Open Science Shop

News

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

Working Group Meetings

Recap: Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (November 2024)

Recap of the November working group meeting

Working Group Meetings

Recap: Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (October 2024)

Update on the new OpenFlexure vendor page & promotional strategies

Working Group Meetings

Recap: Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (September 2024)

Update on the new OpenFlexure vendor page & promotional strategies

Working Group Meetings

Recap: Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (August 2024)

Agenda: Check-in on the manufacturer directory | Discussing the structure of future meetings.

News

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.

Working Group Meetings

Recap: Open Science Shop & Open Flexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (July 2024)

Written by Brianna Johns and Jo Long for the Open Science Shop Newsletter Each month, we share a summary of our most recent Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group (OSS-OFM WG) meeting as we continue to work together to enable distributed manufacturing of the OpenFlexure Microscope (OFM) on

Working Group Meetings

Recap: Open Science Shop & Open Flexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (June 2024)

Written by Brianna Johns and Jo Long for the Open Science Shop Newsletter Each month, we share a summary of our most recent Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group (OSS-OFM WG) meeting as we continue to work together to enable distributed manufacturing of the OpenFlexure Microscope (OFM) on

Working Group Meetings

Recap: Open Science Shop & Open Flexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (May 2024)

Written by Jo Long and Brianna Johns for the Open Science Shop Newsletter Each month, we share a summary of our most recent Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group (OSS-OFM WG) meeting as we continue to work together to enable distributed manufacturing of the OpenFlexure Microscope (OFM) on

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.

Working Group Meetings

Recap: Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (April 2024)

Written by Brianna Johns for the Open Science Shop Newsletter We are back with another summary of our most recent Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Working Group (OSS-OFM WG) meeting as we continue to work together to enable distributed manufacturing of the OpenFlexure Microscope on a global scale. This week&

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.

Working Group Meetings

Recap: Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (March 2024)

A quick summary of what happened at our most recent Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope working group meeting.

Products

New Product: UV Open Colorimeter

IO Rodeo announces their new product, the UV Open Colorimeter.

News

Recap: Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (February 2024)

The Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope teams are working together to enable distributed manufacturing globally.

News

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.

News

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.

Exploring strategies for extending use of open hardware in K-12 schools

This draft concept paper was written as a way of initiating dialog between open hardware companies and educators about potential synergies that might be developed.

History of Open Science Shop & Working Group Report

As members of the Open Science Shop community, we have a shared goal of increasing accessibility to open science hardware products. As we launch Open Science Shop with this goal in mind, we thought it would be relevant to share a brief history of how we got to where we

Soil Active Carbon - POXC

Why is it important to measure active carbon POXC in soils? Permanganate oxidizable carbon (POXC) also referred as active carbon, is the labile organic carbon fraction in soil and is considered to have a primary role in many soil functions related to productivity and environmental resilience. It is the organic

Welcome to the Open Science Shop Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the Open Science Shop Newsletter! We are excited to be launching a newsletter for the Open Science Hardware community covering all things related to running an open hardware science business. Each newsletter will focus on a specific topic or resource and will also offer opportunities for

Products

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

News

Rodeostat: open source potentiostat

Visit the product page to purchase! The Rodeostat is an open source potentiostat for performing electrochemical measurements. It is designed to work with the Adafruit ItsyBitsy M4 Express Board. It is a very flexible instrument with multiple output voltage and current measurement ranges. * Current measurement ranges: +/- 1, 10, 100,