André M ChagasAug 29, 2023

Hi there!
Here is a short #introduction about me and things I have been doing lately!

Living in the UK, after a decade in Germany, originally being from South America.

for a while I have been an #openscience advocate and practitioner, focusing on #openhardware and tools for research.

I currently work at the University of Sussex in the UK, as a scientific officer and a lecturer in Open Science.

Some places that might be worth a visit (but some might be outdated)

https://open-neuroscience.com (a community led repository for open source tools in Neuroscience - which I started back in 20143

https://openhardware.space - online training resource for best practices on developing open hardware

https://amchagas.github.io (outdated personal page)

https://prometheus-science.com (my side hustle, a company offering services around open source hardware and open science

Open Neuroscience

Open Neuroscience is a volunteer organized project to aggregate and curate open source projects related to Neurosciences

Open Neuroscience
Show threadMoritz Negwer
@amchagas so cool to see you on Mastodon! I very much enjoyed your talk at the FENS 2018 open hardware symposium and it inspired me to collect open-hardware ideas ever since :)
Aug 30, 2023 at 5:44amWeb
Show threadAndré M ChagasAug 30, 2023
@moritz_negwer
Oh cool!
That was a fun symposium :) when you say collecting ideas, do you mean you are seeing what is available out there, or thinking about developing your own tools?
Show threadMoritz NegwerAug 30, 2023

@amchagas I was a fresh graduate student back then, so I have mostly been collecting open-hardware ideas. I actually built a mostly working prototype of an arduino-based optogenetics stimulator at some point, but that was abandoned when our multi-electrode array supplier made a brighter version that integrated with their own software.

Since then I have gradually moved into the microscopy space, so by now most of my open hardware wild ideas revolve around building light-sheet microscopes :)

Show threadAndré M ChagasSep 1, 2023
@moritz_negwer
Ah cool! I imagine you have already seen the UC2 project? Really cool system to build scopes (including light sheets) and really cool people behind it too
Show threadMoritz NegwerSep 1, 2023
@amchagas Yes, it's been on my radar for some time and I agree it looks super cool!
I'd be eager to find out how well their 3d-printed component cages play with the organic solvents I'd be using to clear the samples. Those tend to dissolve most common 3D print plastics over time, so we'd need to print those out of Nylon or so...