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Up and coming - Open Hardware Summit 2016 and Maker Faire Rome
There are two big events coming up in October. On 7th October Luka is travelling to Portland, where an annual Open Hardware Summit is happening. An event, which brings together professionals, artists...
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IRNAS visiting Portland
Luka is flying overseas at the end of this week. He’s participating at Open Hardware Summit 2016 on Friday afternoon, where the open hardware community will meet and discuss hot topics from the field....
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Institute IRNAS enters the field of bioprinting
Developing open source DIY bio-laboratory equipment on the one hand and daily using 3D printing as a developing tool on the other, one could argue that it was an expected next step to link the two....
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Meet us in San Francisco
At the end of this month Luka is visiting San Francisco.We invite all open source, open hardware enthusiasts to join us for the public event at The San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center, operated...
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Mushroom harvest!
It has been known for a while now that Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus eryngii, etc.) are so called saprotophs - meaning they grow on dead or decaying organic materials. As a result,...
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Koruza LED Ring Display and Event Demonstration
The challenge of demonstrating wireless optical communication with an invisible optical beam as with our KORUZA system is in showing the transmission of data with light, since it is difficult to have a...
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From Portland to London - Travel Summary
October has been the month of travel for our Luka Mustafa and the team, presenting wireless optical system KORUZA Pro, affordable digital manufacturing machines GoodenoughCNC and number of other open...
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Developing KORUZA Pro: Camera Module
Wireless optical system KORUZA and other FSO systems require that the units are pointed at each-other to be able to receive the collimated beam of light that transfers the data between them. Typically...
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Developing KORUZA Pro: Mounting System
Our next generation device KORUZA Pro will enable a versatile construction of last-mile networks to people’s homes and thus deliver them a faster internet service. To best cover all the possible...
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Fog particle size and FSO link attenuation with Malvern Spraytec instrument
We are interested in how our wireless optical system KORUZA operates in various environmental conditions and to better understand the signal loss mechanisms, we are conducting scientific experiments in...
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PreciseXY Generation 2
Last year we started developing a low cost platform for scientific applications, to enable scientists globally to simply automate research tasks, have computer controlled microscopes and use it in...
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Developing KORUZA Pro: The Enclosure
For Koruza Pro we wanted to find a solution for the sealing, such that the units would be easy to assemble, use small part count and be cheap for manufacturing. Until the version 2.3.1 we used an...
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KORUZA router design
KORUZA wireless optical system enables 1Gbps or 10Gbps communication with a collimated beam of light between two buildings. To interface and power the units, networking ports are required, we looked at...
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GoodEnoughCNC - Make for Good!
In the last year we proved that low-cost CNC milling and plasma cutting is technically feasible and that our approach of a “suitcase kit” works - we lowered the entry step in digital manufacturing and...
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Developing KORUZA Pro: Pivot system for lens movement
Optical wireless system KORUZA operates by directing a collimated beam of light towards another unit to establish communication. To be able to precisely aim a beam of light with a millimeter precision...
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Developing KORUZA Pro: Koruza Driver - Real-Time Controller
The Koruza driver is an additional board to Koruza router. Its main task is to handle the real-time parts of Koruza system, like stepper motors for the laser beam positioning, infrared communication...
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Integrated version of Safecast bGeigie
We created an integrated version of the bGeigie device, a mobile survey Geiger counter, by Safecast, who are working to empower people with data about their environments.Our PCB is based on original...
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Fab4Dev - Fabrication for Development
We believe open source knowledge and digital fabrication can serve as a platform for empowerment and life improvement since it enables local production of solutions a certain community needs as well as...
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Boštjan's travel log
The week framing the end of this year’s November and the beginning of December Boštjan from our Symbiolab was travelling North-West to foster new collaborations with colleagues from Germany and the...
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New Year, New Space, New Challenges!
Our team wishes everyone an open and a very successful 2017!For us already the very beginning of the year has been full of changes. With our product Koruza growing to the point of entering the...
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Luka Visiting 3D Bioprinting Conference in Maastricht
Once a year, this year for the fourth time, people from the fields related to medical 3D printing gather in Maastricht (NED) and share knowledge and experience. The 3D bioprinting conference in...
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KORUZA at 4YFN!
KORUZA is exhibiting at 4YFN 2017 in Barcelona!4YFN, the growing tech startup community, is the business platform of Mobile World Capital Barcelona and this year’s event, the fourth in a row as part of...
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Non-gluten-free 3D bioprinting
A while back, when Musti and Boštjan were visiting the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, we recieved a package of gluten for testing with Vitaprint - our 3D Bioprinter. Due to lack of temperature...
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Investigating medicinal effects of mushrooms
For the last couple of months, our symbiolab was hosting a high-school research project for the “Youth for the progress of Maribor (Mladi za napredek Maribora)” competition. Our guest student Gabriela...
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A new year of developing open hardware for applied systems is ahead of us...
We are really excited and proud our founder Luka Mustafa became a Shuttleworth Fellow for the third year and want to congratulate him at this occasion. Together we will continue our work of building...
