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Mothbox Working Group
The Open Science Shop is teaming up with the Mothbox project to help manufacture low-cost insect monitors across the globe!
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From Microscopes to Microbes: What’s New at LabCrafter
At the beginning of September last year, my wife and I co-founded a new open science hardware company - LabCrafter - in Wales. We started by offering open science tools to folks in the UK, and recently expanded to serve the EU as well. In addition to being a vendor
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Official launch of the OpenFlexure vendors page
This year the Open Science Shop community has been collaborating with the OpenFlexure team with the goal of building a global network of OpenFlexure microscope kit vendors. We have been organizing monthly OSS-OFM working group meetings since February which are archived here. We are really excited by how much progress
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Building Open Science Hardware with Secondary School Teachers
In this post, we learn more about an educational workshop for secondary school teachers that helped bring open science hardware to new audiences.
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Commercialization of Open Source Hardware: Turning Open Designs into Profit
In this post, we take a closer look at cases of Open Source Hardware (OSH) projects that have successfully been commercialized.
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Attend the 2024 Open Hardware Summit
Written by Sid Drmay and Lee Wilkins On May 3rd and 4th in Montreal, Canada, the Open Source Hardware Organization (OSHWA) will host the 2024 Open Hardware Summit, our annual fundraising event featuring two full days of workshops, talks, an unconference, and discussion sessions dedicated to exploring Open Source Hardware.
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Education and Capacity Building for Open Science Hardware in Sub-Saharan African Universities
In our collective efforts to promote open science and hardware within the African scientific community, it is important to employ strategies to foster education and awareness of open science and hardware principles, developing capacities and skills to build and use open scientific instruments.
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Recap: Open Science Shop at the GOSH Roadmap coworking session
The Open Science Shop began brainstorming ways to manufacture and sell open science hardware at a one-hour coworking session led by the GOSH Community last month.
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Join the Open Science Shop for a coworking session
The Open Science Shop invites you to learn more about the initiative and work with organizers in a one-hour coworking session led by the GOSH Community.
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OurSci Reflectometer: a tool to empower scientists and communities to better understand the land
Marie Zedler on February 5, 2023 To answer questions about the real world using the tools of science, OurSci is a small team supporting the development of research capacity for community-driven science. We asked OurSci ‘Why is your work important?’ “Up till now, most problems that were addressed in science