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Hardware in research My name is Mik Schutte. During my master thesis (2022), I was tasked with the rebuilding of a setup: the microstimulation setup. I got acquainted with the hardware surrounding experimental research. All hardware components together make the setup which, if functioning correctly allows for an experimental protocol to be carried out. However, as many experimenters can confirm, the road to a functional, personalized and ideal setup has many obstacles.

Workshop at the open science conference

in FAIR4RH, progress report

May 11, 2023

28 June 2023 We will run a workshop at the coming Open Science Conference, which will be held online: register to the conference, mark your calendar and join us! Conference: 2023-06-27 to 2023-06-29 Workshop: 2023-06-28 14:30 (to 16:30) Creating a research hardware publication ecosystem: Technical and cultural roadmap In this workshop, we will present the requirements of researchers/makers/engineers that we collected from our 15 interviews, discuss requirements of other participating communities, and draw a roadmap for the creation of the cultural and technological ecosystem which will eventually allow for the recognition of FAIR hardware as a research output.

Interview: Plastic scanner

in interview

April 19, 2023

Interview: Plastic scanner Jerry de Vos developed the plastic scanner during his master thesis, it will be a device that can identify the most common types of plastic, in order to make plastic recycling simpler, more accessible, and more viable! by the Open make team, and Jerry de Vos. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The project The hardware The research outputs The participants Banner image:

M19 Oxygen Concentrator

in interview

February 8, 2023

Interview: M19 Oxygen Concentrator Vaibhav Chhabra organised the development of an oxygen concentrator during the Covid19 pandemic. The present version is called M19 Oxygen Concentrator. by the Open make team, Vaibhav Chhabra. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The project The hardware The research outputs The participants Banner image: maker’s asylum logo Interviewee: Vaibhav Chhabra Interviewers: Robert Mies (TU Berlin) & Moritz Maxeiner (FU Berlin)

Interview: OpenFlexure microscope

in interview

January 1, 2023

Interview: OpenFlexure microsocpe Julian Stirling has been a core developer of the OpenFlexure project, which makes high precision mechanical positioning available to anyone with a 3D printer - for use in microscopes, micromanipulators, and more. 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)

Interview: White rabbit

in interview

October 20, 2022

Interview: White rabbit Javier Serrano has been leading the development of White rabbit, which allows for a distributed real-time system to ensure all components are synchronized at sub-nanosecond accuracy. It was developed at CERN, based on the ethernet technology, while manufactured by commercial companies. 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.

Work in progress - No1

in progress report

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 :

defining FAIR for research hardware

in FAIR4RH

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.

Student assistant position available

in position

October 25, 2021

update 2022-05-02 The three positions have been filled, thanks to all who applied ! In Open.Make we are looking for three motivated student assistants to support our research team and enrich it with your own unique and complementary skillset. Any student of a Berlin university can apply to any of the three positions (salary 12,68 € brutto according to TV Stud III). The majority of the work needs to be done on site.

Open.Make kickoff meeting.

October 7, 2021

On October 7th 2021, the Open.Make project kickoff meeting took place at the Charité campus in Mitte. The three research partners/labs, the project officer from the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) and three invited external partners presented and discussed their respective works. It was a successful meeting as it offered a broad overview of the benefits of open hardware in academia and beyond. While it was originally planned as fully in-person, the meeting had to be shifted to a hybrid meeting, as two participants could not come to the meeting location.

Three months in Delft, two open hardware projects

Workshop at the open science conference

Interview: Plastic scanner

M19 Oxygen Concentrator

Interview: OpenFlexure microscope

Interview: White rabbit

Work in progress - No1

defining FAIR for research hardware

Student assistant position available

Open.Make kickoff meeting.

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