Buy Off-the-Shelf or Do-It-Yourself and share?
Photosynthesis research has been substantially stimulated by commercial instruments. More rarely, it has also relied on the capacity of individual scientists to develop their own instruments and methods that were not commercially available, as well as on their willingness to share these methodologies with the community.
Renaissance of Do-It-Yourself
With the increasing availability and capacity of platforms like Arduino and Python, and the growing power and decreasing unit price of sensors and microcontrollers, we expect a renaissance of projects that will be shared as open hardware and software.
Community-Driven Science
The Workbench section of this website is dedicated to open-source tools for ac-biology.