Alacrity Education is a STEAM nonprofit in Bucharest. We run Romania's first open-access electronics and robotics lab, and we design open hardware that students build themselves, from schematic to soldered board, to real product.
Everything we teach is public. We are huge supporters of Open Source.
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We think the difference between learning about engineering and doing engineering is whether you are allowed to open the box. So we design devices that are meant to be opened: real instruments with the schematics, firmware and curriculum published alongside them.
Technology is only as good as the people who use it. We don't want to see incompetent people using hardware they don't know anything about and so our whole mission is centered around education. The next generation of engineers and scientists needs hardware, a space to build and invent but, probably even more important, they need a place to learn and get mentorship, a place where they can make mistakes. This is what Alacrity really is.
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| AirBoxV2 | Solar powered open source air quality station built around the Sensirion SEN66, with firmware, ingest backend and Grafana dashboards. Our flagship |
| DemoBoards | Small teaching boards used in our electronics courses |
| bomtool | KiCad BOM merger, written because merging BOMs by hand was costing us hours |
| component-importer-for-kicad | Universal component and library importer for KiCad |
| MeetMaster | QR based attendance tracking for meetings |
Most of our teaching material lives on the wiki rather than here, including the full AirBox course.
- AirBox Bootcamp: 125 students taught online, 12 of them brought to Bucharest for a 10 day residential build program. Every lesson is online, open source and free to reuse.
- School tours: bringing AirBox builds to 6 schools across 3 counties.
- Robotics teams: the FTC robotics team we mentor (Clockworks) reached international notoriety under with our support.
- Students and teachers: our courses are free and open at wiki.alacrity.ro. Schools that want to run an AirBox build, write to us.
- Engineers: issues and pull requests are welcome on any of our source repositories. Start with an issue if you are planning something substantial.
- Sponsors and donors: we take component donations, equipment, and funding for the next batch of student builds. You can also donate here.
📍 Bucharest, Romania ✉️ contact@alacrity.ro
