Always a good day when another @oshpark.bsky.social purple package arrives!

Front view with the right most motor spinning.

🎉 #Teardown2026 will be happening 24-26th July. We're in a cool new space: the Jupiter on Burnside. Our 60s mall era is dead, long live our 60s motel era. Tickets, calls for participation + volunteers, and general info on the @crowdsupply.bsky.social site: www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por...

Excited as always to get to the prototype manufacturing stage & wait impatiently for my purple PCBs from @oshpark.bsky.social ! Gatekeeper is coming alive in 4HP! #modular #synthsky #eurorack

Live now! @helenleigh.bsky.social from @crowdsupply.bsky.social talks to @oshwassociation.bsky.social about the 2026 Open Hardware Summit coming to #Berlin next May! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY1I... #OSHWA #OpenHardware #OSHW

Live in 30 minutes!

Finally got a prototype luster fired a year later & it feels good! Yeah, it’s ugly (first time working with porcelain & first time water etching), but there’s an @oshpark.bsky.social circuit board I designed in there & it feels good to realize my vision of conductive glaze as a switch. #pottery

Main Planchette update = a decoupling capacitor :) The URL isn't live yet; website updates are still pending, but hopefully by the time testers arrive from @oshpark.bsky.social , it'll be ready. :) Original tutorial is on @hacksterio.bsky.social – www.hackster.io/glowascii/ou...

New board ordered via @oshpark.bsky.social - hard to beat their pricing for little experiments like this! @kicad.org

Hey #Portland, Multnomah County Animal Services is in a critical overcapacity situation with a maximum capacity of 92 dog kennels, the facility is currently housing over 103 dogs on site: www.multcopets.org/news/immedia... #PDX #PortlandPDX #Multnomah #Oregon

Move slow and fix stuff! It's Open Hardware Month at @oshwassociation.bsky.social oshwa.org/announcement...

The next Open Hardware Summit will be in Berlin! Follow @oshwassociation.bsky.social for more!

Live now! Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) is doing a Show and Tell 12 hour Membership Drive with creators from all over joining us to show off their work! @oshwassociation.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0e...

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...

5m until we are live @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEOm...

Live now! Join @crowdsupply.bsky.social @helenleigh.bsky.social for a conversation with Tim Ansell (@mith.ro) about @wafer.space, a new way for chip designers to easily turn a design into real, working chips: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEOm... #OpenHardware #OSHW #OpenSilicon #OpenPDK

Not all floppies were beige n' boring. #retrogaming #retrocomputing #art #photography

My 386EX V2 boards from @oshpark.bsky.social are here! My Mouser order doesn't get here until tomorrow though, I can probably solder the CPUs on tonight.

Slimming down my proto pcb; I screwed something up and now I'm lowering the scope to nail it down. This one only cost $4 since I removed a big edge connector. Thanks @oshpark.bsky.social !

@oshpark.bsky.social has my 386EX v2 boards in the mail to me 5 days after I ordered them! How's that for turnaround.

ArduinoX86 stickers! Catch me at VCF Midwest and get yours! #retrocomputing

V2 386EX board - now with more 387 FPU! Let's do it! @oshpark.bsky.social

My @oshpark.bsky.social PCBs arrived. They are part of my #kicad project to create a #KIM-1 #65c02 computer replica, with a twist. I started with the original schematic but broke it into SMT modules. Each module is a castellated #PCB "stamp" for a larger main board that I'm finishing up.

@oshpark.bsky.social yall are goated; these pcbs are gorgeous

It was an all day effort but 500 kits have been assembled with the help of several volunteers (only some of whom report to me and were "voluntold").

First up: massive thanks to @oshpark.bsky.social for donating 250 beautiful purple PCBs! I've only seen pictures as they were shipped to @architeuthisflux.bsky.social who has been a massive help in coordinating this effort & also deserves a shout out He makes a really cool bit of kit; check it out!

