Thanks to everyone who attended the Open Healthware Conference! For those that missed out, you can check out the streamed video on our YouTube youtube.com/@OpenSourceHardware

Check out our recommended practices guide up at oshwa.org!

Don't forget to check out the full list of best practices guides up at OSHWA.ORG

Our medical and makers workshop was a hit!

We were stoked to host our first Medical and Makers workshop. If you missed it, check out the recap of this project below. To keep up with more Open Healthware, check out our new site Healthware.oshwa.org

Our Open Healthware Certification is out now! Certify your open healthware device at Healthware.oshwa.org As part of the debut, we held and Open Healthware Certification workshop as part of Open Source Healthware week in San Francisco. Check out our wrap up video on how it went.

Thank you so much for joining us in San Francisco for the 2026 Open Healthware Week! We are so happy to have witnessed so many incredible talks, workshop collaborations, projects and conversations among attendees.

Wrapping up with Avinash Baskaran Ph.D. talking about how the path to an open source healthware ecosystem

Dan Blizinski is here and bringing folks through the trenches of building community around open medical devices

Anthony Di Franco coming in with his talk on Open Source solutions for medical supply chain challenges post break!

adriana cabrera is up highlighting how collaborative prototyping, interdisciplinary practices, and material experimentation can contribute to new pathways for assistive device development in health and rehabilitation.

Yadira Sanchez is telling us about her experiences developing a device that measures the fine particles in the smoke in response to the difficulties of rural and Indigenous kitchens in communities across Mexico

This is real. Every major infrastructure and service needs a well equipped makerspace.

Silvestr is taking us through what it looks like to make 3D printing replicable under contraints

We're joined by Stephen Applebaum taking us throuhg reviving a Class II Electrical Median Nerve Stimulator!

Day 2 of our @oshwassociation.bsky.social Open Source Healthware Conference is now live on YouTube. While we're focused on medical devices the event is broadly applicable to all hardware developers. www.youtube.com/live/6y4A6bc...

Enrico Bassi has taken the stage to talk how supply chains fail in conflict or crisis, open hardware and hospital makerspaces become real health infrastructure alternatives

Jen Wilson is joining us virtually to tell us about quality assurance is one of the areas in open source manufacturing !

Andrew Lamb is up to tell us all about the ways that Open Healthware exists around the world (and somehow so many of these projects happen to be in the room!)

Daniel Lam and George Fakes presenting on what it means to restore a discontinued clinical tool through open sourcing

Welcome back to Day 2 of the Open Healthware Conference! You can watch all the talks LIVE on Youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y4A...

Welcome to Day 2! We've got Alexandra Bremers, Ph.D. kicking us off with a talk on the results of a global replication study (N=10) of the Glia Tourniquet!

That's a wrap on Day 1! Thanks for a great first day of the Open Healthware Conference! See you all online and back at Gray Space tomorrow :)

Hitting our final talk of Day 1 with Reitwiec Shandilya on his Open pressure project and reclaiming abandoned medical device through open source hardware

Joel Murphy is presenting ~virtually on the experiencing of making the PulseSensor

The wonderful Dr. Aisen Chacin presenting on bioreactors for Regenerative Bacterial Cellulose in Surgical Simulation

Jack Keenan and Alex Barton are giving all the deets on small scale manufacturing Glia tourniquets!

Erin McKiernan welcoming us back from lunch with her talk on open hardware for biomedical education

Check out this $400 commercial braile printer at the @oshwassociation.bsky.social open healthware summit. Commercial printers cost almost $4000 making them unaffordable in the global south. If you're interested in this kind of stuff we're currently running a conference in SF.

Liz Henry and Olga Prilepova are guiding us through what it means to make a repairable wheelchair

Doug B is bringing us back post break with a talk on open source MRI

Bo Morgan is bringing us through assistive technology for blind and low vision people

Alex Hornstein is up telling us about the treatment gap in epilepsy

Alessia Romani describing the work behind creating the mNasometer!

Dr. Yves Nazon kicked us off by talking about the new Healthware certification process and how we developed it!

Our @oshwassociation.bsky.social Open Healthware Conference just kicked off! If you want to learn more about making medical equipment free and open source please tune into our live stream. www.youtube.com/live/g7AY7-i...

The Open Healthware Conference 2026 is up and running! Livestream is going all day both days, tune in and find out what's happening in the world of open source and health www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7AY...

Kicking off the Open Healthware Conference with a workshop in our new certification process with Yves Nazon and Avinash Baskaran!

Check out Doug Brantner's talk "Open Source MRI" at the Open Healthware Conference on July 9th and 10th in San Francisco. OpenSourceImaging.org has developed the OSI² ONE MRI - a working, fully open source, low-cost MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) machine, including both hardware and software.

Reitwiec Shandilya will be sharing his talk "Open Pressure Sensing Device(OpenPSD): Reclaiming Abandoned Medical Devices Through Open-Source Hardware" on day one of the Open Healthware Conference. Join us in San Francisco or online! Bit.ly/OpenHealthwareConference2026

Christian Villarreal and Juan Escudero will be sharing their talk "From Biofilm to Bioengineered Tubular Constructs: A Rotational Bioreactor for Regenerative Bacterial Cellulose in Surgical Simulation" at the Open Healthware Conference!

The Open Healthware Conference is coming up soon and we can't wait to gather around some incredible projects and people like Alex and Jack from DMDM! Join us for their talk "Quality management systems for small scale community manufacturing".

We're excited to share that adriana cabrera will be sharing her talk "Open innovation, Soft & Bio-inspired Technologies, Wearables" at the Open Healthware Conference in San Francisco. We have virtual and in person ticket options for this conference! See you this week in SF or online.

During the intro, we'll have a couple of guest announcements about upcoming #hardware events! • @oshwassociation.bsky.social –https://2026.healthware.oshwa.org • @crowdsupply.bsky.social – www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por... We'll also be at @opensaucelive.bsky.social in mid-July. Big month!!

Thanks for sharing @alexglow.bsky.social !!

CriptasticHacker is speaking at our Open Healthware Conference in San Francisco! Check out his talk "Bee Venom Therapy, Opensource Bee Cage Climate Control, and Indigenous Health Practices"

Enrico Bassi will be sharing his talk "Open Hardware and Hospital Makerspaces in Healthcare Emergencies" at our Open Healthware Conference! Enrico is a designer, maker, researcher, and innovation consultant. Check out his talk and more at our conference.

Dan Blizinski will be sharing his talk "Building Community Around Open Medical Devices: Lessons from the Trenches" at our Open Healthware Conference! Openwater will also be hosting a closing reception on Friday night, come party with us! Bit.ly/OpenHealthwareConference2026

Andrew Lamb will be sharing his talk "Open Healthware - Around the World" at our Open Healthware Conference in San Francisco! Check out his talk and more and grab your free tickets to attend in person or virtually at Bit.ly/OpenHealthwareConference2026

We're excited to welcome back Anthony Di Franco as a speaker on day two of our second annual Open Healthware Conference. Anthony Di Franco is the president of the Open Insulin Foundation and will be sharing his talk "Open Source solutions for medical supply chain challenges". Check it out!