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Project Gado is an initiative to build an open source robotic scanner that small archives can use to digitize their photographic collections for less than $500. Project Gado is currently partnered with the archives at the Afro American Newspapers in Baltimore. Project Gado is sponsored by the Abell Foundation, the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA).

The backbone of the project is the Gado 2, an Arduino-based robot which is able to lift flat materials using suction, place them on a scanner and scan them into a database or computer file system, all autonomously.


Phase 2 of the project, which began in June 2011, is creating a more user-friendly version of the machine, the Gado 2. The Gado 2 is sold as a kit, which other archives can assemble and use. It remains open source, and continues to cost $500 or less to build.
The project is managed by Tom Smith through the JHU Center for Social Concern, in partnership with the Baltimore Afro American newspaper, the JHU Center for Africana Studies, and the JHU Sheridan Libraries. Phase 2 of Project Gado is made possible through a generous grant from the Abell Foundation.
Contact: info@projectgado.org for more information.  
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