Turning A Bluetooth Caliper Into A FreeCAD Input Device It’s a common ritual: whipping out those calipers or similar measuring devices to measure part of a physical object that we’re trying to transfer into a digital model in an application …

Turning A Bluetooth Caliper Into A #FreeCAD Input Device via Hackaday
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cadquery 2.7.0 release updates | medicationforall Get more from medicationforall on Patreon

In heavy development mode.
I updated my libraries to utilize cadquery 2.7.0
www.patreon.com/posts/cadque...

#cadquery #pythondevelopment

The OpenFlexure microscope in educational settings The OpenFlexure microscope (OFM) has already been established as a technology of the future being featured in the "WHO compendium of innovative health technologies for low-resource settings" (page 69)...

Post on the OpenScienceShop blog about using the OpenFlexure microscope in educational settings. #OpenScience #OpenHardware #OScH

www.openscienceshop.org/the-openflex...

Radicle 1.8.0 – Drosera Sovereign code infrastructure.

Radicle 1.8.0, Drosera, has been released; quick off the back of our 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 releases.

⚠️ This release contains the previous security fix and downgrade protections, so please upgrade your nodes ASAP.

👾 Check out our update radicle.xyz/2026/03/30/r...
👾 Get the latest radicle.xyz/download 🌱

An orange and red letter "G" with graphics suggesting circuitry and temples above it. The words "GOSH Kathmandu 2026" below.

We are excited to announce the GOSH Global Gathering 2026!

📍 Kathmandu, Nepal
📅 October 4–6, 2026

Hosted by our long-time collaborators Karkhana Samuha.

For more info and to register & apply for travel support please visit: openhardware.science/gosh-2026-ka...

cqterrain 3.8.2 Release - Ruins | medicationforall Get more from medicationforall on Patreon

cqterrain 3.8.2
github.com/medicationfo...
pypi.org/project/cqte...

Read more about the release here:
www.patreon.com/posts/cqterr...

#cadquery #pythondevelopment #opensource

Forgetfulino Puts Back Up Of Source Inside The Binary How often have you pulled out old MCU-based project that still works fine, but you have no idea where the original source code has gone? Having the binary image and the source code as separate thin…

Forgetfulino Puts Back Up Of Source Inside The Binary via Hackaday #arduino hackaday.com/2026/03/18/f...

New Releases and Pypi | medicationforall Get more from medicationforall on Patreon

All of my open source #cadquery #wargaming #terrain libraries are now up on pypi.org

You can read more about it here:
www.patreon.com/posts/new-re...

* cadqueryhelper
* cqterrain
* cqfantasy
* cqindustry
*cqgothic

Announcing the location partner for the next Gathering! Dear GOSH Community, I am excited to share a quick update with you regarding the location of the next Gathering! The Gathering Working Group has spent the last several weeks working together to sele...

@goshcommunity.bsky.social has announced their partner location for the next Gathering for Open Science Hardware: Katmandu, Nepal. The gathering will be October 4th through 6th. #OScH #OpenScience #OpenHardware

forum.openhardware.science/t/announcing...

Using 3D Printed Breadboards To Accommodate Wide Boards Although off-the-shelf breadboards are plentiful and cheap, they almost always seem to use the same basic design. Although you can clumsily reassemble most of them by removing the voltage rail sect…

Using 3D Printed Breadboards To Accommodate Wide Boards like ESP32 via Hackaday #electronics hackaday.com/2026/02/17/u...

a recursive pattern in build123d, interactive sandbox with code here: jojain.github.io/build123d-sa...

The KiCad logo under a funnel with other EDA logos being fed into the funnel

KiCad version 10 coming soon with some exciting new features including new importers!

www.kicad.org/blog/2026/02...

The Internet Still Works: Wikipedia Defends Its Editors Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. But recent debates about the law often overlook

Wikipedia receives hundreds of legal demands every year to remove user-written content. Almost all are rejected. We spoke with Wikimedia’s legal team about how Section 230 helps protect volunteer editors and public knowledge. www.eff.org/pages/inter...

Defend Privacy and Free Speech We're building a better web together. Donate to help out Certbot and all of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's public interest software development, activism, and legal work. Your support...

What's Certbot? It's EFF's free, open source tool for automatically using Let’s Encrypt certificates on millions of domains across the web. It's also part of a growing number of EFF technology projects designed to protect your freedom online. Help support this work today! eff.org/support-cer...

