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Open Source Hardware: The Rise of RISC-V

Publishing date: 2020-04-06 Published on: The New Stack summary: This article looks at “https://riscv.org”>RISC-V<. The RISC-V foundation provides a free and open source instruction set architecture for chips based on the long-established paradigms for reduced instruction set computing.

Open-Source Neuroscience Hardware Hack Chat

Publishing date: 2020-04-06 Published on: Hackaday summary: This article was written to promote the OPEN-SOURCE NEUROSCIENCE HARDWARE HACK CHAT that took place in February 2020, a transcript of which is available https://hackaday.

Open-source, 3D-printed Peristaltic Pumps for Small Volume Point-of-Care Liquid Handling

Publishing date: 2020-04-06 Published on: Scientific Reports summary: Microfluidic technologies are frequently employed as point-of-care diagnostic tools for improving time-to-diagnosis and improving patient outcomes in clinical settings. These microfluidic devices often are designed to operate with peripheral equipment for liquid handling that increases the cost and complexity of these systems and reduces their potential for widespread adoption in low resource healthcare applications.

Super‐beacons: Open‐source probes with spontaneous tuneable blinking compatible with live‐cell super‐resolution microscopy

Publishing date: 2020-04-06 Published on: Traffic summary: In this work Pereira et al present a new class of DNA‐based self‐quenching open‐source super‐resolution probes that they developed, named super beacons. These probes have photoswitching kinetics that can be tuned structurally, thermally and chemically.

Towards national policy for open source hardware research: The case of Finland

Publishing date: 2020-04-06 Published on: Technological Forecasting and Social Change summary: Free and open-source hardware (FOSH) is rapidly gaining momentum because it provides customized research hardware with over 90% savings compared to the costs of proprietary tools.

UC2 – A Versatile and Customizable low-cost 3D-printed Optical Open-Standard for microscopic imaging

Publishing date: 2020-04-06 Published on: bioRxiv summary: Channel Editor Summary: UC2 is an inexpensive 3D-printed microscopy toolbox that takes modular development seriously, they are a great example of a project that has thought through assembly standards, extensibility and operability from the start of their project and have some impressive assemblies capable of hologrpahic, confocal and light sheet microscopy.

BiteOscope: an open platform to study mosquito blood-feeding behavior

Publishing date: 2020-04-03 Published on: bioRxiv summary: None authors: Felix JH Hol, Louis Lambrechts, Manu Prakash link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.19.955641 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

LED Zappelin’: An open source LED controller for arbitrary spectrum visual stimulation and optogenetics during 2-photon imaging | bioRxiv

Publishing date: 2020-04-03 Published on: bioRxiv summary: None authors: M.J.Y. Zimmermann, A.M. Chagas, P. Bartel, S. Pop, L.L. Prieto Godino, T. Baden link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.10.986000 Icons made by catkuro from www.

microUSV: A low-cost platform for indoor marine swarm robotics research

Publishing date: 2020-04-03 Published on: Hardware X summary: None authors: Calvin Gregory, Andrew Vardy link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2020.e00105 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Open-source five degree of freedom motion platform for investigating fish-robot interaction

Publishing date: 2020-04-03 Published on: Hardware X summary: None authors: Brent Utter, Alexander Brown link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2020.e00107 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com