The call for submissions to the Open Hardware Summit is now open! We’re looking for your best ideas and your brightest proposals. This year’s Open Hardware Summit will be back in the States in Philadelphia, PA on September 19, 2015. Now in its sixth year, OHS brings together an inquisitive and active community of open…
Toni Klopfenstein is a Sparkfun employee with a passion for open source hardware. In 2014 she joined the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) that we met in Rome during the Innovation Week held inside the European Maker faire. Toni is a passionate girl like many our follower, if you never considered to join OSHWA and…
Alicia Gibb, founder of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), had created also an astounding product, funding now on Kickstarter. I had a great passion for LEGO, thanks to my imagination I could live true adventures with my creations… but one thing was missing to bring them to real life: the light! Now, with Alicia’s…
Just one month after the Open Hardware Summit in Rome, all the videos are now available for you to see. Our cherrypicks suggestions goes to: Welcome by Addie Wagenknecht and Opening Remarks by David Cuartielles Eric Pan – Design From Manufacture Adrian Bowyer – Giving Manufacturing a New Life All Open Hardware Summit 2014 videos…
Recently announced, this book by Alicia Gibb aims at giving you a more clear idea of what does it mean to create an open source hardware company, product or project. It’s worth reading for those who are motivated to embark professionally in OSHW, it will be a precious and comprehensive guide: This is the first…
Just few days ago, Open Source Hardware Association nominated three new Board Members: Thank you to our members who voted for OSHWA’s new board members! Your vote is a major contribution as we need to reach quorum (at least 10% of our members) to make anything official in OSHWA. This year, we filled 3 board member…
It’s already several years that we talk about open source software, as a winning approach. By now, even the most conservative CTO, or the slowest public organizations agreed to give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s: open source software is generally more mature and malleable, it can be tweaked and adapted more easily, it keeps…
Good news as internet giant PayPal nominated Danese Cooper, long time Open Source Hardware advocate as Head of Open Source: PayPal has hired programmer, computer scientist, and open source champion Danese Cooper as its first head of open source. The eBay unit is increasingly turning to open source as it revamps its technology platform, recently…
Open Source Hardware Association (www.oshwa.org) recently released a complete writeup of the current guidelines and overall situation related to the legal discussion around open hardware IPR, patentability, open licenses and more. It’s just a starting point – and US centric – but it may be interesting for Open Hardware and Electronics creators to read! This…
From the OSHWA Blog: New board members are: Gabriella Levin, David Mellis, Star Simpson, Jeffery Warren, and Emile Petrone. Click here to see the data. Thank you to all who participated in nominations Welcome New OSHWA Board Members! For those non familiar with the new nominees: Gabriella Levin now working with Protei David Mellis MIT fellow…
OSHWA is looking for 5 new faces to join the board of directors for the Open Source Hardware Association. Please fill out this form to become a nominee or forward the link to the person you wish to nominate for them to fill out. The purpose of this form will be to tell voting members a…
It’s just few months that I’m strongly involved in the open source hardware movement and, despite I still not have a clear idea of how this community is composed. I’ve got some impressions, especially by talking with lots of fabbers and makers, one of them is, luckily, my brother in law that built a CNC milling machine…
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