Open-Source Lab
How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs
Description
Key Features
- Numerous examples of technologies and the open-source user and developer communities that support them
- Instructions on how to take advantage of digital design sharing
- Explanations of Arduinos and RepRaps for scientific use
- A detailed guide to open-source hardware licenses and basic principles of intellectual property
Readership
All laboratory personnel- everyone involved with science and technology research in academia, industry, and government. Specific audiences include chemists/chemical engineers; biologists/biomedical engineers; physicists; mechanical, and civil and electrical engineers.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
1.1 Standard Disclaimer
Acknowledgments
Disclaimer
Chapter 1. Introduction to Open-Source Hardware for Science
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 What is Open Source?
1.3 Free and Open-Source Hardware
References
Chapter 2. The Benefits of Sharing—Nice Guys and Girls do Finish First
Abstract
2.1 Advantages of Aggressive Sharing for the Academic
2.2 Overcoming Challenges of Open-Source Research
2.3 Why Should You Share and Be Nice Anyway—The Theory
2.4 Industrial Strength Sharing
2.5 The Fate of Hardware Vendors: Innovate or Die
2.6 Concluding Thoughts
References
Chapter 3. Open Licensing—Advanced Sharing
Abstract
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Learning from Software: Software Rights
3.3 OSHW Licenses
3.4 Open Source Hardware Association Definition
3.5 Best Practices and Etiquette for Using OSHW
3.6 Continued IP Challenges
3.7 Summary and Conclusions
References
Chapter 4. Open-Source Microcontrollers for Science: How to Use, Design Automated Equipment With and Troubleshoot
Abstract
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Open-Source Microcontroller Family
4.3 Getting Started with an Arduino Microcontroller
4.4 Working with the Arduino
4.5 Example: The “Polar Bear” Open-Source Environmental Chamber
4.6 Concluding Thoughts and Additional Reading
References
Chapter 5. RepRap for Science—How to Use, Design, and Troubleshoot the Self-Replicating 3-D Printer
Abstract
5.1 Introduction to REPRAPS
5.2 Building a REPRAP
5.3 Software
5.4 Printing for the First Time
References
Chapter 6. Digital Designs and Scientific Hardware
Abstract
6.1 OpenSCAD, RepRap and Arduino Microcontrollers
6.2 Physics: Open-Source Optics
6.3 Engineering: Open-Source Laser Welder, Radiation Detection, and Oscilloscopes
6.4 Environmental Science: Open-Source Colorimeters and pH Meters
6.5 Biology: OpenPCR, Open-Source Centrifuges and More
6.6 Chemistry: Spectrometers and Other Chemical Research Tools
References
Chapter 7. The Future of Open-Source Hardware and Science
Abstract
7.1 Introduction to the Future
7.2 The Impact on the Scientific Brain Drain/Gain
7.3 Acceleration of Technological Evolution
7.4 Open-Source Research in the Future
7.5 Concluding Thoughts
References
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2013
- Published: October 4, 2013
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780124104860
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124104624
About the Author
Joshua Pearce
