Better Hardware, Better Research
October 13, 2025
zool, wearing green, at Map Limehouse
Lake Windermere, site of continuous sampling since the 1940s
A paper based on an Engineering Workshop prototype
Neil Mullinger delivering part of the “Field Electronics and Sensors” course
Alba Gomez Segura installing an AMI moth monitor
A prototype site for the Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure
Labcrafter Bluetooth soil moisture sensor
Hydromoth underwater acoustic sensor from Audiomoth
Mothbox light-based insect monitor
Better Hardware, Better Research
A representative scene from Edinburgh Hacklab
OSHWA certification
“Open Instrumentation, like open data, is key to reproducible science”
OpenFlexure instrumentation
A futuristic mushroom sensor designed with kids by BBC R&D
Bats! A DIY bat sensor with acoupi
A drone firing sharp projectiles with MicroMoth acoustic sensors into the tree canopy
Decomputing
The classic data science plane damage image, but it’s a bird
Concept design for a dog backpack wireless router
The P0ND at the UKCEH Edinburgh offices
RC2014 Mini Picasso