**[Download our Posters from the 235th AAS Meeting in Honolulu, Hawai'i][1]**
The open design movement has driven a revolution of affordable electronic and electromechanical devices that are easily developed by product developers and consumers alike. An “Open Source Hardware Definition”, has enabled this revolution by ensuring that design, firmware & software files are readily published online via open-source licenses. This is the site of the HARDWARE.astronomy initiative that supports open-source astronomical instrumentation. The project goals are too:
1. develop low-cost astronomical instruments based on open-hardware devices and principles, including the ROBH.aT Network and H.aHK Box.; 2. invest undergraduates in the development of astronomical instruments;
3. make all hardware, software and firmware immediately available to the broader community per the open-source principle; and
4. develop principles of open hardware for the astronomical and allow other researchers to publish their projects through the initiative.
[1]: https://osf.io/yktem/wiki/1.%20Presentations/#235th_American_Astronomical_Society_Meeting_in_Honolulu_Hawaii_21
