Useful projects to cite

[Jerzeek]

This is the place to discuss examples of open source hardware!

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Project name: Arduino
Explanation: Open-source electronic prototyping platform enabling users to create interactive electronic objects.
Link: https://www.arduino.cc/
Country: Italy

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Project name: Precious plastic
Explanation: Project to make plastic recycling simple and accessible
Link: https://preciousplastic.com/
Country: Netherlands

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Project name: Opulo
Explanation: Pick and place machine to prepare PCB's with SMD components
Link: https://opulo.io/
Country: USA

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Project name: FAIR battery
Explanation: Software and design for building an open-hardware redox-flow battery from the Center for Unusual Collaborations
Link: https://github.com/SanliFaez/FAIR-Battery
Country: Netherlands

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Project name: OpenFlexture
Explanation: The OpenFlexure project makes high precision mechanical positioning available to anyone with a 3D printer - for use in microscopes, micromanipulators, and more.
Link: https://openflexure.org/
Country: UK

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Project name: Biosphere solar
Explanation: Building open hardware solar panels
Link: https://www.biosphere.solar/
Country: Netherlands

[SanliFaez]

Project: Inedit
scholarly work on do-it-together approach to factories for future, supported by H2020
https://www.inedit-project.eu/publications/

check also the sister projects

• https://www.sintef.no/projectweb/diy4u/
• https://opennext.eu/

[SanliFaez]

Opentrons
3d-printer-based sample handling and lab-automation, great example of OH success
https://opentrons.com/

check this news on 200 M$ investment https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210923005225/en/Opentrons-Announces-200-Million-Series-C-Round-Led-by-SoftBank-Vision-Fund-2

[SanliFaez]

NIH 3D
simple act of sharing 3D designs, supported by NIH https://3d.nih.gov/

[SanliFaez]

Tesla's open patents announcement
https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
https://www.tesla.com/legal/additional-resources#patent-pledge

[SanliFaez]

TRIPS waiver program for COVID related medicine is an example of arguing based on health emergency for deviating from patent enforcement. The discussions and developments around it can be useful for other tech such as climate-mitigation and adaptation innovation https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news22_e/trip_08jul22_e.htm

[SanliFaez]

Enaccess is a funder that only supports open access projects on energy https://enaccess.org/.
their philosophy and also many of their project can be a very useful reference.

[Jerzeek]

Project name: Safecast
Explanation: Open community Geiger counter for monitoring radiation
Link: https://safecast.org/
Country: Japan

[Vsaggiomo]

Project name: Open Source Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Explanation: MRI open source software and hardware
Link: https://www.opensourceimaging.orgl
Country: global

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Project name: OCRA Open-source Console for Real-time Acquisition
Explanation: Open Hardware Console for MRI
Link: https://openmri.github.io/ocra/
Country: USA

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Project name: UC2 (You See Too)
Explanation: Modular microscope
Link: https://openuc2.github.io
Country: Germany

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Project name: Metafluidics
Explanation: Repository for microfluidic designs
Link: https://metafluidics.org
Country: USA

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Project name: Open PCR
Explanation: Open Hardware PCR
Link: https://openpcr.org
Country: USA