DocuBricks is a documentation tool for open plant technology projects that aims to address issues with replicating existing open hardware projects. It will create an open source, universal standard for open hardware documentation with features like a modular archive format, bill of materials, assembly instructions, and more. The tool will include desktop and mobile apps to allow consistent documentation in the field or lab. It aims to make documentation inherently modular, verifiable, and useful for benefiting all open hardware projects.

1. DocuBricks! Documentation Tool
for Open Plant Tech
• Many open hardware projects exist already
...but are hard to recreate
...cannot easily be cited
...calibration/validation/testing
...difficult to reuse/adapt
• Significant effort in replicating!
• Every replication is a fork
Create an open and universal Open Source Hardware
(OSH) Documentation Software – a modular standard

2. • OpenPlant project archive format (XML)
• Bill of Materials (BOM)
• Assembly instructions
• Repair and testing information
• Modular structure
• Desktop app to ensure consistency
• Linux/Windows/OSX
• Phone app for field usage
• Stand-alone Web browser interface
• Citable database
• Harvest projects from e.g. GitHub
• Cross-referencing and module reuse (DOI)
• Ratings and simple feedback
• Alternative component suggestions
DocuBricks – Implementation/Deliverables

3. Outcomes/Benefits
• A goto methodology for
documenting open hardware
• Inherently modular
• Verifiable
• Useful beyond OpenPlant
• Self-contained format
• Open API
• Benefiting to all open hardware project
• Already five IRNAS projects
• Several open plant projects
• Journal commitment
New
Open
Hardware
Journal

4. Who we are
• Tobias Wenzel
Physics and
Biochemistry
Cambridge
• Dr. Johan Henriksson
European Molecular
Biology Laboratory
• Dr. Carlos Lugo
John Innes Centre &
Sainsbury
Laboratory
• Luka Mustafa
Shuttleworth Fellow,
IRNAS institute
Co-funder!