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.
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 Open Science and Open Hardware, address the relevance of the topic for junior researchers and demonstrate how to find all necessary information to build Open Science Hardware.
During the Hands-on Sessions the hardware you want to develop will be discussed to help you build it.
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.
Overview of the Event
| What |
Open Hardware Workshop |
| When |
Tuesday, 22 October 2019; 09:00-17:00 (incl. one-hour lunch break) |
| Where |
Freie Universität Berlin, Seminarzentrum, room: L115, Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26 (Silberlaube), 14195 Berlin |
| Target Group |
Researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin who want to start using hardware |
| Registration |
Please register online here. |
| Acceptance to the workshop | Participants will be informed if they are accepted for the workshop once the evaluation process of the registrations has been concluded. |
Workshop Agenda
| 09:00-09:15 | Opening |
| 09:15-10:00 | Open Science – From our Values to our Research Practice
Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn |
| 10:00-12:00 | Hands-On-Session I
Moderation: Dr. Benjamin Paffhausen & André Maia Chagas |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00-16:30 | Hands-On-Session II
Moderation: Dr. Benjamin Paffhausen & André Maia Chagas |
| 16:30-17:00 | Wrap-Up |