1- Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf).
Andrew Quitmeyer - Dinalab
- Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.
Digital Naturalism - Jungle Tech Workshop Series
- Email address by which you may be contacted.
- What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?
Arduino
3D printing
Raspberry Pi
Arducam
OpenCV
OpenFlexure
- Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.
At Digital Naturalism Labs (Dinalab) in Gamboa, Panama, we have been doing free weekly consulting and workshops about open science hardare for the community of local artists and scientists who live in the rainforest surrounding us. Because we ran out of a lot of our original budget, we haven’t had many of these workshops over the past couple years.
This would be a series of 6 weekly workshops open to the public. Each workshop would run around 3 hours including all materials participants may need (they should supply their own laptop if possible). We will work with about 10-14 participants at a time. The workshops will provide an introduction to help focus on a different open-science hardware techniques such as
-Arduino - Sensors
-Arduino - Stimulators
-Wireless Radio Communication
-Camera Traps (and hacking them)
-3D printing
-Mold making
-Raspberry Pi
-Computer Vision
-3D Scanning
-Electronics, Soldering, and Circuit Making
-Intro to Open Source Software for project management and workflows
-DIY Open Source Microscopy
-Intro to GOSH-like communities
- Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.
These actvities are the main goal of our lab 
We have done it in the past, and will do it in the future. The grant will help us kickstart these activities sooner and be better able to provide longer lasting, more organized teaching outputs for others to use and build off. This set of workshops will also help us apply for more funding to continue these activities in a professional way!
- What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?
I plan to patent and copyright all the teaching materials (ahahhah JK), - I will openly share all the materials we use to teach and what comes out of it on the forums, licensed as public domain as we can (for libraries and stuff we make use of, we will use whatever their open license is)
- What you will use the grant for, roughly.
-$250 will go towards project time for us to document and share the resources
-$200 will go towards extra electronics and consumables to teach with
-$50 will go towards helping transportation costs for locals who want to attend but couldn’t make it to the workshops without additional funds.
- Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects
can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.
We run REALLY big MONTHS LONG workshops about open science hardware: www.dinacon.org
and we share everything we make open source.
Also helped run the latest GOSH in panama!