In his first PCB Friday article, Hackster PRO Jeremy Cook explores how a properly formed PCB footprint can act as a coin cell battery holder with no extra parts: www.hackster.io/news/pcb-fri...

I decided ArduinoX86 needed a mascot, so I made this lil guy. He's @oshpark.bsky.social purple, of course. He needs a good name though! #retrocomputing

Got some beautiful PCBs from @oshpark.bsky.social for this one! www.techadjacent.io/p/saving-mon...

Controlling a 286 with an Arduino is so last week. We control 386's now. #retrocomputing #emulation

Did you donate to the @defconnextgen.bsky.social soldering kit fundraiser by my dear friend @rayredacted.com? DM me your preferred handle for the back; half the boards will have some handles on them (the other half are already being produced by @oshpark.bsky.social - they are donating 250 PCBs!).

No wayyyyyyy; @oshpark.bsky.social yall are incredibly cool

Fixed it! github.com/CircuitMonke... Get a breakout PCB. Just upload to @oshpark.bsky.social github.com/CircuitMonke...

Here we go! An ESP32-S3 running MicroPython using each of the Monstera leafs as a capacitive touch pad. Each pad works individually and multitouch works across all four too! #electronics #microPython

My latest boards from @oshpark.bsky.social have arrived! Hand-drawn Monstera leaf capacitive touch pads with curved PCB traces. I wonder how well they will work. They're a bit of a proof-of-concept at the moment. #electronics

Last month, I attended Hack Club's Apex hackathon in Boston with my high-altitude balloon payload, StratoSpore. Its electronics featured PCBs sponsored by @oshpark.bsky.social. This was my second time using their .8mm/2oz Copper service, and the boards were, as always, excellent.

Another beauty shot:

Some really beautiful work by @oshpark.bsky.social

Attending @crowdsupply.bsky.social #Teardown2025 today? Make sure to check out Portland State Aerospace Society and OreSat - it's all open source hardware! www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por... #OpenHardware #OpenSource #PDX #Portland #Aerospace #Cubesat #OSHW

Baby oscilloscope! 💖 Ben Hencke brought their tiny SAOScope to the #Teardown2025 party at #PDX #hackersapce Ctrl-H last night! It can do 1 Ms/s at 12 bit. The knobs work including trigger! #Portland #Badgelife

Kate Stewart of the @linuxfoundation.org kicks off Day 2 of @crowdsupply.bsky.social #teardown2025 in #portland. www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por... #pdx #hardware #Embedded  #IoT #Zephry #OpenSource

Help the #Zephyr Project by letting Kate Stewart of the @linuxfoundation.org know about devices running #ZephyrRTOS docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #OpenSource #Teardown2025 @crowdsupply.bsky.social

@alexglow.bsky.social now on stage at @crowdsupply.bsky.social #Teardown2025 talking about mind altering gadgets 🤖🧠💖 www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por... #portland #hardware #diy #pdx

It's time for Kingpin! @joegrand.bsky.social is talking now about his Life of Badges! #teardown2025 #portland #pdx #badgelife

Hardware Happy Hour Portland (Teardown 2025 edition) is this Thursday, June 19th, 06:30 PM - 11:00 PM, at McMenamins on Broadway with @crowdsupply.bsky.social and @helenleigh.bsky.social www.crowdsupply.com/events/2025/... #portland #pdx #hardware #hardwarehacking #teardown2025

We're heading to an educator conference at the end of the month, hoping to teach some STEM teachers to solder at our booth. After being inspired by what other's have done with @oshpark.bsky.social's after dark, I threw together the design for a sick new soldering badge with twinkling LED stars.

You know what's cool about a seeable conference badge... You can assemble it during the talks! ❤️❤️ @oshwassociation.bsky.social

Catch all #OHS2025 talks on the livestream link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ais...

Check in was a breeze thanks to our volunteers and our first round of talks were excellent! The tables space is packed full of incredibly cool projects and we're so excited to keep the good times going!