Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs

December 14, 2013
author |
Joshua M. Pearce
year published |
2013

Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Scientific Research Costs details the development of the free and open-source hardware revolution. The combination of open-source 3D printing and microcontrollers running on free software enables scientists, engineers, and lab personnel in every discipline to develop powerful research tools at unprecedented low costs. After reading Open-Source Lab, you will be able to:

– Lower equipment costs by making your own hardware
– Build open-source hardware for scientific research
– Actively participate in a community in which scientific results are more easily replicated and cited
– 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

Kindle edition available here.