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GoodEnoughCNC – some good and some not-so-good news
First, some good news – we’ve made several improvements to our GoodEnoughCNC Hybrid, which are simplifying the design and making the machine more robust.Z axis: We completely changed the structure of...
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Developing KORUZA Pro: Industrial Flavor of Raspberry Pi
Effective iteration cycles are very important part of the development of a new device. By doing a new version/iteration of the product you can enhance it in many different ways, which was done very...
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Developing KORUZA Pro: Koruza Driver - Part 2
We’ve come a long way since our last blog post on Koruza real time (move) driver with many improvements made to the system, including the changes to the real-time driver itself. The new structure of...
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Turtle Tag and Turtle Camera Enclosure Development to Help Save Sea Turtles
In the beginning of 2016 we have finished first series of open source turtle tag enclosures for Zoological Society of London. The tags, nicknamed “Pitstop tags” because of the design that enables...
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Collaborating with Safecast – Development and Fabrication of Solarcast
From the beginning of this year we have started, together with our fabrication company Fabrikor, several new partnerships with open hardware organizations within Shuttleworth Foundation and outside....
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Vitaprint team is preparing a joint research project
In the beginning of June, we were paid a visit by our friends from the Institute of Biomedical Mechatronics in Linz. In preparation of a joint research project, we set out to implement our Vitaprint...
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Building Hardware Following Open Source Principles
Since the beginning of this year we at Institute IRNAS and Fabrikor fabrication lab have started several exciting collaborations with organizations from around the world, helping them bring to life...
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Freeform gelatin microfluidics
In late 2015, Hinton et al. (see full article) published a widely cited article describing a method for freeform reversible embedding of suspended hydrogels, or FRESH for short. In summary, it allows...
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Symbiolab 2.0 and Vitaprint Release
A lot has happened in the last past year. With the moving of IRNAS to the new facilities, we also obtained a newer and especially more spacious bio-lab. While the time required to set-up full...
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Freeform Gelatin Microfluidics - Making a Meniscus
A few weeks ago we posted the news on our gelatin microfluidics, where we were able to show a successfully fabricated gelatin matrix with embedded perfusable vessels using Vitaprint. However, our...
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New Release – PiRA IoT Battery Pack
We’re announcing a new open hardware release, PiRA, a universal, modular IoT battery pack, developed as a response to the lack of IoT suitable battery pack or powerbank systems that can be easily and...
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Gabi got the Krka research prize!
At IRNAS we are trying to build an open organization, welcoming talented young people and giving them an opportunity to explore and further develop their potentials by working on exciting projects...
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Testing of the Pitstop Turtle Tag Enclosures
Do you still remember an affordable open source turtle tags, used to track and acquire spatial and behavioral data of the endangered green sea turtles, we helped developed last year? This project is...
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Arboreal Monitoring Platform for Amazon rainforest
A couple of months ago we were approached by Alasdair Davies, a founder of the Arribada Initiative, with whom we are already collaborating on the development of endangered sea turtle monitoring tags....
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Development of the finger clamp for Glia Pulse Oximeter
On this blog we haven’t shared anything about a very promising initiative we’ve been involved in for a couple of months now. In the beginning of the year we’ve been approached by Tarek Loubani to help...
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Silard Gal’s Summer Internship
In one of the previous blog posts we wrote about a young prodigy Gabriela, who was researching in our Symbiolab. Today we’d like to share the story of another really talented young student, who is now...
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We build it future-proof!
We develop for today’s needs while having in mind the tomorrow by making all our hardware solutions future-proof. But what exactly do we mean by this?Future-proof hardware ensures effective ownership...
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Investigating Angelshark acoustic tag attachment methods
Last month Blaž and Luka participated in the Angelshark acoustic tag attachment workshop hosted at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). The aim of this workshop was to identify the best approach to...
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Making earlobe shaped channels using Vitaprint
This week we are reporting on our progress in fabricating freeform perfusable vessel systems in biocompatible hydrogels. We have previously been successful in fabricating 2D branched perfusable...
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Drone assisted TTN network roll-out on Principe Island for Green Sea Turtle...
Green sea turtles are an endangered species and most vulnerable during the nesting period when they converge on sandy beaches. Working with the Arribada Initiative and Principe trust we have designed...
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Drone Mapping for LoRa and IoT Communications
In the last decade drones and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in general have proven to be one of the great technological developments with a range of applications from recreational hobby use to...
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Animal Conservation with LoraWAN - turtles, fish and more
Understanding the animal behavior, changes in the natural environment and effects of climate change on our ecosystems can be efficiently observed with the latest digital technologies and IoT devices....
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IRNAS Outdoor LoraWAN Gateway
The growing number of sensors and connected devices with LoraWAN technology enables anything from sea turtle monitoring to MCCI power consumption and optimization monitoring and a wide range of other...
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Vitaprint now has manual flow control!
When working with custom materials and a broad range of nozzles, adjusting extrusion during the printing process is crucial for fast settings optimization. With the new version of PlanetCNC and the...
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JOB OPENING - We are looking for two Electronics Engineers!
We are seeking two Electronics engineers to join our team in Maribor, Slovenia.Detailed position description in SloveneLooking forward to your applications!
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