Postit prompts
- Connecting OSH and FOSS efforts, specially to support common metadata practices.
- Broad metadata about projects?
- Adoption of standards - what is needed to make this happen?
- Hardware standards at least for common problems.
- Integrating OSH for platform-level standards in science.
- What does “platform” mean in this context?
- Methods of standardizing open hardware designs.
- About content: BOM, Design files, …
- About how to design: no black boxes, modularity, reusability, repairability.
- About how to implement: electronics, mechanics, whatever!
- How does open hardware gain credibility for use in academia. Eg. there is no standard for testing or calibration for DIY hardware.
- Being the “far superior” product.
- What does “for DIY hardware” mean? free?
- Do we need testing devices?
Facilitation ideas
- Come up with a standards game we can play.
- List of common problems and solutions.
- Example: “EMI noise countermeasures and related standards”.
- Micropipettes?
- Map each device to a standard.
- Make a list of first implementation steps towards standardization (isolation, not routing traces on top of each other in PCBs). Standard practices to build stuff. Make a booklet on critical things to watch out for. This is very related to design decisions.
- Make a list of testing tools (e.g. ventmon).
- Standardize interfaces between OSH devices.
Format
Options:
- Exploratory.
- Get work done: prepare a fanzine of common problems we know and how we fixed them. Towards the booklet.
Previous posts
- Standards and open science hardware - any experiences with designing to conform to standards?
- Standards in Open Science Hardware
- UNESCO launches a global consultation to develop a standard-setting instrument on Open Science
- DIN standard: Contribute to the development of an international open source hardware standard
- An opportunity to create an inclusive dialogue on OSH standards [help needed]