Home of the annual Open Hardware Summit hybrid remote & inperson summit celebrating open source creations l Edinburgh 2025⚡⚙️🔧 News at
@oshwassociation
It's official!! We're going to Edinburgh, Scotland for 2025!! We're so excited to make it over the pond and get to see all the exciting open source work happening over there!
We are also now accepting proposals, hit up to learn more.
For too long we have used "Master" and "Slave" to describe hardware component relationships. This must change.
As one step towards racial equity, we call upon developers to adopt the Resolution to Redefine SPI Pin Names. Read our full post and resolution:
Thank you so so much for such an incredible Summit everyone. We love you all so much and we’re so thankful we got to share space, knowledge and time with you 🥰
The Open Hardware Facts generator creates an easy-to-read label containing your project's licenses, which can then be placed in your readme file or documentation. Generate yours here:
Amy Wibowo is presenting 'Putting the Personal in Personal Computer by Designing and Fabricating My Own Computer Cases'! Make sure to catch
@sailorhg
at
#OHS2023
We're excited to invite you to the Open Hardware Summit in Montreal, May 3 & 4. There will be 2 days of hands-on workshops, talks, demos & more. If you're an experienced Open Hardware maker, or just curious about what open source means, join us:
📢🚨We're extremely excited to announce the call for proposals for 2023 Open Hardware Summit! We're accepting talks, workshops, and demo tables, deadline December 16! Please share, please submit! We want your weird and wonderful ideas! See you in New York!
Here’s all of the certified open source hardware from December Hardware from Chile, Croatia, Sweden, UK, and US. Bio, electrical, music, art, disaster relief...
Thank you so much for an incredible Summit! We had an absolute blast hanging out with y’all for the last three days and we already can’t wait til next time! A special thank you to our Day 2 hosts
@lespacemaker
and all our incredible sponsors ❤️
We are so excited to announce that our
#OHS2024
keynote speaker is
@danielleboyerr
!! Danielle is an incredible robotics creator who made SkoBots, interactive wearable Indigenous language robots as well as affordable robot kits, BioBotz and the Every Kid Gets a Robot program!
We are BEYOND EXCITED about our incredible keynote speaker, Dr. Carlotta Berry
@DrCABerry
!! Dr. Berry has been creating robots during her time as a Trailblazer fellow and will be presenting 'Robotics for the Streets: Open-source robotics for academics and the community' !
Here it is: our 2024 Open Hardware Summit attendee badge! Based on the illustrations by Enna Kim this little guy was made by Cyber City Circuits
@MakeAugusta
as a badge. The badge features SAO headers which makes it hackable, we’ll even have a table set up to hack yours!
Tune in to Trailbazer Fellow Manu Prakash's talk 'Frugal science: Tackling societal challenges with curiosity, openness and a little bit of play'! We can't wait to learn what
@PrakashLab
has found!
Have you been thinking about using our new API to get your hardware certified as open source but wasn’t sure how to get started?
@adafruit
has a new guide for submitting an open source project!
And, of course, certification is still free
2022 Summit Fellow Alexandra Covor is
@AlexandraCovor
back and presenting her talk 'STEAM is better than STEM - Making Tech Education More Accessible Through Art' at
#OHS2023
!
📢🚨We're excited to share that
@Sparkfun
is sponsoring one more round of goodie bag shipping after the summit, April 2022! We have 95 more bags available globally, as well as free, PWYC, and donation tickets.💌💾
📢Hey you🫵🏿! Tag someone you would like to see speak at this year's Open Hardware Summit! The deadline ends in 1 week and we want all your weird and wonderful workshops, talks, and demos!
Based on community feedback, we've decided to shift away from Open Hardware Month virtual events this year and focus on labelling, certifying, and documenting projects from home. Understandably, video meetings are not in high demand this year...
We've gotta give a big, massive thank you to
@beagleboardorg
for just being so great! We're so lucky to get to make things like the Summit happen thanks to their support!
New certified open source hardware! The
@system76
Thelio Mega (US000677)
Have OSHW to certify? It's free!
Want to see other certified OSHW? Check out the full list!
Big
#OpenHardwareMonth
news (x2)!
1. 2020 OSHW Weather Report (a collab w/
@NYUEngelberg
) is live, detailing the state of OSHW now
2. OSHW Certification program has an API!
We've been lucky to have very rad attendee badges over the years. Boards, lego, e-ink & more it's been so fun figuring out ways to celebrate the Summit in badge form! Let's take a moment to remember past badges we've gotten to use. Do you still have any of your Summit badges?
🇸🇻First certified open source hardware from El Salvador 🇸🇻! The
@hackerspacesv
HSSV ATSAMR21 Breakout (SV000001)
Have OSHW to certify? It's free!
Want to see other certified OSHW? Check out the full list!
Lukas F. Hartmann (
@minut_e
) will be presenting at the Open Hardware Summit, talking about "Question Everything: How we Shipped an Open Hardware Laptop by Breaking all the Rules" 🎉
Don't miss it! Get tickets at:
It’s time to start talking programming!
#OHS2024
will kick off with keynote
@danielleboyerr
who will speak on using robotics to address education equality in the Anishinaabe community, and revitalizing language with her SkoBots!
We’re thrilled to announce our keynote speaker for OHS 2022,
@AshleyJaneLewis
! Ashley is a technologist with a focus on empowered black communities of the past, present and future through machine learning, networked devices, & bio art. She is an
@ITP_NYU
grad &
@sfpc
instructor!
The Summit will still go forward as a live stream with a schedule similar to what has been announced with the bonus of online chats and hangs.. ! More soon:
Our hashtag is
#ohs2020Virtual
Spotlight on our 2022 Ada Fellows!
@AlexandraCovor
is a maker and Embedded Engineer from Bucharest, Romania working on are wearables and anything involving colorful LEDs, tiny microcontrollers, or PCB design.
We're officially less than two weeks away to the
#OHS2023
!! Snag your ticket today and don't forget that getting a virtual ticket gets you a digital goodie bag full of rad digital goodies!!
Now you gotta have a good lanyard for a successful Summit and thanks to
@beagleboardorg
we’ve got some really gorgeous ones! They’re even Kitty Man Approved! Thank you BeagleBoard for helping us hold it all together
We've got a couple robotics experts out for
#OHS2024
including
@Odd_Jayy
Jorvon Moss who will speak on ways we can make robots lifelike and sociable for modern day society!
Come watch
@helenleigh
's talk "Robot unicorns, moon cello gloves and open technology" tomorrow at the Open Hardware Summit! 15 hours left to get your ticket:
📢🚨🔧We've extended the deadline until January 6 2023! Submit your talks, workshops, and demos to the Open Hardware Summit, happening this April in NYC and remotely! ❤️🤖⚡️
huge thanks to all of this years
#ohs2020Virtual
sponsors! Our 10th anniversary event and amazing community would not be possible without your support!