The Hardware[edit | edit source]
A great site detailing the limits of data capturing with an Arduino - https://sites.google.com/site/measuringstuff/home
Node.js and Johnny-Five[edit | edit source]
The arduino board can be accessed solely through text based Javascript coding (provided the Arduino is running Firmata ), and I recommend this for debugging purposes often, especially to test that your overall setup is working. A number of good examples exist of this approach, with the following recommended:
http://node-ardx.org/ - a great set of examples projects to work through based on node.js and Johnny-Five control of Arduino based projects. http://nodebots.io/ - the building of so called nodebots, node.js controlled robots based primarily on open source microcontrollers such as Arduino Begin with the classic 'hello world' of hardware, namely making an LED on a breadboard and thereafter get acquainted with the code.
If you've never run a Javascript file in your life before (as I had when I started this project, visit Setting up node.js where I describe it for the complete beginner).
Directories of Open Source Hardware projects[edit | edit source]
http://web.archive.org/web/20190201004732/https://opensourcedesign.cc/observatory/
P2P foundation https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Product_Hacking#Development_Toolkits
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_hardware_projects
General Open Source Hardware Initiatives[edit | edit source]
University of Pretoria Open Source Hardware project
Thingiverse page: www.thingiverse.com/groups/uposh/
Pearce Research Group at Michigan Tech
Focusses on solar and 3D printing.
https://www.appropedia.org/Category:MOST
OpenLabware
Focussed on the 3D printing labware
Tom Badens 2015 paper entitled "Open Labware: 3-D Printing Your Own Lab Equipment" has a great table of other projects currently available (http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002086)
Openlabware have a list of open source sites on their site as well - https://open-labware.net/links-2/
Open Source Hardware Engineering
Contains a few open source projects, such as a radation shield for atmospheric temperature measuring.
Microbiology type Open Source Hardware Initiatives
Boston Open Source Science Laboratory http://www.boslab.org/
Focused on genetic projects
Specific Open Source Projects[edit | edit source]
phduino - open source ph meter
Precious Plastic - open source plans of machinery intended for small scale plastic recycling and manufacturing
Other Sites of relevance[edit | edit source]
Open Source hardware organisation - http://www.oshwa.org/
A list of open source hardware projects - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_hardware_projects
Thingiverse Hosts a wide array of open source designs intended for 3D printing
Instructables A veritable gold mine of instructions on how to build anything and almost everything
