Join me at Open Hardware Summit in Berlin this May.

Tickets are affordable and you'll come back a little more inspired that a better world is possible.

We're also still looking for sponsors who want to get their products in front of the open source community!

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We are so excited to announce the talks and workshop schedule for #OHS2026! Check out the lineup and see who is joining us from all over the world to talk open source hardware and maybe even register for one of the incredible workshops we'll have running on Day 2: 2026.oshwa.org/schedule/

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We've got the latest certification round up on Make and Hackster.io! See 3 new certs we loved including the first Vietnamese cert from Long Phan, the first Pakistani cert from Hariz Zoran Farooq & we're so stoked that Ribbit Network has certified their frogs! Read here: makezine.com/article/make...

ICE OUT 0F EVERYWHERE JOIN OUR NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH MINNESOTA. ABOLISH ICE NOW! JAN 30 BLACKOUT-DON'T WORK. DON'T SHOP. SHUT DOWN THE ECONOMY. JAN 31 PROTEST HIT THE STREETS. MAKE NOISE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE JAN 31 PROTEST. HIT THE STREETS. MAKE NOISE. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

ICE OUT! NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN! NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. JAN 30, 2026 SIGN ON TO JOIN US: NationalShutdown.us

On 1/30 we are shutting it down, and, on 1/31, we are gathering across the country to demand ICE Out of Everywhere, permanently!

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We are soooo excited to announce that the tickets for the 2026 Open Hardware Summit are officially available! Snag your tickets today and maybe even get yourself an extra cool Summit tee? 👀

ticket.nodeforum.org/OHS26/

Why Open-Source Matters For the Future of Hardware For most of modern technological history, hardware development has been dominated by closed and proprietary design practices. Schematics are hidden, firmware is locked down, and manufacturing details ...

We love this writeup on Ponoko's blog on open source hardware and why we need it! Check it out here:

www.ponoko.com/blog/ponoko/...

First @oshwassociation.bsky.social certified open hardware from Pakistan (certification.oshwa.org/pk000001.html) and Vietnam (certification.oshwa.org/vn000001.html).

There are so many countries in the directory that it has been a long time since we had 2 new ones in the same week!

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Curious about what's coming with the Open Healthware Certification? Read all about it right here: oshwa.org/announcement...

I'm not on social media much anymore, it's not you, it's me. After the Great Twitter Migration, I just started reading books instead. It's been really enjoyable. I want to keep it touch digitally, but it's also kind of exhausting. I just thought I should say something :) #read #books

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"Adopting this framework will help overcome resource limitations, enabling research labs and individuals to design and replicate medical devices at an affordable cost."

Read Dara Obademi's insights on the development of Open Healthware in the Sub-Saharan African region.

oshwa.org/announcement...

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Healthware Categorization Study OSHWA is collecting community perspectives about categorization of healthware (health and medical hardware). Please contribute your perspective!

Are you in Healthware? We want your input! Check out our Healthware Categorization Survey here: forms.gle/ytqA14iaLMiA...

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We are officially seeking applications for TALKS, WORKSHOPS, EXHIBITIONS, ART and PERFORMANCES for OHS2026 May 23rd and 24th at TU Berlin! Submit yours today: forms.gle/kDGTVqfVAZXm...

Applications run until December 21st at 11:59pm EDT.

Live in five! Come hang! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otvs...

screenshot of the schedule with Guy Dupont Kari Love APPC Nick Puckett Yu Lee Leon Anavi Ayesha Iftiqhar Olimex COSMIIC Michael Weinberg ICantMakeThings Michael Di-Rocco

Curious about how the day is going to go? The first four hours of the livestream looks like this! Join us on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0e...

Show and Tell 12 hour Membership Drive YouTube video by The Open Source Hardware Association

The @oshwassociation.bsky.social all day Livestream is so fun!

It's so jam packed with fun projects and speakers and it's basically like getting to go to a whole extra open Hardware summit for free!

Watch it right now!
www.youtube.com/live/Yn0e7AP...

i’ll be on tomorrow!! 2:40 pm mountain time!

ohm 12 hr livestream poster with text that read open hardware month featuring sloths and open hardware creators october 6th 8am-8pm EDT 12 hour live stream

TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY! join us starting at 8am EST & spend all day hearing about open hardware from amazing creators who are doing incredible work all over the world! PLUS new members/donations of any amount get our very cool poster inspired by last year's stream
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0e...

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Me and @cyborggarbage.bsky.social are ready to go in the morning for the @oshwassociation.bsky.social 12 hour Livestream!!!! Tune in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0e...

Open Hardware Month Fundraiser, Supporting Open Source Hardware Association The Open Source Hardware Association works to spread awareness and knowledge of open source practices. We work to help show people how and why sharing their work for everyone to make and iterate on is...

It's official! We are in Open Hardware Month! 🎉 It's time to celebrate all the wonderful ways open source hardware can exist and get those projects certified ;) Also maybe snag a fun variation on our fundraiser merch?

www.customink.com/fundraising/...

Our Healthware Highlights series continues by looking at the work that Field Ready does to provide medical devices around the world. Read more here: oshwa.org/announcement...

OSHWA Healthware Ecosystem survey OSHWA was awarded an NSF POSE Phase II grant to bolster the Open Healthware Ecosystem through a new open source certification for healthware. We request your assistance to understand the healthware c...

Are you part of the Healthware community? We want your feedback! Fill out our Open Healthware Ecosystem survey.

forms.gle/hE8Q7uBAyPbV...

Now out on Hackster.io and Make: the August 2025 certification round up featuring @concretedog.bsky.social's Magnet PCB clamps, Mark Salazar's DIY Suture Board and William Kennedy's Contactless Bicycle Dynamo and Light! Read it here: makezine.com/article/tech...

Our moms keep asking us what we do for work.
We thought we'd make some content for Sunday dinner!

Varro plans to make money while giving away its tech The St. Louis-startup hopes its bet on open source principles will spawn a global community built around its biosensors.

Check out this article featuring Varro Life Sciences and how open source fits into their business practices! It's so exciting to see more and more people take notice of the invaluable work they do!
www.stlmag.com/business/var...

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Our fourth Open Healthware Session took place in Boulder, Colorado and gathered folks from across the community to discuss business practices, community building, funding, risk and source. Read all about the takeaways right here: oshwa.org/announcement...

It was incredible! We can’t say thank you enough but we can try! From NSF, to speakers, to in person and online attendees - thank you, thank you, thank you!!

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Early August we wrapped up OSHWA’s first ever Open Healthware Conference. For two days we got to hear from incredible creators within the Open Healthware community, see demos of devices meant to better the medical world, & meet new folks from the community.

oshwa.org/announcement...

Watch it now: www.youtube.com/live/QJuA1LE...

We're also super stoked to be able to have all these projects on the Show & Tell Monthly livestream on August 21st