Open-Source Lab

How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Chemistry, Analytic, General Chemistry

• Author: Joshua M. Pearce
• ISBN: 9780124104860
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Publication: October 4, 2013
• Imprint: Elsevier
• Language: English

Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Scientific Research Costs details the development of the free and open-source hardware revolution. The combination of open-source 3D printing and microcontrollers running on free software enables scientists, engineers, and lab personnel in every discipline to develop powerful research tools at unprecedented low costs. After reading Open-Source Lab, you will be able to:

• Lower equipment costs by making your own hardware

• Build open-source hardware for scientific research

• Actively participate in a community in which scientific results are more easily replicated and cited

• Numerous examples of technologies and the open-source user and developer communities that support them

• Instructions on how to take advantage of digital design sharing

• Explanations of Arduinos and RepRaps for scientific use

• A detailed guide to open-source hardware licenses and basic principles of intellectual property