Workshops
Open research workshops and resources
Open Source Hardware
Open source hardware practitioners freely share the complete design documentation of their physical research artefacts , allowing others within the research community to replicate, learn, use, modify and develop their own designs. By democratising access to hardware designs and fostering a culture of sharing and collaboration, open source hardware empowers research communities to create and innovate. This course provides a mentoring scheme to support physical research artefact practitioners to develop their own completely open source hardware projects and become trainers by disseminating the process within their institutions. The course curriculum can be found here.
Find out more about the UK Reproducilbility Network’s involvement in Open Hardware
Learning Objectives
- Describe the relevance of open source hardware
- Apply the principles of open source hardware to their own project
- Evaluate the appropriate method to share their work
- Acquire a competency in disseminating the information at a local level
Audience
Researchers at any career stage who are makers of Hardware or physical artefacts of research. Could have particular relevance to applied research, physical sciences, computer sciences. The course level is considered to be Introductory, but some prior training/teaching experience may be beneficial
Prerequisites
Currently developing physical artefacts of research. This course will provide you with the skills to disseminate sharing build information for open source hardware.
Completion Criteria
By the end of the course, trainers will have completed the following tasks:
- Developed their own completely open source hardware project with the support of one-to-one mentoring
- Planned their own sessions to disseminate the process within their institutions
Course completion will be signed off by individual mentors. Mentors will consider the progress of the project in this; however individuals will be continuously supported by their mentors. UKRN evaluation will be delivered via the Community of Practice.
Time Commitment
The course will run for 8 weeks with weekly meetings of one hour, alternating between group calls (with other course participants) and mentor calls. Participants are also expected to spend an additional 2-3 hours per week doing asynchronous independent work on the course content and project documentation.
Event Details
- Dates/times: In person sessions will be one hour on the following dates: 19/09/24, 26/09/24, 03/10/24, 10/10/24, 07/11/24, 14/11/24, 21/11/24, 28/11/24 (as trainers will be matched with a mentor, some of these sessions can potentially be rearranged to so that it is better suited for each mentor/mentee pair)
- Location: Online