Open science hardware replicator - good first tools

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I am helping out with a new NSF grant that @peek got at her lab at UW.

We will be getting an employee whose job it will be to recreate and review existing open science tools (specifically open laboratory tools).

So like for instance, i am sure at some point they will recreate a science jubilee and an open flexure microscope. They will

  • build the device

  • Test it out through some sort of full use case

  • Provide feedback on the documentation, build, BOM, and any tweaks or modifications they needed

Which is such a cool resource to have around.

So i want to help this person out with two things:

A) I want to compile a list for this person of cool open science tools out there to recreate.

B) recommend good first projects for them to replicate to go through their whole process. For instance, maybe the science jubilee will take a while to build and use, but maybe there’s a popular, simple open science tool out there that a person could build test and review in like a week, just to test out their full workflow.

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At sussex University we worked on a number of open science tools. The repository might be a great place to get some simple tools to replicate and trial.

My recommendation would be this tool: GitHub - Sussex-Neuroscience/skin_thermal_stimulator: an open system to control temperature at human skin

Please feel free to dig around for more and I am happy to offer some level of support.

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