Americano Guerrero, Robert Mies, Moritz Maxeiner & Julien Colomb

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Work in progress - No1

on May 23, 2022

20022-05-13 “PI meeting” We had our first progress report with the lab heads Profs. Larkum, Jochem, and Lindgraf. We used a two hours window to present the new team members, as well as our progresses, successes and failures. We are now sharing these with all of you. We hope you will enjoy this summary of our presentations and discussions. Introductions We started by using some extract of the interviews to illustrate the main issues we tackle, that is the discrepancy between :

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defining FAIR for research hardware

on November 10, 2021

This blog post will present our progresses in our work on defining FAIR for research hardware. It has been updated, you can see its history on github. Summary After a gosh forum entry and initial meetings, we have created a RDA group for FAIR hardware: httpS://rd-alliance.org/groups/fair-principles-research-hardware. The group has agreed on a charter that has been endorsed by the RDA. Our next tasks are: Preparing the plenary and get more members Work on the definition of open hardware.

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