Haves and have nots must find a better way: The case for open scientific hardware

A ‘smart’ tube holder enables real-time sample monitoring in a standard lab centrifuge

(2018) Tony Hoang et al.   PLoS One

Low cost and open source multi-fluorescence imaging system for teaching and research in biology and bioengineering

(2017) Isaac Nuñez et al.   PLoS One

A versatile and low-cost open source pipetting robot for automation of toxicological and ecotoxicological bioassays

(2017) Sebastian Steffens et al.   PLoS One

Open Labware: 3-D Printing Your Own Lab Equipment

(2015) Tom Baden et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Better Software, Better Research

(2014) Carole Goble   IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING

Low-Cost Mobile Phone Microscopy with a Reversed Mobile Phone Camera Lens

(2014) Neil A. Switz et al.   PLoS One

Open-source nanotechnology: Solutions to a modern intellectual property tragedy

(2013) Joshua M. Pearce   Nano Today

Building Research Equipment with Free, Open-Source Hardware

(2012) J. M. Pearce   SCIENCE

Effectiveness of medical equipment donations to improve health systems: how much medical equipment is broken in the developing world?

(2011) Lora Perry et al.   MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTING