Open Hardware Workshop | Freie Universität Berlin, 22 October 2019

"On the occasion of the international Open Access Week 2019, an Open Hardware Workshop organized by the University Library will take place in the Seminarzentrum of the Freie Universität Berlin on the 22th of October 2019.

What is open hardware? According to Open Source Hardware Association: "Open source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware based on that design." (Definition from: https://www.oshwa.org/definition)

Why open hardware? Most projects involve some kind of data acquisition, automatisation, dealing with established machinery and interactions in the real world including motors, microphones, displays and more. Open hardware is fast and cheap to build. It is reproducible and extremely adaptive to the experimental use-cases.

Workshop Content: The workshop will introduce you to the concepts of Open Science and Open Hardware and address the relevance of the topic to junior researchers. During the Hands-On Sessions you will learn where to find necessary information to build Open Hardware. Our expert moderators will facilitate the workshop and share their knowledge, provide practical guidance and assist you with the hardware you want to develop. An explanatory video featuring Benjamin Paffhausen and his project "Artificial Flower - a honey bee feeding device" built with open source hardware and software can be watched here...."