A team of scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has successfully developed a new type of microscope. The so-called NeuBtracker is an open source microscope that allows to observe neuronal activities of zebrafish without perturbing their behavior. This is opening up completely new perspectives for science, because now it will be possible to track natural behavior while simultaneously imaging neuronal activity in the brain.
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The Open Source Hardware and Maker Movements: Reshaping America
Isaac Budmen | Information Space | October 8, 2012
It is by accepting the responsibility for making what we invent here in America that together we will be able to change our current circumstances, reshape our economy and in the process make a better future for ourselves and the next generation. If that is a future you wish to see as much as I do, then I encourage you to learn more about OSHW and the Maker Movement. Read More »
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The Story of Ultimaker: 3D Printers with Open Source DNA
By Paul Croft | June 1, 2016
Today we're seeing open hardware projects and businesses succeed for the first time in history. Why, and what do they look like? The story of the Ultimaker and its user community proves that being open is in fact sustainable and may even go a step further to say that that sharing and collaboration are genuine routes to innovation. Let's go back several years to a makerspace in Utrecht, a big city in the Netherlands. The founders of Ultimaker, a premium 3D printer manufacturer, were inspired by the potential of 3D printing, and experimenting with the open source designs of the RepRap project...
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Tracking live brain activity with the new NeuBtracker open-source microscope
Press Release |
Helmholtz Zentrum München, Technical University of Munich (TUM) |
October 2, 2017
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Using Blender to Prepare for Orthopedic Surgeries
By Jason van Gumster | December 18, 2015
The planning of orthopedic surgeries is a difficult process. In a lot of ways, it's like working while wearing a blindfold; a surgeon can't see the bone that needs to be worked on until during the actual surgery, when time is most critical. Even with X-rays and CT scans, the raw data can be difficult to interpret correctly. Fortunately, open source software can (and does!) help reduce the guesswork. At the 2015 Blender Conference, Vasily Shishkin gave a very interesting talk on his research project and use of Blender and 3D printing in the planning and guiding of orthopedic surgery...You may find yourself thinking, "Wait a minute. Blender? The same Blender that's used for making pretty images and animations? That Blender?" Yes. That Blender...
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Vanderbilt Open Sources Hardware and Software for Medical Capsule Robots
Press Release |
Vanderbilt University |
November 4, 2015
Researchers around the globe who want to customize medical capsule robots won’t have to start from scratch – a team from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering did the preliminary work for them and is ready to share. Through a website and a paper revealed at a pair of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) conferences, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Pietro Valdastri, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Akos Ledeczi and their team made the capsule hardware and software open-source.
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Vanderbilt U Researchers Open Source Blueprints and Software for Focused Ultrasound System
Thomas Dworetzky | DOTmed HealthCareBusiness Daily News | June 1, 2016
Charles Caskey, Ph.D., and Will Grissom, Ph.D., at the university’s Institute of Imaging Science (VIIS) decided to address the technical difficulty of configuring focused ultrasound (FUS) equipment and the limited number of commercial machines available at present. "The lack of well-described, accessible, pre-clinical focused ultrasound systems limits progress and decreases repeatability of new developments,” Dr. Caskey told the Focused Ultrasound Foundation website. “Our open-source system can deliver repeatable, precise, and quantifiable thermal and mechanical focused ultrasound over an extended period in small animals.” Read More »
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Who Controls Your Smartphone? And How to Leverage Open Source to Prevent it from Spying on You
By Simon Hartley | December 14, 2020
There are many things about today’s world that warrant us asking that question. Do you or the mobile vendor control your smartphones? If you are a consumer, small or medium business (SMB) -- the answer is the vendor...What if you are a large enterprise or a government agency? The answer is still the vendor...How can the user regain control? Not all vendors have locked devices and walled gardens. Google’s line of Pixel hardware, for example, is a mid-market solution whose bootloader allows locking and re-locking. Pixels support two versions of Android. Google Mobile Services (GMS), where free services are tied to data monetization and a UX like Apple and Samsung devices. Secondly, Pixels can run Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) code that shares the same strengths as the GMS build, but the customer controls the code base and updates. There are several companies that are selling AOSP operating system builds for Pixel and other unlockable/lockable mobile phones and tablets...
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Why My Doctor Prescribed Me Open Hardware
By Hugo Silva | June 4, 2015
I recall a senior medical doctor once saying that being a practitioner nowadays is much more difficult than ever before, because when people get diagnosed, they go home to search the web, and often come back with tough questions. Open hardware for physiological computing isn’t making it any easier, but it seems like that’s not a bad thing...
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Why Now Is A Great Time To Consider A Career In Open Source Hardware
By Joshua Pearce | November 13, 2021
Twenty years or so ago, almost no one even knew what open source hardware was, let alone planned a career around it. In 2000, for example, out of the more than 2 million academic papers published that year in the entire world, only seven articles even mentioned "open source hardware" at all. When I first wrote Open-Source Lab, I'd collected every example (only a few dozen) and could easily keep up and read every open hardware article that got published to post them on a wiki. I am happy to report that is no longer physically possible. There have already been over 1,500 articles that discuss "open source hardware" this year, and I am sure many more will be out by year's end. Open source hardware is now a field of its own, with a few journals dedicated to it specifically (for example, HardwareX and the Journal of Open Hardware). In a wide range of fields, dozens of traditional journals now routinely cover the latest open hardware developments.
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OpenEd Jam 2014
OpenEdJam is a 3-day international event that brings together activists, developers, educators, engineers, librarians, and makers from all fields. We will provide a hands-on environment where participants can collaborate on innovative creations and uses of free and open education resources.
Software: Attend workshops and demonstrations on free and open software.
Hardware: Attend workshops and demonstrations on freedom respecting hardware.
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EHI Live 2015
EHI live, now in its 8th year, is the UK's leading exhibition for digital health, hospital information and healthcare innovation. The event attracts visitors and delegates from around the UK and beyond who are keen to learn from industry leaders and examine new technologies. The EHI Live exhibition gives visitors the chance to see the best that NHS IT suppliers have to offer. EHI Live will take place in Birmingham, UK, Nov 3-4, in Hall 1 at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham. The event will host more than 250 exhibitors showcasing the latest advances in IT healthcare solutions. It will also feature free-to-attend conferences that will address the major healthcare IT industry issues such...[including] the annual HANDI Health Apps conference which features its own specialist app zone, a feature dedicated to the use of open source technology.
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HANDI Health Apps Conference 2015
HANDI Health Apps is the first national conference dedicated to health and care apps and lightweight digital tools to take place in the UK. Now in its third-year this event is a “must attend” for app developers, health and care professionals, managers and commissioners and others seeking to understand how digital tools can support the delivery of efficient, patient centred care. HANDI Health Apps will take place in Birmingham, UK, Nov 3-4, in Hall 1 at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham.
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Red Hat Summit
The Red Hat Summit is an open source technology conference designed to showcase the best and latest technology in virtualization, cloud computing, platform, middleware, storage, and systems management. The 2017 Red Hat Summit is the 13th annual summit since its start in 2005. Themes for 2017 include big data, internet of things (IoT), OpenStack, containers, culture of collaboration, IT strategy, management tools, security, integration, infrastructure, DevOps, business automation, application platforms, delivery, and development. Attendees can have access to breakout sessions, general sessions, hands-on labs and trainings, keynotes, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, discovery sessions, and the Partner Theater...
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