Since the CCCamp is coming up (Call for participation/sunbathing: CCCamp 2019 - August 21-25 (north of Berlin)) I remembered that we wanted to share pictures and a short summary on our open science hardware assembly at 35C3:
The assembly was run by @kaspar, Mishkat, @moritz_lablab and myself. @saadcaffeine and @sam were also at the congress with their own groups.
@kaspar had printed large posters and banners which made our desk quite attractive. Most of the neighbouring desks didn’t have much to share so ours turned into a little hot spot. A lot of people which randomly passed by actually stayed and wanted to know more about the OpenFlexure and FlyPi microscopes, the neuron simulator, my radioactivity detectors (we had all 4 projects on display and in use) and why the hell we are doing this and care about open science hardware.
Personally, I remember a stimulating discussion with a scientist heading a research group on quantum dots (his PhD student told him to go to the CCC congress :-). Another visitor had the necessary medical tools in his pocket to draw a little blood sample which allowed us to watch blood cells via our microscopes.
All in all it was a pretty successful way to do outreach, have fun & catch up with GOSHers and learn a lot of unexpected new stuff (I bought my first FPGA board at the openFPGA assembly despite being a die-hard embedded multi-core advocate for years ;).
People which are recognisable in the pictures have been ask for permission.