#1 By: Aaron Makaruk, September 11th, 2013 16:57
Hello Everyone,
Welcome to the Open Source Beehives community. Please take a minute to introduce yourselves 
Thank You
#2 By: Aaron Makaruk, September 11th, 2013 17:47
My name is Aaron Makaruk, and I am the co-founder of Open Tech Forever and a founding member of the Open Source Beehives project. I am currently on the design team for the open source African Top Bar, and I'm actively developing this project with Fablab Barcelona, Valldura, and the Open Tech Forever teams.
#3 By: Tristan Copley Smith, September 11th, 2013 19:02
My name is Tristan Copley Smith - I'm Communications Director at Open Tech Forever and a founding member of the Open Source Beehives project. My role is currently networking with compatible initiatives to extend the reach of the OSB project and build partnerships. I've also been assisting Aaron in the fabrication process, and documenting / promoting the project through video and social networks.
My primary skill set is as a filmmaker - please see my website at www.openpixel.cc.
#4 By: John Rees, September 12th, 2013 09:31
Hello, my name is John Rees.
For the first half of this year (2013), together with Jonathan Minchin and Ferran Masip, I've been honing my manufacturing skills on a course called the Fab Academy at Fab Lab Barcelona. My work is documented online here. I like writing code, making things, and bees; so getting involved with this project seemed like a no-brainer.
#5 By: LennyWayne Patterson, September 12th, 2013 11:09
My name is LennyWayne Patterson I'm excited to be working on this project! I'm a Bee lover and feel we need this little marvel of nature to sustain mankind's food crop. And building a hive that gives them the opportunity to build the hive their way but still gives us a way to check and monitor them will help us find out what's causing this Colony Collapse Disorder and take steps to change it! Any way you look at it, it a good thing for both sides.
I've been helping Open Tech Forever in the CAD drawings and I hope they have found them sufficient.
LW
#6 By: Yoonseo Kang, September 12th, 2013 13:54
I'm Yoonseo Kang, a co-founder and engineer at Open Tech Forever. I mainly develop mechatronic projects and create technical documentation.
Bees are essential for global pollination and I'm excited about more accessible, sustainable beehives and environments especially in response to colony collapse disorder.
#7 By: Tomas Diez, September 14th, 2013 15:54
HI, My name is Tomas Diez. Founder of Smart Citizen and member of the founding team of the Open Source Beehives. I run the Fab Lab Barcelona with colleagues and now starting a very exciting collaboration with OTF for the development of better solutions for our superimportant bees worldwide.
#8 By: Tom van de Beek, September 15th, 2013 09:43
Zup! My name is Tom van de Beek and I'm the founder of The Tipping Point Foundation, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. One of our projects is called I Love Beeing, a fast growing movement of young people committed to saving the bees. We organize awareness campaigns, but we're also bringing urban beekeeping to the next level by having high standards as far as natural beekeeping goes. In practice this means we try to take care of our bees the best we can, without taking away their honey and without using anything chemical in or around the hive. Also, read this article. I'm pretty excited to see how the combination of high tech and old school beekeeping could potentially save the bees, and therefore ourselves.
#9 By: Lars Schulz, October 6th, 2013 17:57
Hi there, my name is Lars from Berlin, Germany. I stumbled across this project while being a beekeeper and also being professionally involved in design and software development. I am currently about to embark onto a new journey studywise as a student of ecology and environmental planning at the TU-Berlin. I might not have a lot of experience in collaborative efforts like these yet, but my background in design and connections into the Berlin beekeeper as well as design community and might be of some use.
#10 By: Rob, October 8th, 2013 00:19
Good Day All,
I met Aaron at the Maker faire here in Colorado. We got to discussing the BeeHive Project and some of it's design challanges. He invited me here to share a suggestion I had for improving the Hive roof design.
My back ground is a little bit of many things, including WoodWorking, Software systems debugging, and trying to learn a bit of electronics.
BoorT
#11 By: Rostyslav Gull, October 16th, 2013 15:41
Hi there, my name is Rostyslav Gull, beekeeper from Ukraine. Now I have apiary and start to build more 30 warrehives. This project is interesting for me.
#12 By: Jonathan Minchin, October 18th, 2013 15:20
I'm Jonathan Minchin working at the Fab Lab barcelona and Green Fab Lab in Valldaura and am co-founder of Openlab.org.. I'm an architect and maker and have been developing the OS Warré hive design.
Bees are essential to holding ecosystems together and we need them. To sense and track the health of a colony in non intrusive ways is essential to understanding our relationship with them and the roles they play in the environment.
