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Revision as of 01:39, 28 May 2014
Post-HLab14 Dissemination Session at Tech4Dev International Conference, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-6 June 2014
The UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development hosted by the Cooperation and Development Center (CoDEV) will hold the third International Conference on Technologies for Development and asks "What is Essential?" How to alleviate poverty in this world? Innovative technologies? What is appropriate technology?
Contents
- 1 Post-HLab14 Dissemination Session at Tech4Dev International Conference, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-6 June 2014
- 2 Panel Discussion (Part of the official Conference; 4 June)
- 3 Water Hackathon (Parallel Event; 6, 7 June)
Panel Discussion (Part of the official Conference; 4 June)
TH2-SE02-11 The Openness Paradigm: How Synergies Between Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Source Hardware, Open Drug Discovery Approaches Support Development?
- Panel Chairs:
- Sachiko Hirosue, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Denisa Kera, National University of Singapore
Water Hackathon (Parallel Event; 6, 7 June)
Water Hackathon 6-7 June 2014Open Source Technologies for Rivers, Oceans and Lakes - Explore the Possibilities of Open Hardware for Open Science Projects
co-produced by BIO-DESIGN for the REAL WORLD and hackteria.org
- With
- Gabriella Levine Tisch School of the Arts New York University, and Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
Enrollment
External registration is officially closed - For the hackathon, please register online prior to the event, so we know who will be joining us.
- Everyone who has registered on the site above for the hackathon will have a Friday day pass to the Conference at the Convention Center.
- People are required to pick up their badge on Friday morning (open starting 8:30am) at the Conference Registration at the Swiss Tech Convention Center on EPFL campus.
- Everyone who has registered on the site above for the hackathon will have a Friday day pass to the Conference at the Convention Center.
If you are already attending the Conference, and you would like to sign up, please look for us in the main hall, where we will have a sign-up sheet at the exhibition space during the conference.
Venues
1) Exhibition table at entrance hall of the Swiss Tech Convention Center conference venue
- 4-6 June, During the whole conference, place to show some prototypes, discuss, welcome people, last minute on-site enrollment etc.
/ setup the day of - At the ground floor of the conference center there will be "poster sessions"
- 4-6 June, During the whole conference, place to show some prototypes, discuss, welcome people, last minute on-site enrollment etc.
2) Hackathon Lab Space within the Swiss Tech Convention Center conference venue ROOM 3A
- 6 June 10 am to 5pm / setup the day of
- 6 June 10 am to 5pm / setup the day of
3) hackuarium @ UniverCité 5 Ch. du Closel, 1020 Renens
- 6 June after 5pm, and full day Saturday 7 June. (24/7 access)
- New biohacker space, launched by Luc Henry, Yann Heurtaux
- 6 June after 5pm, and full day Saturday 7 June. (24/7 access)
how to get there
EPFL campus can be easily accessed by public transport. The new Swiss Tech Convention Centre is on EPFL campus.
UniverCité is at 5 Ch. du Closel, 1020 Renens.
From the CFF station Renens, take Bus 17 at the north of the tracks, stop: Renens VD, village.
You can find a google map with the venues pinned here.
What happens When?
Friday 6 June
During the day, we are part of the tech4dev Conference. The full conference program can be found here.
- 08:30 onwards, Walk-in Registration
- 10:30 - 12:30 Hackathon - meet and greet and show and tell
- 12:30 - 13:30 dumpster diving @ EPFL for materials for floats/boats
- 13:30 - 15:00 Hackathon -
- 15:30 - 17:00 Closing Session - (our report of the day's activities will be part of the Return of Day 3 conversations)
We will make a trip to the river or the lake, after the conference to float boats and collect water.
After the Conference, we will move the hackathon to univercité in Renens, for late night hacking.
Saturday 7 June
We will spend the day at univercité for the hackathon.
- early in Lausanne, flea market at Pl. de la Riponne.
