Thank you @Rachel, @haris, and @julianstirling for the additional input! Really loving hearing your stories. 
We can’t have good science if we don’t have Open Science Hardware.
This really jibes with what I often say when talking about open science, i.e. “Good science is open science”. I’m planning to use this line in an upcoming talk about OScH at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference in a couple weeks, and will try to learn from your stories!
P.S. I’ve also linked to this thread in my collective knowledge thread, because this stuff is worth archiving!