Join us on 18 June starting 14:30 for an exciting event on Open Hardware! Discover the transformative power of open-source hardware in academia at our university-wide gathering. Explore its vital role in shaping the future of technology.

Open hardware, or open-source hardware, is hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware based on that design. This Open Hardware event aims to further embed open-source hardware into the Open Science movement at the VU and will be the starting point for building a VU-wide community.

Program:

14:00 – 14:30         Doors open, Coffee & Tea

14:30 – 14:35         Opening by Sander Bosch

14:35 – 15:00         Jerry de Vos - Open Source Hardware at TU Delft

15:00 – 15:20         Sanli Faez - Open Source Hardware for the Common Good

15:20 – 15:40         Sander Baas - DIY Hardware: Or how to stop worrying and learn to build some pumps

15:40 – 16:00         Coffee break

16:00 – 16:20         Anna Bon, André Baart & Francis Saa-Dittoh – The Kasadake project (“talking box” in Ghanees)

16:20 – 16:40         Wouter Halfwerk – Open Hardware Robot Finches

16:40 – 17:00         Alvise de Faveri Tron – Security research on Open Hardware CPUs

17:00 – ….             Drinks

About the Speakers

Sanli Faez is associate professor at Utrecht University and Open Science Lead at the National Climate Research Initiative KIN

Jerry de Vos, Open Science Program at Delft University

Sander Baas has a Molecular Life Sciences background and is interested in Life Sciences and engineering. He works on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Hardware development and related topics, such as microfluidics and liquid handling equipment at Wageningen University

Anna Bon, André Baart & Francis Saa-Dittoh, VU University

Wouter Halfwerk, associate professor at Faculty of Science, Ecology and Evolution, VU University

Alvise de Faveri Tron, is a Ph.D. student at the Vrije University's System Security group. His research currently focuses on finding microarchitectural vulnerabilities in CPU designs and assessing their impact on software security.

Date: Tuesday 18th June 2024

Time: 14.30h – 17.00h

Location: Aurora room (Main building VU)

Language: English

For whom: All VU scientific staff and PhD students involved/interested in Open Science and in particular open hardware (please forward this invitation to any colleagues that might be interested in attending!)

Registration: please register below (drinks are free😉)

Open Hardware case: Are you interested in showcasing your open hardware project? Please send an e-mail to: [email protected]

Kind regards, also on behalf of the organizing team, Lena Karvovskaya and Sander Bosch,

Ties van Rappard