Interview: GaudiLabs Urs Gaudenz has been part of hackteria and similar open source hardware communities for a long time. Nine years ago, he started GaudiLabs, a “desktop manufacturing” company that is selling open source hardware produced in small scale. One of these products is the Pocket-PCR machine. by the Open make team, Urs Gaudenz.

Interview: Smart citizen kit Guillem Camprodon is the Executive Director of Fab Lab Barcelona at IAAC, he was mostly involved in the development of the Smart Citizen Kit, which is the central concept around having a minimum set of tools to measure the environment, leading to the development of the smart citizen concept.

Interview: Craniobot by the Open make team, Suhasa Kodandaramaiah.

Interview: Farmbot by the Open make team and Rory Aronson.

OpenMake II It is a pleasure to announce that the Open.Make project has been funded for another 2.5 years. The work will become more practical and local. We are one of three projects that received a second round of funding by the BUA. While you can download the full application on zenodo: doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8220972, here is a very short summary of our plans.

Interview: VentMon Robert Read lead the development of a ventilator test device during the Covid19 pandemic, it became the Ventmon. By the Open make team and Robert Read.

Hardware in research My name is Mik Schutte. During my master thesis (2022), I was tasked with the rebuilding of a setup: the microstimulation setup. I got acquainted with the hardware surrounding experimental research. All hardware components together make the setup which, if functioning correctly allows for an experimental protocol to be carried out.

28 June 2023 We will run a workshop at the coming Open Science Conference, which will be held online: register to the conference, mark your calendar and join us! Conference: 2023-06-27 to 2023-06-29 Workshop: 2023-06-28 14:30 (to 16:30) Creating a research hardware publication ecosystem: Technical and cultural roadmap In this workshop, we will present the requirements of researchers/makers/engineers that we collected from

Interview: Plastic scanner Jerry de Vos developed the plastic scanner during his master thesis, it will be a device that can identify the most common types of plastic, in order to make plastic recycling simpler, more accessible, and more viable! by the Open make team, and Jerry de Vos.

Interview: M19 Oxygen Concentrator Vaibhav Chhabra organised the development of an oxygen concentrator during the Covid19 pandemic. The present version is called M19 Oxygen Concentrator. by the Open make team, Vaibhav Chhabra.

Interview: OpenFlexure microsocpe Julian Stirling has been a core developer of the OpenFlexure project, which makes high precision mechanical positioning available to anyone with a 3D printer - for use in microscopes, micromanipulators, and more. by the Open make team and Julian Stirling.