- 11:00 - Hackathon @ univercité
Core Team
making sure we have a nice program and sufficient materials available for the waterhackathon:
- Gabriella Levine (June 3rd to June 7th (or longer))
- Nur Akbar Arofatullah (June 3rd to 15th)
- Urs Gaudenz (June 4th to 8th)
In collaboration with:
UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development hackteria Lifepatch biodesign for the real world hackuarium univercité
With support from:
Migros Kultur Prozent seeed studio Swiss National Science Foundation
Affiliations:
Open Source Hardware Association Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Open Hardware
Participants
- Marc Dusseiller
- Denisa Kera
- PECHBLENDA bIOpUNKhACKs
- ...
- about 30 hackaton participants
Accommodations
Guest: For those of you coming from out of town, and requested housing in the sign-up form, we will try to pair you up with a local host.
Host: For those of you who signed up for hosting, we will contact you shortly
Suggested Topics
- building and testing boats and floats
- water snail robot
- water sampling methods and containers
- water filtration
- build and test water sensors
- DIY nanodrop
- experimenting with daphnia-sensor
- test for antibiotic resistant microorganisms in water samples by PCR Samra et al. Biomed Environ Sci 2009
Planned Side Events
- Discussion on UNESCO Bioethics declaration
"unique capacity of human beings to reflect upon their own existence, to perceive injustice, to avoid danger and to assume responsibility, to seek cooperation"
- Dumpster diving @ EPFL
- Flea market trip @ Pl. de la Riponne in Lausanne (Saturday morning)
Materials
Recommended to Bring
- laptops (not everyone has to bring one)
- change of shoes/ clothes you don't mind getting wet in the river/lake
- depending on the weather, bring your swimming clothes!
- something special that floats
- sensors
Anything you will bring and you want to make sure to take back with you, it is your responsibility to LABEL YOUR MATERIALS and TOOLS.
See below for what kind of things we will be working with - anything you feel you want to add to the list, please bring along.
Provided by Organizers
Provided by SGMK
Electronics lab equipement
- soldering irons - ok (min 6)
- solder - ok - order more
- helping hands - ok
- tweezers - ok (min 6)
- side cutters - ok - order more
- cutters - ok
- lamps - ok (min 6)
- aligator clips - ok
- electric plugs - ok (min 4)
- screwdrivers - ok (min 2 sets)
- scisors - ok (order more)
- multi meeter - ok (many)
- drilling machine - ok
- drills and bits - ok
- saw - ok
Electronic Parts
- wires - ok
- breadboards - ok (min 6)
- arduinos - ok (min 6)
- batteries 9V / 1.5V - ok
- batterie holders 2x, 4x - ok
- switches - ok (many)
- set with transistors, various chips - ok
- hot glue - ok - order more
- hot glue sticks - ok
- board material - ok - get some more
- solar cells small - ok
- set with resistors - ok
- DC motors - ok (many)
- wencams - ok (min 4)
- motor driver - order
Provided by EPFL (Biodesign)
- Wetlab materials
- pipetes
- sample tubes
- microscopy slides, coverslips
- tubing, connectors
- fabric for sails
- freeze dried PCR mix
- agarose and buffer for gel electrophoresis
- ...
Provided by GaudiLabs
- Silkprinting materials - ok
- OpenPCR - ok
- WebCam Mircoscope -ok
- DIY Nanodrop -ok
- DIY GelBox -ok
- ..
Provided by LifePatch
- micam v.2 kits
- From seeed studio:
- 3 lipo rider
- some xadow board
- DC-DC converter
- GSR
- temp-humidity sensor
- webcams
Provided by Gabriella
- sneel
- toy boat components
- propellers
Provided by UniverCité
- 6 tables with corresponding 6 chairs each
- electrical outlets, and extension cables
- running water/faucet
optionally
- good sound system
- projector
- fridge
NEW to be requested
- wet lab tables (apart from dry lab tables)
- wifi
- white board or some other forms of brain storming surface
Current Shopping List as of 18 May 2014, revisiting on 21 May 2014
- DC motors (small)
- DC pumps
- servos
- r/c controllers
- PVC pipes (likely in dumpster, will check)
from Adafruit
- universal motor board
- 1 way radio
- balloons
Items to be sold at the conference
- micam3.0 kit by Akbar
- T-Shirts by Marc