African scientists leverage open hardware
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Publishing date: 2020-06-15
Published on: Nature
summary: This article looks at how a growing emphasis on do-it-yourself science is helping researchers to equip labs in resource-limited areas. For example, “https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2018.e00047">Actifield< n automated open source actimeter for rodents developed by Victor Kumbol at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.
authors: Abdullahi Tsanni
link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01606-z
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