#13 By: Yoav S, November 11th, 2013 17:45
Hello Fellow Beehackers! My name is Yoav Sasportas, im from montreal, canada...i do experimental beekeeping with the terra perma foundation, been keeping bees for 3 years...and have been looking into alternative ways to keep bees from the start.
i would like to help design a hive for the future and help the project in any way i can, i see so much value in this project.
#14 By: Mark Milotay, November 13th, 2013 15:46
Hi - My name is Mark Milotay, and I have been beekeeping for 3+ years. I have a mixture of top bar and Langstroth hives in my beeyard (I am foundationless in the Langstroths). I am planning to introduce a variation on Phil Chandler's Pagoda hive design. If it my modified model works, I will move the rest of my hives to it.
I am located in Victoria, BC, so I have the benefit of a mild climate, although moisture is one of the big issues we have to contend with in our hives here.
#15 By: Ken Meyer, November 13th, 2013 15:48
Hello World!
I'm Ken from Minnesota, USA and while I work with lasers in manufacturing in my day job, I've been keeping bees for 4-5 years and for the past two years, I have been working on building datalogging capabilities into my own bee hives!
Last spring, I installed a digital scale and some temperature probes on one of my bee hives, but I was relying on a wireless connection to collect the data without a reliable hardware backup and after about a week of data, the connection would drop out and I would lose data. My young children prevent quick prototyping, so I've been working on a second version for spring 2014.
I backed the Apitronics Kickstarter ( http://apitronics.com/ )and Louis will be building me a more robust data transmission system and handling a lot of the programming that I don't have time to reliably reproduce.
At the same time, I've moved from my original attempt to repurpose postal scales to designing a dedicated unit around a single load cell. I've been documenting some of my work at http://hackerbee.com although it's hard to really write a useful guide before I'm finished making mistakes!
Immediately, I could use help writing firmware for a PIC microcontroller -- I've just ordered a first prototype hive scale control board that will allow hands-on programming and debugging. I'll be able to slog through the programming myself, it'll just take a couple months to finish. I'd be quite willing to redesign around an Atmel microprocessor if I can hand off programming to someone much more skilled than I.
Anyway, that's me -- I'll direct some other collaborators who are tinkering with other bee hive sensors here and we'll see where we end up!
Ken
#16 By: Zapico, November 16th, 2013 16:02
Hi, Jorge Zapico in Sweden, researcher and developer working on ICT and sustainability at The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Linneaus University. I also co-started the Green Hackathon events and I'm involved in the OKFN sustainability working group. I live in the countryside where I spend my time gardening and growing food and we have two beehives for honey production and help with pollination.
Interested in collaborating in this project, specially in the part with warre hives as we're planning in expanding and building new hives that are more natural than regular one.
#17 By: Wagner Pierre, November 17th, 2013 16:04
Hello !
I'm Pierre. I started beekeeping this year with self-built Warré hives. I have five colonies at the time. I'm located in Moselle, the northeast corner of France. The hive design I use has a windows on the back. I recommend this google group for the french speakers interested in Warre beekeeping in Alsace and Moselle:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=fr&fromgroups#!forum/ruche-warre-en-alsace
#18 By: Mickaël Gandecki, November 18th, 2013 10:07
Hi, I'm Mickael from France (Mosel).
I'm really enthusiastic about this project, this is definitely what I need to grow into apiculture (5 hives until now). I used to work on open-source greenhouse problematics (automatisation, domotics, captors etc) and I publish some experiments on a blog : mgandecki.bdspartan.com/blog
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#19 By: Joe Meyer, December 2nd, 2013 12:28
My name is Joe Meyer, I live in Minnesota, USA. (I do not know Ken from MN even though we share the same last name. I do hope I get to meet him)
I've been keeping bees for over 10 years. I came across beekeeping in a book when I was about 15. I read everything I could get my hands on and convinced my parents to let me keep 2 hives on our hobby farm.
This last year I worked as summer help at the Univ. of Minnesota Bee Lab. I'll be starting a small bee breeding operation in the spring of 2014 with friend of mine producing queen bees and nucleus colonies that are adapted to our northern climate.
I have a B.S. degree in electrical engineering which is starting to collect dust. I currently work in sterilization at 3M working with spores and various methods of killing them. My current winter projects include, a 3ft x 3ft cnc router, android app for managing hive evaluations and queen rearing records, and assembly of equipment for the season ahead.
#20 By: Jim Race, December 12th, 2013 00:54
Jim Race here, from the Sierra Foothills in California. We are n00bs to beekeeping, but we have one Kenyan Top Bar hive going strong, even through the recent cold snap which saw temperatures near zero F. The weather however, has warmed up and they're literally digging through the snow to find pollen. Good stuff!
I'm a geek, and I want sensors.
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