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Target Date:<\/strong> 7 January 2022 10.00 – 18.00<\/p>\n Sign up:<\/strong>\u00a0Microsoft Forms Hackathon sign-up<\/a><\/p>\n Host and organise on the Open Lab Team, in the Hackathon Channel: Microsoft Teams channel for Open Hardware at Reading<\/a><\/p>\n For more info, contact a.d.edwards@reading.ac.uk<\/a> or other organising team members: r.sariyer@pgr.reading.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Whilst open hardware is like many things complex when you look closely, the basic principle is simple:<\/p>\n Open Source software is quite widely known to have become a critical segment of computing, from semi-open (Android).<\/p>\n Open Hardware isn\u2019t just about 3D printing. Mostly it doesn\u2019t need 3D printing. Often 3D printing is the worst way to make hardware.<\/p>\n However: almost all hardware needs some custom bits (not just off-the-shelf components), and often the best way to make these custom components on a small scale is to 3D print them. 3D printing makes it easy to replicate simple plastic parts of many different shapes.<\/p>\n 3D printing is just like 2D printing- harder than you think, but nearly anyone can do it now.<\/p>\n Desktop 3D printing:<\/em> Rapid prototyping has been common for many decades, but cheap, simple, Raspberry Pi and Arduino:<\/em> The Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer platform\/ecosystem, that has spread dramatically and allowed many people (myself included) to build computer systems CERN has increasingly used open-source hardware, rather than just buying instruments.<\/p>\n Timetable: 7th of January<\/strong> We will supply different kits to each team to build something, but we also want to talk about The three main activities you will complete are: What to bring: We will need teams to run Raspberry Pi computers, which is easiest if you have We will try to supply enough monitors and keyboard\/mice for each team, but if you can bring these (or bring your own Raspberry Pi) that would be helpful.<\/p>\n We will form teams, ideally, new teams with mixed backgrounds, to spark new ideas and to solve problems faster.\u00a0Each team will develop their own open hardware project to pitch, and at the final session, all teams will present their project in 3 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n Hackathons typically lead to presentations of a micro business plan or \u2018hack\u2019, this presentation should demonstrate:<\/p>\n Our overall theme is Open Source Hardware: we have a particular interest in hardware for life Challenges are flexible<\/strong> but we encourage projects in fields such as: We also identified connections and applications across the campus including: Manuscripts:<\/strong> Typography archives include exquisite manuscripts and print items. We are Types of open hardware<\/strong> are also flexible, but we envisage projects might develop: Prize for the best team idea\/presentation: TBC <\/strong><\/p>\n Whoever is interested in Open Source Hardware!<\/p>\n We hope to include people from diverse backgrounds, roles, experience levels and career stages. From masters student to professor; from healthcare, biomedical science and pharmacology to engineering, computing, instrumentation. Etc. We also welcome arts and humanities participants, food and agriculture.<\/p>\n We would also like to invite members of rLab Hackspace in Reading:\u00a0https:\/\/rlab.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n Funding<\/strong> Links and examples:<\/strong>Micro-Bio-Hack: a small hackathon about Microbiology, Microfluidics, Microscopy, Manuscripts and MORE
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\nWhat is Open Hardware? What is Open Source?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Why 3D printing helps Open Hardware but is not the whole story<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Examples of the success of Open Hardware<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nmelted plastic-based 3D printing only came to our homes through Open Source \u201cRepRap\u201d 3D
\nprinter movement, driven by hobbyists and enthusiasts, but now mainstream.<\/p>\n
\ncheaply and easily. Interestingly, it\u2019s not fully Open Source. Arduino likewise for microcontrollers.
\nSo, if you want to build a custom computer or robot, it\u2019s cheap and easy. Much of the software
\nand hardware around these systems is very well documented online, so you can use it even
\nwithout proper training (!).<\/p>\n
\nTime\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Activity<\/strong>
\n10.00 am\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Team formation and introduction to Open Hardware
\n10.30 am \u2013 4.30 pm\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Teamwork: making things and planning new ideas
\n4.30 \u2013 ~6:00 pm\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Team presentations and PRIZES with drinks and nibbles<\/p>\nHackathon Activity: Hardware session<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nmicroscopy if you want. We can show you a few examples of 3D-printed microscopes.<\/p>\n
\n1. Mechanical: assemble your parts
\n2. Computer: run your Raspberry Pi headless; connect via VNC
\n3. Operate: operate your kit<\/p>\n
\nan HDMI monitor, and a USB keyboard + mouse. However, they can be run remotely via Wi-Fi using a laptop if you install VNC.<\/p>\nHackathon task: Team projects<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Theme and challenges<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nscience research but have no prejudice. Projects should either develop new open hardware<\/strong> or
\napply open hardware to<\/strong> current and future challenges.<\/p>\n
\nMicrobiology:<\/strong> ideas for developing and using open hardware in microbiology
\nMicroscopy:<\/strong> ideas for using open digital microscopes
\nImaging:<\/strong> Raspberry Pi cameras are brilliant for flexible, controllable, lab-quality imaging
\nHealthcare:<\/strong> how can open hardware be used to tackle global health problems<\/p>\n
\nWorms (Nematodes) and Fishes:<\/strong> Time-lapse and video imaging of nematodes C. elegans and
\nzebrafish is vital to many researchers in SBS and beyond. Laboratory imaging instruments are
\nexpensive and closed. We plan to build custom high-performance and high-throughput imaging
\nsystems using Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n
\nexploring ways of digital imaging to create online open-access archives for international
\ncollaboration.<\/p>\n
\nTypes of digital microscope
\nHardware for health data collection
\nImaging instruments or rigs<\/p>\nAudience<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nWe have secured the budget to run this first hackathon and possible sources of support for cross-campus research projects. We are keen to explore external research funding opportunities, and
\nalso, a modest core budget to support Open Source hardware development into the future.<\/p>\n
\nlinks to Open Hardware pages; more to be added!
\nGOSH: https:\/\/openhardware.science\/<\/a>
\nCERN: https:\/\/ohwr.org\/welcome<\/a>
\nOur Biomedical Technology Laboratory Open Hardware stuff:
\nhttps:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/89600\/7\/OpenResearchCaseStudy-2020-Edwards.pdf<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/11\/30\/robot-vs-superbug\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0224878<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/gitlab.com\/ruyameltem\/imaging_rig<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2468067221000729<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/lam.13615<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"