Robert Phillips is a product designer and tutor at Brunel University. He is a PhD candidate researching open design and citizen science. http://www.rdphillips.co.uk/132772/1836116/projects/bee-lab-citizen-science-project

1. Dexter, 2013
Just because it’s open, does it mean it is good?
Rob Phillips
Daniel Charny
Hilary Geoghegan
Jess Price
Tom Hulme
Steven Bamford
@rob_dphillips
@danino
@DrHG
@SussexWildlife
@thulme
@thebamf

2. Open design is “A movement of fabrication that
is democratising manufacture to
the user, enabling them to create
personal products in the future”.
Malone, Lipson, 2007.

3. Textile patterns

4. Additive Subtractive
Design Tools
Digital Manufacture
Accessible hardware

5. openstructures.net

6. Citizen Science is “The participation of non-scientists
in the data collection for scientific
investigation”.
Lee, Quinn and Duke, 2006.

7. www.birds.cornell.edu
www.airqualityegg.com
www.publiclab.org
www.teklalabs.org

8. "1 in 3 bites of food is thanks to pollinators,
contributing £14.2bn to EU economy"
Langworthy G, Henein M. 2009. "The vanishing of the bees"
1st ed. USA: Hive Mentality Films.

9. observation / research

10. observed mutual data

12. If your beehives could talk,
what would you like it to tell you?

13. Design / Make / Research
beelab.org @beelab_open

14. BEE LAB
The project

15. What’s in the kit
PCB
4050B Hex
Non-Invertor
INA 125 IC
RTC
Clock Mount
LCD Mount SD Mount
16 DIL Socket
Screw TerminalTemperature +
Humidity Sensor
SD Card Reader Clock
Screw Terminal
Capacitors ARTMEGA
Socket
Regulator
Push Button
Regulator
LCD Screen
Load Cell
Force Sensor
220 Ohms Resistors
1K Resistors
1M Resistors
4K7 Ohms Resistor
3.3 Ohms Resistor
Switch

16. Weight of beehive, weight
of feeder, temperature /
humidity and weather

17. Victoria & Albert Museum
Digital Design weekend 2013

18. “A world full of crapjects
and blobjects”
Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things, 2005

19. This work was supported by RCUK through the
Horizon Digital Economy Research grant
(EP/G065802/1)
Just because it’s open, does it mean it is good?
Rob Phillips
Daniel Charny
Hilary Geoghegan
Jess Price
Tom Hulme
Steven Bamford
@rob_dphillips
@danino
@DrHG
@SussexWildlife
@thulme
@thebamf