In recent weeks, OSHWA met one of its initial goals: to start certifying open-source hardware. The goal of certification is to clearly identify open-source hardware separate from the mish-mash of other hardware products. The certification allows hardware...

The Internet of Things, beacons and The Physical Web are today’s hot topics. Soon we’ll be surrounded by small intelligent sensor nodes that analyze the environment and offer people more content on their smartphones. 12x funded already...

There is already a huge collection of open source scientific software tools, and now there are even dozens of open source hardware tools for science (if any are missing from the wiki, please click edit and add...

3D printing is being part of our lives and we’re probably getting used to the idea of doing it to innovate and improve our work, and why not, our daily existence. It is always worth to look...

  Open source, released from a OSHWA member, and focused on having the perfect coffee. Boom! It seems a joke, but it is one of the most serious projects I’ve seen so far. From a physics expert,...

Brillian initiative by Alicia Gibb, bringing cakes to life with LED and open source embedded computing! Most cakes I’ve put electronics in have been for friends’ birthdays. I’ve made cakes with LED candles, cakes with motorized candles...

Blinky Buildings v1 Blinky Buildings is a simple kit to teach people how to make derivatives of open source hardware. You are welcome to create a derivative of this kit as long as it abides by the...

Stop and Go Kit v1 This is a soldering kit that you build yourself! The holes on the base of the stop-and-go light are LEGO compatible so you can build this kit into your various brick projects. You are welcome...

Christmas is coming, what better chance to introduce our beloved children to the passion for Making? Here is one of the 3 Lunchbox Electronics projects so cute to have our babies working on them! We are Lunchbox...

  The definition of Open Source Hardware has been around for a while, but without a certification process, the Open Hardware movement has lacked the social proof required of such a movement; there is no official process...

The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) is kicking off the process to create an Open Source Hardware Certification.  In addition to all of the amazing things that will happen at this year’s Open Hardware Summit, our goal...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...