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 - sensors tailored to the specificities of treatment wetlands.
 This set of specifications has led us to consider open hardware solutions to fulfill them.
 
-> I do not know of a field of science where knowledge has increased cumulatively that has not been basically open. (Nelson, 2004)
+> "I do not know of a field of science where knowledge has increased cumulatively that has not been basically open." *C. Nelson*
 
 Open hardware can be considered as a subset of the open-design movement. While collective invention seemed to have fuelled most of the early industrial period, it has desepeared in front of the patent system to only be resurected in the late 70's by the emerging software industry.