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SpongeBot v1.0.0 Release

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2025
Peter Rühr

Summary

Researchers released SpongeBot v1.0.0, an open-source automated test stand used to measure microplastic release from kitchen sponges, with construction manuals, CAD files, and wiring diagrams made freely available to support reproducible research on household microplastic emissions.

This is the construction manual of the SpongeBot v1.0.0 test stand as published in Hamann, L., Galafton, C., Rühr, P. T., Blanke, A., & Thonemann, N. (2026): From sink to Sea: Microplastic release from kitchen sponges and potential environmental effects. Environmental Advances 23: 100693. DOI: 10.1016/j.envadv.2026.100693. For a construction and wiring manual, please follow the instrucitons in the PDF file (SpongeBot_v1_0_0.pdf). This is a static release. Up-to-date CAD files, wiring diagram, and instructions video are avilable at Thingiverse. Up-to-date code to run the machines is available at GitHub.

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