How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns and some…

How vibe coding Is hurting open source via Hackaday #OpenSource hackaday.com/2026/02/02/h...

Making Mayor Clayton’s WonderLab - Make: Creating a whimsical makerspace for "wish" kids.

Making Mayor Clayton's Wonderlab at Give Kids The World Village by Make: magazine #steam #stem #makerspace #accessibility

makezine.com/article/work...

KiCad has released a new packaging format for Linux. You can know run the latest KiCad using AppImage. This is still in testing, so please give it a spin and let us know if something doesn't work correctly. You can find them at downloads.kicad.org

cadqueryhelper 2.0.5 | medicationforall Get more from medicationforall on Patreon

Another cadqueryhelper release 2.0.5
www.patreon.com/posts/cadque...

#procedural #cadquery #3dmodeling #rocks

"CAD to DAGMC" is a #Python package that converts CAD geometry to DAGMC h5m files, unstructured mesh files, and Gmsh files ready for use in neutronics simulations. One of the input formats is the open source #CadQuery project that I help maintain.

fusion-energy.github.io/cad_to_dagmc...

Ken-ichi Ueda | Patreon Natural history software

I quit my job at #iNaturalist, the product I co-founded. If you'd like me to keep working on natural history software, support me on Patreon: patreon.com/kueda. FWIW, I'm building an iNat backup tool and an app for viewing geologic maps.

Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!

Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨‍🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/

cadqueryhelper 1.7.2 Release - Cleanup And New Shapes | medicationforall Get more from medicationforall on Patreon

cadqueryhelper 1.7.2 release
github.com/medicationfo...

More Information here:
www.patreon.com/posts/cadque...

#cadquery #PythonDev #cad

Very cool library. Would you consider adding it to the awesome-cadquery repo?

github.com/CadQuery/awe...

A promotional graphic titled “Publishing Beyond the Market.” The top half has a gray textured background with the event title in large white text and a vertical label reading “Book Talk.” To the right is an illustration of a tall, uneven stack of books. The bottom half shows two headshots: on the left, Samuel Moore; on the right, Heather Joseph. Text below reads “with Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph.”

#Booktalk tomorrow!
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, exploring how commons-based publishing can offer fair and ethical alternatives.
📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social

A picture says that Open Science Retreat Global and Join us and send in your application now.

Final Call! OSR applications close 30 November!
If you’ve been planning to apply, this is the moment.
Join an international community of researchers & open science practitioners for a week of focus, creativity, collaboration, and connection in Machynlleth.
Apply: buff.ly/6z1PhfU

GOSH Community Call | November 20, 2025 YouTube video by GOSH community

It turns out documentation can take a village, and maybe it should.

Our latest Community Call with Julien Colomb dug into his new Hardware Documentation Guide & how collaborative documentation strengthens access, reuse & community.

Watch the video here: youtu.be/zgbqBfvAmNI

New Vendor Information Information and resources for new Open Science Shop vendors

The Open Science Shop is working to develop a distributed manufacturing network of open science hardware. I am excited to share that the Open Science Shop has now documented the steps you can take to become an open science hardware vendor. Check it out here: www.openscienceshop.org/new_vendors/

Open letter: Harnessing open source AI to advance digital sovereignty Europe is at a crossroads. The Summit on European Digital Sovereignty marks an important milestone for the EU and its member states in aligning on a shared strategy for achieving real and lasting European digital sovereignty. As the EU pursues the goal of digital sovereignty, we urge you to harness open source — that is, technology that is free to use, inspect, adapt, and share — as a key enabler of this strategy.

As the EU pursues the goal of digital sovereignty, we urge you to harness open source — that is, technology that is free to use, inspect, adapt, and share — as a key enabler of this strategy.  opensource.org/blog/open-letter-harness...

The wall of a workspace, with tools hanging from a peg board.

Documentation isn’t glamorous, but it is what makes open hardware reusable.

Join us Thursday as @Juliencolomb walks us through his new Hardware Documentation Guide.

📅 Nov 20 • 12:00 UTC
🔗 Registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🌟 New to GOSH? We’d love to meet you! Join our next Welcome Call on Thursday, December 4 at 12:00 UTC. 🛠️ Learn about the community, ask questions, and connect with others.

Space is limited to 5 people — register soon! 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regis...