Arduino use: MOST

To get started see: Arduino installation

MOST uses Arduinos for a number of our projects including all of our RepRap 3-D printers and Building research equipment with free, open-source hardware for Open-source labs:

Open-source metal 3-D printer
Open-source colorimeter
Recyclebot
Open-source mobile water quality testing platform
Open-source 3D-printable optics equipment
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In the literature

MOST

Pearce, Joshua M. 2012. “Building Research Equipment with Free, Open-Source Hardware.” Science 337 (6100): 1303–1304.
J.M. Pearce, Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs, Elsevier, 2014
Gerald C. Anzalone, Chenlong Zhang, Bas Wijnen, Paul G. Sanders and Joshua M. Pearce, “Low-Cost Open-Source 3-D Metal Printing” IEEE Access, 1, pp.803-810, (2013).

doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2013.2293018 open access preprint

Amberlee S. Haselhuhn, Eli J. Gooding, Alexandra G. Glover, Gerald C. Anzalone, Bas Wijnen, Paul G. Sanders, Joshua M. Pearce. Substrate Release Mechanisms for Gas Metal Arc 3-D Aluminum Metal Printing. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing. 1(4): 204-209 (2014). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2014.0015
Anzalone GC, Glover AG, Pearce JM. Open-Source Colorimeter. Sensors. 2013; 13(4):5338-5346. doi:10.3390/s130405338 open access
Christian Baechler, Matthew DeVuono, and Joshua M. Pearce, “Distributed Recycling of Waste Polymer into RepRap Feedstock” Rapid Prototyping Journal, 19(2), pp. 118-125 (2013). open access
Bas Wijnen, G. C. Anzalone and Joshua M. Pearce, Open-source mobile water quality testing platform. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 4(3) pp. 532–537 (2014). doi:10.2166/washdev.2014.137 open access
Zhang C, Anzalone NC, Faria RP, Pearce JM (2013) Open-Source 3D-Printable Optics Equipment. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59840. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059840 open access

External

Baden, T., Chagas, A. M., Gage, G., Marzullo, T., Prieto-Godino, L. L., & Euler, T. (2015). Open Labware: 3-D Printing Your Own Lab Equipment. PLOS Biology, 13(3). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002086 http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002086
Trilles, S., Luján, A., Belmonte, Ó., Montoliu, R., Torres-Sospedra, J. and Huerta, J., 2015. SEnviro: a sensorized platform proposal using open hardware and open standards. Sensors, 15(3), pp.5555-5582. [1]
Kubínová, S. and Šlégr, J., 2015. ChemDuino: Adapting Arduino for Low-Cost Chemical Measurements in Lecture and Laboratory. Journal of Chemical Education, 92(10), pp.1751-1753. [2]
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Lim, H., Park, J., Lee, D., & Kim, H. J. (2012). Build your own quadrotor: Open-source projects on unmanned aerial vehicles. Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, 19(3), 33-45.
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Russell, L., Steele, A. L., & Goubran, R. (2012, May). Low-cost, rapid prototyping of IMU and pressure monitoring system using an open source hardware design. In Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2012 IEEE International (pp. 2695-2699). IEEE.
Nikolaou, Panayiotis, Aaron M. Coffey, Laura L. Walkup, Brogan M. Gust, Nicholas Whiting, Hayley Newton, Scott Barcus et al. "Near-unity nuclear polarization with an open-source 129Xe hyperpolarizer for NMR and MRI." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, no. 35 (2013): 14150-14155.
Fobel, R., Fobel, C., & Wheeler, A. R. (2013). DropBot: An open-source digital microfluidic control system with precise control of electrostatic driving force and instantaneous drop velocity measurement. Applied Physics Letters, 102(19), 193513.
Gualda, E. J., Vale, T., Almada, P., Feijó, J. A., Martins, G. G., & Moreno, N. (2013). OpenSpinMicroscopy: an open-source integrated microscopy platform. Nature methods, 10(7), 599-600.
Gonzalez-Gomez, J., Valero-Gomez, A., Prieto-Moreno, A., & Abderrahim, M. (2012). A new open source 3d-printable mobile robotic platform for education. In Advances in autonomous mini robots (pp. 49-62). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Hirafuji, M., Yoichi, H., Kiura, T., Matsumoto, K., Fukatsu, T., Tanaka, K., ... & Suzuki, T. (2011, September). Creating high-performance/low-cost ambient sensor cloud system using OpenFS (open field server) for high-throughput phenotyping. In SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2011 Proceedings of (pp. 2090-2092). IEEE.* Teikari, P., Najjar, R. P., Malkki, H., Knoblauch, K., Dumortier, D., Gronfier, C., & Cooper, H. M. (2012). An inexpensive Arduino-based LED stimulator system for vision research. Journal of neuroscience methods, 211(2), 227-236.
Zachariadou, K., Yiasemides, K., & Trougkakos, N. (2012). A low-cost computer-controlled Arduino-based educational laboratory system for teaching the fundamentals of photovoltaic cells. European Journal of Physics, 33(6), 1599.
Newman, J. P., Zeller-Townson, R., Fong, M. F., Desai, S. A., Gross, R. E., & Potter, S. M. (2012). Closed-loop, multichannel experimentation using the open-source NeuroRighter electrophysiology platform. Frontiers in neural circuits, 6.*
Pineño, O. (2014). ArduiPod Box: A low-cost and open-source Skinner box using an iPod Touch and an Arduino microcontroller. Behavior research methods, 46(1), 196-205.
Sun, R., Bouchard, M. B., & Hillman, E. (2010). SPLASSH: Open source software for camera-based high-speed, multispectral in-vivo optical image acquisition. Biomedical optics express, 1(2), 385-397.
Chelli, K., & Chavhan, S. (2013). Development of wireless sensor node to monitor poultry farm. In Mobile Communication and Power Engineering (pp. 27-32). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Kentzer, J., Koch, B., Thiim, M., Jones, R. W., & Villumsen, E. (2011, May). An open source hardware-based mechatronics project: The replicating rapid 3-D printer. In Mechatronics (ICOM), 2011 4th International Conference On (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
Koenka, I. J., Sáiz, J., & Hauser, P. C. (2014). Instrumentino: An open-source modular Python framework for controlling Arduino based experimental instruments. Computer Physics Communications, 185(10), 2724-2729.
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Shajahan, A. H., & Anand, A. (2013, April). Data acquisition and control using arduino-android platform: Smart plug. In Energy Efficient Technologies for Sustainability (ICEETS), 2013 International Conference on (pp. 241-244). IEEE.