GOSH Shenzhen-- introduce yourself!

Hi! I’m pixel and I’m an artist and project manager from Brazil.

I created and coordinate Rede InfoAmazonia, that created Mãe d’Água (MD), an OSH to monitor water parameters. The project started as a community science research in 2014 and was funded by a prize from the Google Impact Challenge Brazil until 2016. After that, five universities in Brazil got involved in the research. More about Rede InfoAmazonia in a video (“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t60jJCaQEM”) and text (“http://rede.infoamazonia.org/sobre/”).

Also, I got involved in DustDuino, an OSH to monitor particles in the air. A video from an action we made in Brazil: https://vimeo.com/158494365

I’m taking with me Jandig, a project about augmented reality. Inspired in a Jules Verne book, I’m in sticking 80 markers around the world in a 20 days trip.

I’m looking forward to talking to people interested in water and air quality, and I’m especially interested in meet people that are using data/sensors to create art.

I’m on GitHub, Twitter and Instagram, feel free to send me a message there. =)

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Pixel, I’m looking forward to meeting you–we have a lot in common. :smile:

Hey everyone! This is Anirudh Goel.

Anirudh is a software developer and he is currently working in a Data Science based startup, in India.
He likes to code to create interesting stuff. Anirudh is just getting started with his career journey and unlike most of the people in this forum, he doesn’t have a long list of achievements. Though, there are a few things that he feels proud to tell about-

  • CERN Summer Student 2017
  • been associated with Mozilla’s Open Web initiative for more than 3 years
  • been to several different hackathons and won some of them
  • an open source contributor

He loves learning and working on different technologies, and makes small projects on them to have hands-on experience. You can find those projects, along with more information about him, on his portfolio website - https://anirudhgoel.me

Contact him anytime to talk about technology, finance, Sherlock or the latest Apple hardware/software updates, and offcourse for a Coffee. :smiley:

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Hi all, I am Julian Stirling,

I am a Post-Doc in the Physics Department the University of Bath. I have worked in a number of physics subfields generally doing instrumentation; from building scanning probe microscopes and optomechanical sensors for radiation pressure experiments, to improving equipment for precision mass metrology and for measuring the universal constant of Gravitation. As an committed open-source software zealot, I had always wanted to move into open hardware. I moved to January in Bath to work on the open science hardware including the 3D printed OpenFlexure microscope. I work closely with STICLab in Tanzania developing both the OpenFlexure microscope and measurement tools for testing the mechanical properties of printed objects.

Hello, everybody!
My name is Ippolit Markelov, I`m a science artist from Russia.
Since completing my PhD in 2012, I have gone studying ecology to becoming an independent Art & Science researcher. At 2014, I founded the Science Art Group 18 apples as a collaboration between an artist, a molecular biologist and an IT specialist. Our artistic works have been shown at exhibitions and festivals at leading Russian and international venues of Modern Art, such as Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Garage, Polytechnic Museum, 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ars Electronica (Austria, 2017).

In addition, we works with our colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University on an Open Source Projects for Science.

I will bring some of the devices to show and I hope that I`ll take part at GOSH Public Event @ X-Factory with our project “MetabolA.I.” shown at Ars Electronica last year.

At the GOSH our group are interested in non-invasive medical/bio data sensors, CNC platforms for bio-printing and in using bioengineering methods for a biohacking.

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Hi I’m Tobey (Tobias Wenzel, @MakerTobey on twitter),

I am a post-doc scientist at www.EMBL.org. In my research I work on the bacteria in our gut (microbiome) with genetics in droplet microfluidics. I also build and promote open hardware. I was part of both previous GOSH and am excited to meet you.

As one of the main outcome of the first GOSH at CERN, we founded the Journal of Open Hardware. I am editor-in-chief with @unixjazz. Have a look at it and consider publishing your project(s) there! You are also welcome to join our open hardware communication initiative as editor, reviewer or else.

Before the Journal, I founded the Open Source Hardware documentation standard DocuBricks, and an online repository where the documentations are automatically rendered nicely. Check it out! Many GOSH projects are there and many of these documentations have been used in academic publications:

https://www.docubricks.org/search.jsp

I am currently Open Knowledge Fellow of the Germany Wikimedia Foundation, together with @amchagas (Wikiversity:Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen – Wikiversity).
Together with you I want to liberate microfluidics by assessing openess of the field in a review article. We are also building relevant hardware pieces and test them. Here we focus on research grade equipment and not outreach style projects. If you are interested, please get in touch and participate!

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Hello everyone!

So, this is my turn before our lovely meeting in China. My name is Analía Aspis, I am researcher and lawyer specialized on ICT for the past 16 years and recently founder of Weiba Foundation (one year and a bit more old), an NGO based in Argentina (Buenos Aires) which promotes projects and persons that wants to make people lives better throguh technology. (www.fundacionweiba.org/en and www.fundacionweiba.org/zh).

This is my first GOSH and I more than excited to learn from you, to discuss how we can implement your ideas for social development and to create networks to link Argentinean scientists with all your projects and organizations.
I am really seeking to find opportunites that involve great impact on communities!
Looking forward to meet, discuss and learn from all of you!

Cheers,
Analía
Weiba Foundation

Hi all. This is Vicky from Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab. Welcome all of you to Shenzhen!!

Just want to pop up and send a notice that SZOIL is going to host a Belt and Road Forum event during the Shenzhen Maker Week on October 9 in the afternoon from 14:30-17:30 at Sino-Finnish Design Park (where our lab based). Happy to invite GOSH members and participants who are interested in it to come and join us! Especially participants from countries and regions along the Belt and Road.

We have posted the event to the public today. Please kindly check the promotion WeChat links for both Chinese and English and feel free to spread it in your network and GOSH network. Thank you very much!

