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Open source scientific hardware is open source hardware used by scientists to do research or for education. This gallery and associated sub-pages are an extension of the book the Open Source Lab, which is about how to make scientific equipment following open source principles. Click on the hyperlinks under the images in this index to go to pages with hundreds of examples.

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  The Open-source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs
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  Open Source Framework for a Broadly Expandable and Reconfigurable Data Acquisition and Automation Device (BREAD)
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  Moving the Open-Source Broadly Reconfigurable and Expandable Automation Device (BREAD) Towards a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System
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  Open Source Cold and Hot Scientific Sheet Press for Investigating Polymer-Based Material Properties
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  Open Source Inert Gas Glove Box
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  NIH 3D Print Exchange - 3D-printable Custom Labware
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  3D printable science equipment - 3D print your lab
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  3D printable science equipment page 2 - more 3D prints for your lab
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  3D printable science equipment page 3 - and even more
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  Open Source Optics Library - and your optics lab
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  Open Source Laboratory Sample Rotator Mixer and Shaker
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  Open Source Scientific Bottle Roller
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  Michigan Tech's Open Sustainability Technology Lab's efforts in open source hardware
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  Open-source syringe pump - Parametric library of web-controlled open-source syringe pumps
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  Open-source 3-D Platform for Low-cost Scientific Instrument Ecosystem
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  Free and open-source automated 3-D microscope
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  3-D printable open source dual axis gimbal system for optoelectronic measurements
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  Open Source 3-D Printed Nutating Mixer
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  Open source microscope accessories
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  Open Source test tube racks
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  Open source centrifuges
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  Open Source Raman Spectrometer
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  Ultrascope
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  The Unique Open-Source Quartz Crystal Microbalance
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  Low-cost Open-Source Voltage and Current Monitor for Gas Metal Arc Weld 3-D Printing
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  Flypi - Portable device for microscopy, thermo and optogenetic experiments [1]
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  Open-Source Photometric System for Enzymatic Nitrate Quantification
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  GaudiLabs- Swiss Fab Lab making low cost lab instruments
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  OpenTrons - Open source fluid handling
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  Plasmatron - OpenTrons derivative for semi-automated culture of malaria parasites
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  Pax Instruments
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  PNNL Smartphone Microscope
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  Open-source Wax RepRap 3-D Printer for Rapid Prototyping Paper-Based Microfluidics
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  Open-Labware.net
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  OpenFlexure Microscope, WaterScope
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  nEMoS (nano Environmental Monitoring System)
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  LudusScope-Accessible Interactive Smartphone Microscopy
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  CheapStat OS DIY Potentiostat
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  BioHack Academy Kit
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  PLOS Open Source Toolkit
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  OpenIOLabs monitors and controls multiple devices with one unified programming interface
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  IOrodeo - company making open source science instruments
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  Cambridge JIC - 3D printable programmable digital microscope
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  freeLoader mechanical testing machine
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  Marchetto Lab - open source sensors and instrumentation
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  Open Source Imaging, NMR, MRI, EMF
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  EEZ OS Bench power supply
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  Open Behavior FOSH for animal behavior and cognition
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  Libre Space Foundation has both DIY satellite ground station and OS satellite UPSat
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  Openly Published Environmental Sensing Lab at OSU- rain catchment, wind vane, soil moisture, etc.
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  UPB Smartphone spectrometer
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  Plant tissue culture systems from U. of Guelph
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  ECHO Open - Echo stethescope
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  Open Biomedical
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  Arduino - a class of open source microcontrollers useful for automating equipment
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  Raspberry Pi - credit-card sized computer running Linux
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  Red Pitaya - open source measurement and control tool
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  OpenLabTools - University of Cambridge initiative in open source hardware for science
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  Tekla Lab - Berkley's initiative for a library of open source DIY quality scientific lab equipment
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  Sensorica - an Open Value Network providing sensing and automation solutions.
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  Hackteria - webplatform and collection of Open Source Biological Art Projects
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  Open Solar Outdoors Test Field - Solar photovoltaic testing
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  Open Source Physiology Lab- 3D printing physiology equipment
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  open ephys works on open-source electrophysiology
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  Backyard Brains - neuroscience experiment kits for DIY electrophysiology
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  Open source 3D-printed 1000 μL micropump
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  Approaches to Open Source 3-D Printable Probe Positioners and Micromanipulators for Probe Stations
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  Open Source Low-Cost Power Monitoring System
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  Open Source Digitally Replicable Lab-Grade Scales
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  Open Source Vacuum Oven Design for Low-Temperature Drying: Performance Evaluation for Recycled PET and Biomass
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  Open Source 3-D Printed ISO 8655 Compliant Multichannel Pipette
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  Modular Open-Source Design of Pyrolysis Reactor Monitoring and Control Electronics

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  Physics
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  Chemistry
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  Biology