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Open Hardware Summit 2015 Hackable badge! Talks AnnMarie Thomas (Univ. St. Thomas) “Making Makers” Jason Kessler and Jon Ruston talked about ULTRASCOPE Mach 30 president J. Simmons showed new cad/modeling linked tools that they are using to create open thrusters, rockets, etc. Yavin cold gas thruster as test bed Joshua Pearce showed how open hardware in science can save us a bundle think of all the outdated lab equipment sitting around unsupported. Checkout Joshua’s book “Open-Source Lab” and new “Building open source hardware” by Alicia Gibb Bruce Boyes on the Wright Brothers and Patents Open prosthetic development Open fluid chemistry for biology studies with an Arduino shield Open Hardware Certification Fun Paper Friday This fun paper looks at how using ice shells can reduce drag and some of the non-intuitive physics behind it. Gizmodo article Pykrete Vakarelski, I. U., Chan, D. Y. C., & Thoroddsen, S. T. (2015). Drag Moderation by the Melting of an Ice Surface in Contact with Water. Physical Review L