🛠️Open Hardware
A sensing Tool to collect meaningful data for your Fab City Hub
What is it about and why is it relevant ?
Key to any citizen sensing initiative or experiment is to define what technology is most suited to measure what it is needed to know. Usually, commercially available sensors are expensive and cannot be adjusted. Open hardware has available device blueprints open to download and adapt to the initiative’s needs, but this would require some technical knowledge and expertise. There could be someone from the FCH’s community who has this knowledge, or it could often be found in Fab Labs or makerspaces, being a good excuse to approach and engage with them.
As part of the Citizen Sensing Toolkit, this tool ( P.92) is part of a wider framework for citizen sensing projects. It is suggested to read the tool’s information in this context so FCHs and the communities running them can understand better when and how to implement it. This particular step in the process (choosing a specific type of Open Hardware) might be useful in the CENTRINNO approach to run experiments on data gathering and management that align with some of the Hub’s objectives. The experiments could be even part of the implementation strategy of the hub. Deploying sensors around the neighbourhood linked to other stakeholders and organisations’ spaces could contribute to the deployment of a distributed hub.
Find here a preview to the Citizen Sensing Toolkit that you can download :
Summary Table
| Characteristics | |
|---|---|
Purpose | |
Difficulty | Difficult |
Duration | Several weeks to several months, depending on design |
Facilitator I Participants | Not relevant |
Setting | Offline |
Contact | http://making-sense.eu/ (IAAC and Waag) |
Tagging System | #InnovationSpaces, #VocationalTraining |
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