[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":309},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-\u002Fnews\u002Fswiss-open-science-gathering":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":6,"body":10,"coverAlt":288,"coverCaption":289,"coverCredit":290,"coverImage":291,"date":292,"description":293,"draft":294,"extension":295,"hero":296,"license":297,"meta":298,"metaDescription":299,"navigation":197,"path":300,"reading":301,"seo":302,"stem":303,"summary":304,"tags":305,"updated":299,"__hash__":308},"news\u002Fnews\u002Fswiss-open-science-gathering.md","A Swiss open science gathering at Etherlaken",[7],{"name":8,"role":9},"Martin Etzrodt","Open Science Institute",{"type":11,"value":12,"toc":281},"minimark",[13,25,38,41,136,141,162,172,181,190,204,215,219,228,234,239,242,245,257,261,264],[14,15,16,17,24],"p",{},"On 24 June 2026 we hosted the first gathering of the Swiss biohacking and open\nhardware community at the ",[18,19,23],"a",{"href":20,"rel":21},"https:\u002F\u002Fetherlaken.com\u002Fen",[22],"nofollow","Etherlaken"," site in Matten\nbei Interlaken. Nine invited guests joined the two hosts for a tour of the site,\nan afternoon of hands-on open science experiments, and a shared barbecue at the\nfire place. It was a light hearted day. Each guest brought a small open science\nexperiment of their own, and some food to share.",[26,27,28,29],"figure",{},"\n  ",[30,31],"img",{"src":32,"alt":33,"width":34,"height":35,"loading":36,"decoding":37},"\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fswiss-open-science-gathering\u002Famphitheatre.jpg","Participants sitting in a loose row on the tiered benches of the curved amphitheatre, mid-conversation.",1400,1050,"lazy","async",[14,39,40],{},"The meetup was hosted by Martin Etzrodt and Philip Dettinger of the Open Science\nInstitute. Our guests each brought a different aspect of Open Science to the\ntable:",[42,43,44,58,70,81,102,113,124],"ul",{},[45,46,47,51,52,57],"li",{},[48,49,50],"strong",{},"Marc Dusseiller (Hackteria)."," Transdisciplinary artist-researcher who\nco-founded ",[18,53,56],{"href":54,"rel":55},"https:\u002F\u002Fhackteria.org\u002Fwiki\u002FDusjagr",[22],"Hackteria",", the Swiss\nMechatronic Art Society, and the Bitwäscherei hackerspace. He co-organises GOSH\nand the BioFabbing Convergence.",[45,59,60,69],{},[48,61,62,63,68],{},"Urs Gaudenz and Miranda Moss (",[18,64,67],{"href":65,"rel":66},"https:\u002F\u002Fgaudi.ch\u002FGaudiLabs",[22],"GaudiLabs",").","\nGaudenz is a Swiss microengineer behind open instruments such as the Wild Open\nPCR. Moss is a Cape Town artist, designer, and outsider engineer. Together they\nrun accessible electronics and biohacking workshops.",[45,71,72,80],{},[48,73,74,75,68],{},"Antonio Lamb (",[18,76,79],{"href":77,"rel":78},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.lambconsulting.bio\u002Flambda-biolab\u002F",[22],"Lambda Biolab","\nMolecular biologist running a shared BSL-1 community lab in Basel. It offers\nlow-cost reagents and remote compute to researchers without an academic or\ncorporate affiliation.",[45,82,83,86,87,92,93,97,98,101],{},[48,84,85],{},"Heidy Baggenstos and Andreas Rudolf."," A Zurich\n",[18,88,91],{"href":89,"rel":90},"https:\u002F\u002Fbaggenstos-rudolf.ch",[22],"art bio-hacker duo",". Their fieldwork produced a\npeer-reviewed ",[94,95,96],"em",{},"Mycoscience"," paper documenting previously unrecorded\nbioluminescence in ",[94,99,100],{},"Mycena crocata",".",[45,103,104,112],{},[48,105,106,107,68],{},"Diego Garrido (",[18,108,111],{"href":109,"rel":110},"https:\u002F\u002Fkultiva.bio",[22],"Kultiva Bio"," Biologist, formerly at\nthe Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, now leading work across gene\ntherapy, tissue culture, and carbon-capture biotechnology.",[45,114,115,123],{},[48,116,117,118,68],{},"Michael Rebhan (",[18,119,122],{"href":120,"rel":121},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.linkedin.com\u002Fcompany\u002Felevatehealthofficial\u002F",[22],"elevateHealth","\nBasel scientist and co-creator of