Why the open source hardware will change the Science

A year has already gone by the   launch of openQCM and there are many things to tell. When we have tried as private company, the way of the open source by launching one of the first scientific analytical instrument in the world completely open hardware, we would never have imagined this level of success. […]

openQCM community develops and shares the new electronic design using KiCAD

openQCM electronic version 1.2 PCB designed using the open source KiCAD EDA software

openQCM Quartz Crystal Microbalance electronic design is finally released using the free software KiCAD. Thanks to Martin Zalazar, Christian Mista and all the guys working at the Lab of electronic prototyping and 3D printing of the Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos UNER – Argentina Great thanks for being an active part of the openQCM community […]

openQCM news and press review

openQCM quartz crystal microbalance press release

The openQCM is really proud to share the latest reviews about the open source quartz crystal microbalance. This is also the opportunity to give thanks to people supporting the openQCM project.

openQCM the Java application for developers

openQCM Java software project developed using NetBeans IDE

In this post I discuss in detail the development of Java application for the open source quartz crystal microbalance openQCM. This post is intended for developers and contributors of the open source project. The entire project is available on github repository at this link

openQCM the benefit and challenge of an open hardware project

openQCM design by Glenda Torres Guizado and 3D print by Sculpteo

Hi everybody, This is my first post on the openQCM blog, so I introduce myself. I am Marco, Scientific Coordinator at Novaetech S.r.l. and co-founder of the openQCM project – the first open source quartz crystal microbalance – which I developed alongside Raffaele Battaglia, founder of Novaetech and the project’s creator. Above all I am […]

Why an Open-Source Quartz Crystal Microbalance ?

I do open source because it’s fun and it works… Companies who work with the kernel community will waste less time and they’ll just work better. Linus Torvalds Hello, in a few days, we will launch our first scientific Open Hardware product. I, therefore, believe it is appropriate, as first post to introduce and explain […]