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CoralCam: A flexible, low-cost ecological monitoring platform

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: Hardware X summary: None authors: Austin Greene, Zac Forsman, Robert J. Toonen, Megan J. Donahue link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2019.e00089 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Designing Tools for Civilization: The Future of Open Source Hardware

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: The Startup summary: This article presents the 2011 TED Talk of Marcin Jakubowski, the founder of “https://www.opensourceecology.org/">Open Source Ecology<, an open collaborative of engineers, producers, and builders.

ElectroPen: An ultra-low–cost, electricity-free, portable electroporator

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: PLOS Biology summary: None authors: Gaurav Byagathvalli, Soham Sinha, Yan Zhang, Mark P. Styczynski, Janet Standeven, M. Saad Bhamla link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000589 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Exploiting open source 3D printer architecture for laboratory robotics to automate high-throughput time-lapse imaging for analytical microbiology

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Sarah H. Needs, Tai The Diep, Stephanie P. Bull, Anton Lindley-Decaire, Partha Ray, Alexander D. Edwards link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224878

Fieldwork-based determination of design priorities for point-of-use drinking water quality sensors for use in resource-limited environments

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Michael S. Bono Jr., Sydney Beasley, Emily Hanhauser, A. John Hart, Rohit Karnik, Chintan Vaishnav link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228140 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Manufacturers demand open 3D printing ecosystem, study shows

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: Product Engineering Solutions summary: This article reports on the findings of an independent global investigation of the current and future use of 3D printing. The study revealed that 995 of the manufacturing executives surveyed believe that an open ecosystem is important to advance 3D printing at scale.

One-shot phase-recovery using a cellphone RGB camera on a Jamin-Lebedeff microscope

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Benedict Diederich, Barbora Marsikova, Brad Amos, Rainer Heintzmann link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227096 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Open Source Hardware Risks

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: Semiconductor Engineering summary: Open-source hardware is gaining attention on a variety of fronts, from chiplets and the underlying infrastructure to the ecosystems required to support open-source and hybrid open-source and proprietary designs.

Open-source 3D printed air-jet for generating monodispersed alginate microhydrogels

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: bioRxiv summary: None authors: Dustin J. Hadley, Kevin T. Campbell, Marina H. Gabriel, Eduardo A. Silva link to paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/804849v2 Icons made by catkuro from www.

OptiJ: Open-source optical projection tomography of large organ samples

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: Scientific Reports summary: Channel Editor Summary: The second paper in this pairing, describes an optical projection tomography (OPT) system for large transparent organ samples. Capable of imaging high volumes (up to 13mm tall X8mm deep) at near-cellular resolution (50µm), they go beyond current low cost OPT by providing more than one solution to sample alignment issues present in these tyoes of systems.