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/...

Open Hardware Month (OHM): October 1 certified board highlights @oshwassociation.bsky.social blog.adafruit.com/2025/10/01/o...

If you want this poster to remind you to slow down you can get it by following me and @cyborggarbage.bsky.social October 6 on the Goshwassociation 12 hour Livestream! Any new members or donations of any size will get you a cool slow sloth riso poster! Woohoo! 💾⚙️🦥

The work I do at @oshwassociation.bsky.social has meant a lot to me helping people re-imagine how we engage with technology. For me, salvaging, repairing, sharing, co-creating are all part of rethinking technology. Working with open source communities that embrace the values is amazing!

Ive spent so much time working with tech people doing tech things on tech deadlines. In the past few years my practice has turned to analog tools (print making, zines, drawing) in my own personal protest. 1/3

Open Hardware Month is just one week away 🤯 The easiest way to participate in Open Hardware Month is certifying your work! If you certify in October you get the special pumpkin spice sticker for helping grow the database for OHM :)

I got complimented on my @oshwassociation.bsky.social t-shirt today 😊

It's almost October which means it's almost Open Hardware Month! Mark your calendars and get excited because there's going to be really amazing speakers and perhaps even some sloths during our 12hr membership livestream! How are you celebrating Open Hardware Month? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0e...

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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...

This Thursday at 1pm EST the monthly livestream runs with guests Concretedog talking about his Magnet PCB Clamps, Mark Salazar with his DIY Suturing Board and William Kennedy with his Contactless Bicycle Dynamo and Light! Tune in at www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIyE...

Check out this cool funding opportunity for folks based in the Bay Area California! Aimed at folks with a new tech related business that focuses on closing gaps of access. www.kaporcapital.com/pitch

Our Healthware Ecosystem survey is still hungry for submissions! It will only be satiated by your thoughts and feedback. Pretty lucky for us. forms.gle/dsrRtna8xF17...

Our resource page isn't new but these infographics are! Check out OSHWA's resource page at Oshwa.org/resources/

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...

I picked up a civil defense geiger counter kit from the Alameda Antiques market for $100. What's cool about it is that it is vintage @oshwassociation.bsky.social hardware. Every piece includes a BOM, schematic, and board design in the manual.

Our moms keep asking us what we do for work. We thought we'd make some content for Sunday dinner!

For the Seattlers in the crowd! Great way to find out more about what SEEK commons is up to and maybe get involved seekcommons.org

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...

Are you part of the Healthware community? We want your feedback! Fill out our Open Healthware Ecosystem survey. forms.gle/hE8Q7uBAyPbV...

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...

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...

Going live in ten!

TOMORROW we rock the livestream with @xjasminelu.bsky.social , Silard Gal and Chris Dirks who will be telling us all about their extremely cool recently certified projects! Going live at 1pm EST on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJuA...

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...

The #OpenHealthwareConference was so cool!!! Thank you to everyone who joined us in New York and virtually. It was great to learn, eat, talk, and share the virtual world with you all. Can't wait until next year!

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...

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...

Check out this rad overview of bleeptrack’s OHS2025 experience! So rad to have such cool folks join us this year :)

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...

It's time for another certification round up! Up now on Hackster.io and Make: you can check out Jasmine Lu's Physarum Watch, Silard Gal's VESPA ESP and Chris Dirks's Auckland Live Train Map! makezine.com/article/tech...

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?...

Looking forward to sharing our approach and some of our open hardware projects at the @aapthq.bsky.social Summer Meeting in DC! @oshwassociation.bsky.social #harrislab hardware projects: sites.brown.edu/harrislab/ha...

Did you catch the Show & Tell Monthly in May where Magne Lauritzen told us all about the Mathpad? It’s officially available to back on @crowdsupply.bsky.social ! www.crowdsupply.com/summa-cogni/...

Our final talk for the day has Vivek Ananda and Randall Manning talking about Amptouch: adaptable listening prosthetics for sensory loss

Anthony Di Franco is taking us on a tour of Healthware Business Model Origins, Consequences and Open Source Prospects

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

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

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

Now Vittorio Lumare is telling us all about Rebelia - A hand for Humans and Robots!

Lucia Tonion is breaking down the work around Angelo: amplifies emotions, an open source hearing device

We're back from lunch and hearing from Aisen Caro Chacin's work on Medical Prototyping at the Bedside: Redefining Medical Innovation Through Open Healthware and In-Hospital Prototyping

We've got Enrico Bassi speaking on Beyond medical devices - What Communities have done around the World like a documentation streamlining tool

Daniel Lam and George Fakes are tackling Refining 3D Printed Tungsten Shielding: A Collaborative Approach to Clinical Customization

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

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

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

Starting Day 2 with Mike Kang on What impact do we seek, and for whom? Proposing a new framing for our collective work.