Hi All
opensource.com would like to do an article/series highlighting projects from the community including some how-tos, tied in to the pubication of the GOSH Roadmap
Does anyone
a) have an interest in writing for opensource.com?
b) have a project with a nice how-to tutorial that they would like to be featured?
c) both of the above!
Jenny
Iām not sure about āniceā but I certainly have a reasonably extensive set of build instructions. Iām very happy to get involved with writing something 
Thanks @rbowman! Do you think a deadline of 25 Feb would be OK to get something together? Is anyone else interested in co-authoring?
I fit a) but maybe a bit lacking in b). I did give a talk at FOSDEM aimed at getting beginners up to speed on how assemble open source hardware electronics projects and I think it could be adapted to a blog form. The video recording is not up yet, (should be a day or so max) but the slides are available (warning, thereās big video that needs to load on the first slide).
Maybe I could take an existing open source hardware electronics project that has a direct scientific application, get the documentation up to scratch (put it up on kitspace.org) and then write the instructions based on that. Does anyone know a good candidate?
I gave it some more thought and maybe The Riffle water monitor could be a good candidate. I also have the electronics for @amchagas FlyPi that I have been meaning to assemble but I believe a revision of this version has been on the table for a while so it may soon be out of date.
@rbowman, if I remember correctly your OpenFlexure microscope has no custom electronics. Do you have any projects with custom electronics that could do with going over with my bill of materials tools? Alternatively, I could also help with instructions for embedded software setup (Arduino, RasPi etc).
Hey, the microscope itself doesnāt have any electronics, but our motor controller does - the PCB for that wasnāt designed by me, but it is available on github. Currently the only ādocumentationā for the electronics is the board layout - any suggestions/assistance gratefully received!
The software is currently in a state of advanced disorganisation, but will definitely be in need of some documentation once Iāve got it in a more manageable stateā¦
I am!!! Although I am not sure my tutorial fits the proposalā¦
What is the tutorial @edu.biomusical ?
I booted up a currently very empty google doc and will get back in touch with opensource.com tomorrow with an initial list of authors and timing:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bl1LMnoNLME3fP-6TYqaoXJDDYM8FKa0KngpXq6kjc4/edit?usp=sharing
@jcm80 the tutorial is on āHow to build your own centrifugeā
You cab check here if it fits what youāre thinking for this publication: http://2016.igem.org/Team:USP_UNIFESP-Brazil/Hardware
If so, me and a friend could co-author!
Hi Hi!
Sorry, maybe I am too late to the party, but this would be a great push for me to properly document the new version of the flypi (@kaspar you are right, we have revised things and the PCB changed a bit. the new version can be found here https://github.com/prometheus-science/Flypi). There are less components and more user friendly plugs
Anyway, Iāll take a look at the document @jcm80 put up and see if I can still collaborate, if not I might document it anyway 
@kaspar, if you want to do something together, we can also do that!
Hey,
Also a bit late but I could add an article about our test tube photometer. I recently wrote some instructions for our website. I can extend it a bit to fit into opensource.com
http://openplant.science/2017/12/09/photometer-shopping-list.html
Best,
Alex
Hi All
OK, great so that is four tutorials. I got the impression from the opensource.com contact that we could make it a bit of a series, so Iāll get back in touch with them and suggest:
Final decision will be with opensource.com editor - Iāll respond here as soon as I hear back from them!
Jenny
Cool, thanks Jenny!
On a related note, has anyone seen this: http://www.dozuki.com/features/ Maybe you have comments and opinions about it?
The charge for use, but there seems to be a plan for open source initatives that is free (money wise I suppose, as it seems that all documentation is hosted in a central location).
I interacted with this platform when fixing phones using the ifixit.com tutorials, and thought it was a nice systemā¦
That looks cool - they have a āopen sourceā plan, but does that mean your project needs to be open source, or the software they provide you is open source?
I think it means that your project needs to be open sourceā¦
as I understand their system is web based, so no things to downloadā¦ I might be wrong thoughā¦ had no time to explore further so farā¦
It seems like a they made a good service, though unfortunately proprietary. I have also only been on the receiving side, so looking at repair instructions not making them. There was a good interview with the iFixit CEO on the Engineering Commons Podcast a while back where they discussed this platform quite a bit.
Hey you all!
@jcm80 I agree that safety is an issue. I have a friend working on improving the centrifuge design. I can include him and ask for advice. Anyway, we believe to have achieved a safe design in the tutorial I shared here.
Let me know what you think!
Eduardo
@edu.biomusical Great - Iām interested so would be useful to hear his thoughts!
@kaspar @amchagas @rbowman the opensource.com editor thought that the microscope designs would be of most general interest and would like information about the Roadmap and OScH in general bundled into the technical article. Would you be happy to prepare the tutorial materials? When would be a reasonable deadline?
@edu.biomusical @vektor would you still be up for being co-authors on the overall article? Also, it would be great to highlight your projects on the GOSH website - @jarancio and @biomakers_lab and I have been cooking up plans for more content there!
Jenny
Hey @edu.biomusical I have been checking different designs for low-cost centrifuges and I agree with @jcm80, itās really important to share information about how to build safe centrifuge. I could help you w/ technical information or specifications based on the available literature. What do you think?
@jcm80 Sure! I would be up for both, co-authoring and highlighting the project on the GOSH website
Did I get this right, basically they just want one (technical) article about the microscope including information about Roadmap and OScH?
And for the GOSH website. Do you think about implementing a project section ?