Hardware represents a significant barrier to research, both in it's black-box nature, and in the appreciable cost barriers associated with buying apparatuses. In the same way that we have adopted open source software, many are now encouraging open source hardware, for example:
We can contribute to this, by developing and sharing our homebrew hardware designs, co-developing them, and collaborating in the testing and validation of these tools.
Hardware represents a significant barrier to research, both in it's black-box nature, and in the appreciable cost barriers associated with buying apparatuses. In the same way that we have adopted open source software, many are now encouraging open source hardware, for example:
We can contribute to this, by developing and sharing our homebrew hardware designs, co-developing them, and collaborating in the testing and validation of these tools.