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

"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...

Happening now!

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

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...

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...

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!

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...

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...

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...

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!

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...

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!!

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

We're so proud of OSHWA Board Member Oluwatobi Oyinlola for his Guinness World Record for world's smallest GPS tracking device! Congrats Tobi! www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-record...

The Open Source Hardware Association is launching a new Open Hardware Creators in Academia program for undergraduate and graduate students: The Student Open Hardware Fellowship. Want to nominate or self-nominate to participate in the Student Open Hardware Fellowship? forms.gle/aq9YCZS8gzUL...

Thanks for the write up @hacksterio.bsky.social ! www.hackster.io/news/open-he...

Are you a part of Open Healthware community and want to be part of the next steps of OSHWA's Open Healthware ecosystem? Give your input through our OSHWA Healthware Ecosystem survey: forms.gle/Z6CfPMbRwrzJ...

This was one of my favorite talks at the conference, and it's worth watching! We don't talk enough about the intersection of biomedical engineering and art, and Chacin's work (and that of her students) truly explores that space. youtu.be/8i8moU_zv2o?...

Now up on the OSHWA site! Our third Healthware Highlight exploring the ways that MakeGood INC is working with 3D printing and accessible design with folks with disabilities! Check it out here: oshwa.org/announcement...

Up now is Jean Rintoul, PhD talking about Spectra: Portable and open medical imaging - how far toward diagnostics can it go?

We've got Chris Rexroth of COSMIIC and Addie Cobb of Varro addressing Opportunities for open healthware community mobilization informed by experiences of high-risk device initiative

Susan Tappan of SPARC.science is talking SPARC - bridging the body and the brain using FAIR principles for data, models, and devices.

Only at the Open Hardware Summit #OHS2025 will you find a table where a NASA engineer, a social roboticist, software developers, and a robotics engineer all sitting together... embroidering a #PCB onto fabric. #OpenHardware #OSHWA #GlitchAndStitch photo credit: Jinger Zeng

We've got Dara Obademi ways to expand access to healthware in Africa

Next up is Victoria Jaqua on The Legacy and Impact of Open Source Medical Supplies (OSMS) 2020 and Beyond!

Andrew Lamb is up talking about Humanitarian Making - how we showed what was ready

Join us for day 2 of Open Healthware! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i8m...

Arti Ahluwalia is up now talking about her work on UBORA

Day 2 of the Open Healthware Conference will begin in about 30 minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i8m... #Healthware

Speaker Highlight! Dara Obademi will be sharing his talk "Open Healthware: Expanding Access to Medical Devices in Africa" on Day 2 of the #OpenhealthwareConference ! Check out his talk! We can't wait!

Speaker Highlight - Jean Rintoul! Jean will be sharing her talk "Spectra: Portable and open medical imaging - how far toward diagnostics can it go?" on day 2 of the #OpenHealthwareConference and we are so very excited about it! Check out her talk and reserve tickets at Healthware.Oshwa.org

While I am celebrating the first @oshwassociation.bsky.social certified open hardware from Serbia (certification.oshwa.org/rs000001.html), I will admit that my favorite thing this month is the slime mold powered smart watch certification.oshwa.org/us002764.html

Alex Hornstein is taking that stage to tell us about battling against entropy: choosing to find solutions to complex problems in low resource environments.

We're getting started with day 1 of the Open Healthware Conference ! Join us online www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpt5...

We're #hiring! The Open Science Hardware Foundation seeks an Executive Director to lead our growing non-profit. We seek expertise in: Executive Leadership Resource Mobilization Strategic program development Effective Communication #openscience #openhardware minifi.ca/ZSxhj

Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it.

Oh man, how did I miss the news about sticker mule. Ick. I live under a rock to protect my mental health, that's how. Time to find a new sticker company.

Meet Poppy Northcutt, the Woman Who Helped Bring the #Apollo11 Astronauts Home Safely #WomenInSTEM time.com/5614162/apol... Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy #OTD in 1969.

@makernews-rt.bsky.social Wow! Thank you for showing all of my posts so much love!!!! #Robot #Robotics #RoboticsEngineer #Engineering #Engineer #STEM #STEAM #BlackWomenSTEM #BlackWomenSTEAM #PurposefulProfessor #EngineeringProfessor #NoireSTEMinist

We can’t believe we’re hosting our first ever Open Healthware Conference! 2 incredible days of speakers, interactive demos, and community building. Curious about the future of open source medical/health devices? This conference is for you! Grab your free tickets to attend at Healthware.oshwa.org

Now up on the OSHWA site! Our second Healthware Highlight exploring the ways that OpenNerve has committed to the work of open source healthware from the very beginning of its' existence. Read more: oshwa.org/announcement...