Chinese version
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/R8j0Ohy77uNE3h1JDJllHQ

English version
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/i76R9M0TpBP9xG6rtbW_5Q

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Hello everyone!

So, this is my turn before our lovely meeting in China. My name is Analía Aspis, I am researcher and lawyer specialized on ICT for the past 16 years and recently founder of Weiba Foundation (one year and a bit more old), an NGO based in Argentina (Buenos Aires) which promotes projects and persons that wants to make people lives better throguh technology. (www.fundacionweiba.org) This is my first GOSH and I more than excited to learn from you, to discuss how we can implement your ideas for social development and to create networks to link Argentinean scientists with all your projects and organizations.
I am really seeking to find opportunites that involve great impact on communities!
Looking forward to meet, discuss and learn from all of you!
Cheers,
Analía
Weiba Foundation

Hi all,

I am Shubhi Saxena - a software developer and data scientist based out of India. I started a makerspace calledInnovation Garage, NIT Warangal while in college and it’s currently running in its 4th year. (I have graduated from college and am a mentor for Innovation Garage now). Till date, we have won hundreds of competitions, conducted hundreds of workshops, 10+ hackathons, etc. for students in and around college. Recently, we collaborated with researchers from Cambridge to work on Drone Surveillance and Image Processing. Lots of interesting projects in the pipeline there.

Now I want to start a makerspace in Hyderabad - the city where I live and am looking for ideas to make hardware more open and accessible to citizen scientists and farmers of India, eventually leading to Grassroot Innovation.
Looking forward to meet!

Thanks,
Shubhi

Hi everybody. I’m Fernando, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. I develop open source DIY didactic toys, building blocks systems mainly focused in tensegrity and geodesic structures. We try to develop affordable systems to help teaching tech and science in vulnerable communities. Project is called Alquimétricos and Alquibots (the techy version).
Thank you all for this opportunity to learn and share
Fernando

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I am Laura Olalde, I come from Argentina and I got involved in open science hardware when doing my artistic research with biomaterilas and living matter processes when I found that I needed to count on the appropiate devices and tools handly at my studio and also to share how to make them with others, specially in constructive and collective learning processes.
This year at GOSH I expect to learn again with others and specially to help spreading the goals of GOSH through my rol as documentation team coordinator. You are welcome to join us! You can find me in WeChat, my ID is lauraolalde18
Hope to see you all soon!

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Hello! I’m Anna, from the UK. I’m working on how to make manufacturing (of all kinds of things) more local, especially in the Global South where global supply chains don’t work well. I see Open Hardware as a key part of that.
I’m also a co-founder of Kumasi Hive in Ghana, and was at AfricaOSH there in April this year. I also met a few GOSHers at the pre-GOSH summit at CERN last year, but sadly I couldn’t attend Santiago. Can’t wait for this one!
I arrived in Shenzhen yesterday but I have meetings and factory visits today and tomorrow. See you Wednesday!
I’m keen to talk to people interested in documentation standards for open hardware, as under the MakerNet Alliance (www.makernetaliance.org) we’re starting up a working group on that. Ask me if you’d like to know more!

Hi every one,
I am Rockets Xia from Mushroomcloud Makerspace Shanghai.
Mushroomcloud is a makerspace in Pudong Shanghai China, we try to spare the maker sprite to China.
We have coprate with Green Seed and DFRobot to make a KnowFlow water monitor system.
We hope the KnowFlow system can help people know the flow more convenience and easy.
I hope more people can help KnowFlow grow up.

Hi friends,

I’m Tony Yet from Guangzhou, China. I am a writer and translator by profession, on the side, I am also a TEDx organizer. My involvement with open source / citizen science dates back to a blog that I started which communicates citizen science in Chinese a while back. Have since move on to work on community building and some policy research work at Good Lab in Hong Kong. More recently, I am helping with the Public Lab Barnraising unconference in Guangzhou. See you soon in two days!

Tony

Hi all, I am Shan He from Guangzhou. I live in a eco-friendly community and teach science in a local school. My previous work regarding environmental injustice investigations brought me to Public Lab. Currently we are organizing the first China Barnraising on our island. Also with Rockets we develop KnowFlow, not only water monitoring hardware but also and open science education in China.
I enjoying cooking, dancing, making and sleeping. currently practise stopping.

大家好,我是何珊,来自广州长洲岛。我之前从事环境调查很多年,现在在本地中学教科学。很期待而大家一起玩。

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This is Moritz, am a German physicist who lives and works in the UK, researching renewable energies, in particular emerging solar cell technologies. If we manage to get our solar cells to work well in the British weather, then they should work anywhere;-). Starting a new group and laboratory from scratch came with some challenges, but also with opportunities. One of the opportunities we are trying to implement from the start is building our laboratory around the concepts of “Open Science” as much as it is possible. We are an experimental physics lab and we need lots of equipment, both for the fabriation and the characterisation of our solar cells. For example, Grey Christoforo, a former PostDoc in my group, built a spray coater for our research, based on the popular open source RepRap 3D printer (http://afmd.github.io/LANDS), which came in at a fraction of the cost of the commercially system we had found. The current focus of our open science work is on open hardware for the characterisation of solar cells, from simple current-voltage characteristics to more sophisticated optoelectronic measurements, hoping that many groups around the world working on renewable energies can benefit from this. I am really excited to participate in GOSH this year!

More information on our research is on https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/research/afmd-group

Looking forward to meeting you all this week!

Moritz

If anyone wants to reach me, search for @flor_esta or @flor_esta_ on many social medias

was it you who did the laser cutting on the day that Urs didn’t show up for the unconf session??
If so, do you remember who came to do it with you (Eduardo and ?? Tony Yet? )?
Hope the start of 2019 is going very well for you!
best,
Rachel