Learning FOSH lessons
- What is open science hardware: fundamentals, motivations, communities.
- Definitions and communities
- Origins in the hacker culture, the Do-It-Yourself culture, the appropriate technology movement
- Open science hardware inside and outside academy.
- Open science designs in the academy
- Community science cases
- Open science designs in art
- From an idea to a prototype, from a prototype to production.
- The prototyping process and its stages
- Rapid prototyping tools and digital manufacturing
- Microcontrollers
- Available sensors in the market
- FOSS used to make hardware
- Design for production
- Making open science hardware with others
- Development of communities
- Good collaborative practices
- Platforms for exchanging designs, incentives and strategies
- Successful and not so successful cases
- Sustainability of open science hardware projects
- Documentation: access and accessibility.
- Open licenses for hardware: TAPR, CERN OHL, Solderpad, OpenMTA
- Business models: based on experience, manufacturing, outsourcing.