OS Warré Hive by Open Source Beehives is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.opensourcebeehives.net/.
The Open Source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world. The project proposes to design hives that can support bee colonies in a sustainable way and to monitor and track the health and behaviour of a colony as it develops. Each hive contains an open source sensory kit, The Smart Citizen Kit (SCK), which can transmit to an open data platform: Smartcitizen.me
These sensor enhanced hive designs are open and freely available online, the data collected from each hive is published together with geolocations allowing for a further comparison and analysis of the hives.
##Project Partnerships
The Open Source Beehive project is a collaboration between Fablab Barcelona, Open Tech Forever, and Valldaura.
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The Open Source Warre Hive 1.0 is designed to be produced using a CNC router. It can be made from two sheets of 20mm thick wood Panel.
Please see the Fabrication Documents for more detailed information on construction : V1.0 Fabrication Doc.rtf
The Warré hive was invented by Abbé Émil Warré, and is also called "ruche populaire" (fr) or "The People's Hive" (en), the Warré hive is a modular and storied design similar to a Langstroth hive. The hive body is made of boxes stacked vertically; however, it uses Top Bars for comb support instead of full frames, as a general rule. The popularity of this hive is growing among sustainable-practice beekeepers. The Warre hive differs from other stacked hive systems in one fundamental aspect: when the bees need more space as the colony expands, the new box is "nadired". i.e. positioned underneath the existing box(es). This serves the purpose of warmth retention within the brood nest of the hive, considered vital to colony health. The 1948 book "Beekeeping for All" by Abbé Warré has been translated from French in 2010 by Dr. David and Patricia Heaf and is available as a free download at; Bee keeping for all More information on the Abbé and the hive is available at; Biobees
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