Laser and led driver
Venture Category: Scientific Instruments
Community: Sensorica
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Objectives
Objectives
Create an open source Laser and LED Driver.
This is a simple hand-held (battery operated) driver that can be used with any laser diode or LED (including UV, violet and blue as well as visible, red and IR). It can provide up to 100mA of precisely regulated current.
Description
Description
This device has been extensively tested at the SENSORICA lab in Montreal. It is now ready to be commercialized. Open manual
You can get involved in the design of the next generation.
Contents
Contents
Communication and coordination
Communication and coordination
Communication channels
Communication channels
Messaging: Discord channel
For more generic discussions: Open forum, Main Sensorica mailing list
Social media: Sensorica Facebook page
Coordination tools
Coordination tools
Planning
Planning
Notes
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Documentation repository
Documentation repository
Incentives
Incentives
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Economic model
Economic model
The short-term economic model for this venture is based mostly on public funding and crowdfunding.
The long-term economic model for this venture is built around open innovation and distributed manufacturing (DIY).
In short, for the long run, we're geared towards providing:
DIY kits (can be transactional kit sales) that provide required vitamins (non-digitally manufactured components) to build a particular tool (Zimmermann, 2014; Gibney, 2016).
Specialty parts / components, hard-to-find, custom (ex. BackYard Brains or OpenQCM both sell the most specialized and hardest to source components for their respective open hardware tools).
Help with calibrating and validating (scientific) hardware (can be transactional service) to provide security to prosumers who build their own tools. This provides prosumers with the confidence that their measurements or functionality are acceptably reproducible, accurate and precise.
Education / Training (ex. Open Source Ecology), include support. This can also follow the consulting business model (Fjelsted et al., 2012).
Ecosystem services: provide trust, validation, discoverability, help, a place to discuss and collaborate, etc.
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Agreements
Agreements
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