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Why is electronics manufacturing hard? Can it ever be made easy and more accessible? What will it take to relocate industrial production to Europe?

We share with you what we learned when we spent more than 1 year setting up our own production line in our office in Hamburg. Turns out a lot of the difficulties are rarely talked about or hidden behind "manufacturing is high CAPEX".

Come and learn with us the nitty gritty details of batch reflow ovens, stencil printing at scale, and how OpenPnP is a key enabler in our process. While we are far from done with this work, we hope to see others replicate it and collectively reclaim the ownership of the means of electronics production.

Augustin Bielefeld, principal engineer at Eilbek Research, has been growing mycelium and other micro-organisms since 2023, and will present his journey building a reproducible and affordable bioreactor, which is destined to be open-sourced.

This talk is aimed at people with an interest in mycology/microbiology but the principles demonstrated are accessible to everyone.