GeneCards. He is building an open, predictive,\npreventive, and participatory health ecosystem with models shared openly.",[45,125,126,129,130,135],{},[48,127,128],{},"Sascha Radusch."," Open science enthusiast with\n",[18,131,134],{"href":132,"rel":133},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gaudi.ch\u002F",[22],"Gaudi Labs",", wingsuit pilot and aerial cameraman from\nthe Interlaken region.",[137,138,140],"h2",{"id":139},"an-afternoon-of-hands-on-open-science","An afternoon of hands-on open science",[14,142,143,144,149,150,155,156,161],{},"Following an extensive tour through the relics of Erich von Däniken's old\nMystery Park exhibits, we ran a laid-back workshop across the outdoor benches\nnext to the barbecue area. The ",[18,145,148],{"href":146,"rel":147},"https:\u002F\u002Fgaudi.ch\u002FOpenDrop",[22],"OpenDrop"," digital\nmicrofluidics platform from GaudiLabs drove droplets across an electrode grid\nfrom a laptop. The ",[18,151,154],{"href":152,"rel":153},"https:\u002F\u002Fopenbrushograph.github.io\u002F",[22],"open brushograph"," pen\nplotter wrote the words \"Open Science\" as a live demonstration. The\n",[18,157,160],{"href":158,"rel":159},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gaudi.ch\u002FOpenTheremin\u002Findex.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180&Itemid=115",[22],"OpenTheremin","\nfield measurement and sensor setup was assembled on the grass. A highlight were\nthe humidity detectors, soldered and assembled hand to hand around the tables,\nusing nothing but the power of the sun.",[26,163,28,164,28,168],{},[30,165],{"src":166,"alt":167,"width":34,"height":35,"loading":36,"decoding":37},"\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fswiss-open-science-gathering\u002Fopendrop.jpg","Two participants watch a laptop running the OpenDrop digital-biology interface, with the red OpenDrop cartridge board on the table.",[169,170,171],"figcaption",{},"OpenDrop, the open digital microfluidics platform from GaudiLabs",[26,173,28,174,28,178],{},[30,175],{"src":176,"alt":177,"width":35,"height":34,"loading":36,"decoding":37},"\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fswiss-open-science-gathering\u002Fbrushograph.jpg","An open brushograph pen plotter beside a laptop whose screen reads 'Open Science'.",[169,179,180],{},"open brushograph pen plotter",[14,182,183,184,189],{},"The OpenTheremin is a development of Urs Gaudenz's open hardware take on the\n",[18,185,188],{"href":186,"rel":187},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FTheremin",[22],"theremin",". The instrument is played\nwithout touch: as your hands change the electromagnetic field around the\ntheremin's antennas, the instrument turns that into sound.",[26,191,28,192,28,201],{},[193,194],"video",{"src":195,"poster":196,"controls":197,"muted":197,"playsInline":197,"preload":198,"width":199,"height":200},"\u002Fvideos\u002Fswiss-gathering-field-sensor.mp4","\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fswiss-open-science-gathering\u002Ffield-sensor-poster.jpg",true,"metadata",810,1080,[169,202,203],{},"Open Theremin - music with the electromagnetic fields of one's own body",[14,205,206,207,214],{},"Cory Doctorow's novel\n",[18,208,211],{"href":209,"rel":210},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FWalkaway_(Doctorow_novel)",[22],[94,212,213],{},"Walkaway"," came to\nmind on this afternoon. The lawn was filled with clever people that each had\nfound their way to walk away from a default path of academia, yet each built the\nproof themselves, that open source and open collaboration must not be a\ncompromise. They are a better and more fun way to work. We felt encouraged and\nconfirmed in our assumption that a lively community gathering in Etherlaken can\ndo a lot of good in this place. As Etherlaken was just in the middle of its own\ntransition this felt like a good beginning.",[137,216,218],{"id":217},"the-lab-is-the-people","The lab is the people",[14,220,221,222,227],{},"Urs Gaudenz not only supplied Open Hardware gadgets but also a framing