open hardware

During the Hannover Messe 2025, we presented the BUA Mobile Lab, and both the Open.Make and the LAUDS Factories projects. We got the chance to talk with experienced experts from industry including engineers, managers, consultants and business leaders about hardware development practices. Key topics included how they are currently documenting their projects and how open collaboration can be a valuable tool for driving innovative open source hardware development. The most valuable outcome for us was to realize that our academic research is of relevance to the industry and could find application there as a means for open innovation projects and research transfer.

OpenMake at the Hannover Messe 2025

in outreach

March 21, 2025

Next week, starting 31.05.2025, we will be one week in Hannover for the Hannover Messe. The Messe is quite famous (the. “world leading industryshow”) in the world of the manufacturing industry. We will represent both the OpenMake project (implementing open and fair hardware) and the LAUDS Factories (local accessible urban digital sustainable factories). We will present our mobile lab, including open source CNC mills developed by our lauds partner Mekanika, and the beta version of our hardware review and publication system.

Two citations with one doi ?

By Julien Colomb in FAIR4RH

July 24, 2024

Here, Julien Colomb presents in a very short post the idea of having and attribution reference and a provenance reference for an hardware/software/dataset object. We present 2 objectives of citing data, one workaround for having it all, what is would mean for hardware paper and end with a question about the validity of this ideas. He is hoping that it may open a discussion on this topic. The two objectives of citing data People have been publishing datasets for decades now, and there is ongoing research on the apparent trade off between providing persistent identifiers to the data and allowing data versions.

Interview summary: audiomoth

By Alex Rogers, Open make interview team in interview

January 23, 2024

Interview: audiomoth Alex Rogers is a Professor of Computer Science who lead the team that developed the audiomoth, a low-price passve sound recorder used for biodiversity monitoring in the wild. by the Open make team, Alex Rogers. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The project The hardware The research outputs The participants *Banner image: logo of the openacousticdevices company, By openacousticdevices, used with permission

Interview: Gorgas Tracker

By Pierre Padilla Huamantinco, Open make interview team in interview

January 22, 2024

Interview: Gorgas Tracker Pierre Padilla Huamantinco is a PhD student at Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, he led the development of the Gorgas Tracker, a device that was used to track the position of people and investigate the role of human population movement in malaria epidemiology in rural villages in the Peruvian Amazon river networks. by the Open make team, Pierre Padilla Huamantinco. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.

Interview: Guaudilabs, the Pocket-PCR

By Urs Gaudenz, Open make interview team in interview

January 18, 2024

Interview: GaudiLabs Urs Gaudenz has been part of hackteria and similar open source hardware communities for a long time. Nine years ago, he started GaudiLabs, a “desktop manufacturing” company that is selling open source hardware produced in small scale. One of these products is the Pocket-PCR machine. by the Open make team, Urs Gaudenz. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The project The hardware The research outputs The participants Banner image: GaudiLabs logo, used with permission

Interview: craniobot

By Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, Open make interview team in interview

January 16, 2024

Interview: Craniobot by the Open make team, Suhasa Kodandaramaiah. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The project The hardware The research outputs The participants Banner image: fixme, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 Interviewee: Suhasa Kodandaramaiah Interviewers: Robert Mies (TU Berlin) & Moritz Maxeiner (FU Berlin) Transcription and editing: Diana Paola Americano Guerrero, Robert Mies, Fabio Reeh, Moritz Maxeiner & Julien Colomb Screenshot of the interview.

Interview: Smart-citizen-kit

By Guillem Camprodon, Open make interview team in interview

January 16, 2024

Interview: Smart citizen kit Guillem Camprodon is the Executive Director of Fab Lab Barcelona at IAAC, he was mostly involved in the development of the Smart Citizen Kit, which is the central concept around having a minimum set of tools to measure the environment, leading to the development of the smart citizen concept. by the Open make team, . Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections:

Interview: Farmbot

By Rory Aronson, Open make interview team in interview

December 24, 2023

Interview: Farmbot by the Open make team and Rory Aronson. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The Project The Hardware The Research outputs The Participants Banner image: farmbot logo, distributed under a CC-BY-NC. Interviewee: Rory Aronson Interviewers: Robert Mies (TU Berlin) & Moritz Maxeiner (FU Berlin) Transcription and editing: Diana Paola Americano Guerrero, Robert Mies, Fabio Reeh, Moritz Maxeiner & Julien Colomb

Interview: VentMon

By Robert Read, Open make interview team in interview

September 28, 2023

Interview: VentMon Robert Read lead the development of a ventilator test device during the Covid19 pandemic, it became the Ventmon. By the Open make team and Robert Read. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The project The hardware The research outputs The participants Banner image: VentMon logo, distributed under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 Interviewee: Robert Read Interviewers: Robert Mies (TU Berlin) & Moritz Maxeiner (FU Berlin)

Hannover Messe 2025: OSH for industry

OpenMake at the Hannover Messe 2025

Two citations with one doi ?

Interview summary: audiomoth

Interview: Gorgas Tracker

Interview: Guaudilabs, the Pocket-PCR

Interview: craniobot

Interview: Smart-citizen-kit

Interview: Farmbot

Interview: VentMon

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