Better Hardware, Better Research

Jo Walsh

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

May 28, 2025

Overview

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

Better Hardware, Better Research

A representative scene from Edinburgh Hacklab

“Open Instrumentation, like open data, is key to reproducible science”

A futuristic mushroom sensor designed with kids by BBC R&D

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