for the\nday. His essay ",[18,223,226],{"href":224,"rel":225},"https:\u002F\u002Fmedium.com\u002F@Sachiko\u002Flab-making-d573afa93231",[22],"Lab Making",",\nwritten with Sachiko Hirosue after HackteriaLab 2014, was shared as reading. It\nreads the laboratory as a social space built by its users, not a fixed facility.",[229,230,231],"blockquote",{},[14,232,233],{},"A lab is a place to labor, experiment, research and share. This could be\nanywhere. Build it. Open it. Hack it. And own it.",[229,235,236],{},[14,237,238],{},"The projects will attract a community. Then let the community build the lab.",[14,240,241],{},"We aim to apply the template from the start. This means the programme and its\ncommunity will shape the space. We will not create a fixed lab and then ask\nwhat it can be used for. We will drive the build-out in a project focussed\nmanner.",[14,243,244],{},"One thing we identified that connected all participants was the shared interest\nin low photon emission from living things. That points to a clear first focus\nfor Etherlaken, a topic the community can gather around and build instruments,\nmaterials, and research questions for together.",[26,246,28,247,28,251],{},[30,248],{"src":249,"alt":250,"width":35,"height":34,"loading":36,"decoding":37},"\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fswiss-open-science-gathering\u002Fbiophotonen-book.jpg","The cover of Marco Bischof's book Biophotonen: Das Licht in unseren Zellen, resting on a wooden table.",[169,252,253,256],{},[94,254,255],{},"Biophotonen: Das Licht in unseren Zellen",", Marco Bischof",[137,258,260],{"id":259},"what-comes-next","What comes next",[14,262,263],{},"Our plan is now to make this gathering a recurring format at Etherlaken, and to\nkeep the invitation open to this community to shape the site and its first\nresearch focus. The Open Science Institute will follow up and strengthen the connections\nmade. This was a prototype, and we will run it again.",[14,265,266,267,272,273,276,277,101],{},"The visit was also written up on the open hardware community's own forum:\n",[18,268,271],{"href":269,"rel":270},"https:\u002F\u002Fforum.openhardware.science\u002Ft\u002Fvisit-to-the-open-science-foundation-switzerland\u002F7836",[22],"Visit to the Open Science Foundation, Switzerland",".\nTo read more about the site itself, see ",[18,274,23],{"href":20,"rel":275},[22],"\nand our ",[18,278,280],{"href":279},"\u002Finstitute\u002F#etherlaken","campus page",{"title":282,"searchDepth":283,"depth":283,"links":284},"",2,[285,286,287],{"id":139,"depth":283,"text":140},{"id":217,"depth":283,"text":218},{"id":259,"depth":283,"text":260},"Open hardware kits, instruments, and laptops spread across a long table with participants gathered around it.","Matten bei Interlaken, 24 June 2026.","Open Science Foundation","\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fswiss-open-science-gathering\u002Fgathering-table.jpg","2026-06-24","On 24 June 2026 we hosted the first gathering of the Swiss biohacking and open\nhardware community at the Etherlaken site in Matten\nbei Interlaken. Nine invited guests joined the two hosts for a tour of the site,\nan afternoon of hands-on open science experiments, and a shared barbecue at the\nfire place. It was a light hearted day. Each guest brought a small open science\nexperiment of their own, and some food to share.",false,"md","dispatch","CC BY 4.0",{},null,"\u002Fnews\u002Fswiss-open-science-gathering","6 min",{"title":5,"description":293},"news\u002Fswiss-open-science-gathering","While the Open Science Campus of the Open Science Foundation is still in its planning phase, we invited the Swiss biohacking and open hardware scene to Etherlaken. They came with their own experiments: droplet microfluidics, a plotter in a backpack, the OpenTheremin (an instrument played by the body's electromagnetic field), and kits soldered with sunlight. What connected us most was the faint light that living things emit.",[306,307,23],"Community","Open Hardware","x1qx9Zhm7-Bdo0BmDLMTRdwdKXl73kUflhWyCJ4i7O0",1788809659747]