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GoodEnoughCNC empowering Nepal community
Our GoodEnoughCNC Hybrid found its way to Nepal, where enthusiastic young makers have built it from a suitcase kit and are now using it for their community projects.Sharing the idea of empowering...
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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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DIY clean box
Working with micro organisms requires sterile (or almost) conditions, to keep cultures pure and prevent infections. When working with culture media it is especially crucial to do it with great care....
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DIY spectrometry
Symbiolab added a new device to our DIY labware repository. Based on the designs from PublicLab and the hackaday prize entry by Brian Benchoff, we built a simple UV-Vis spectrometer for the analysis of...
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Report from Ars Electronica Festival
For the first time ever, we had the opportunity to present our work at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival. Now already traditionally combining art and technology while posing ethical and...
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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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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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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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