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The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) aims to foster technological knowledge and encourage research that is accessible, collaborative and respects user freedom.

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 1h
First date idea: we certify our open source projects together for Open Hardware Month certification.oshwa.org
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 1h
Even though this is Not an Open Hardware Month program, it sure feels like a delightful OHM treat for us all to get Alex's excellent insight on skills and techniques this October!!
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At long last, it is October once again! Happy Open Hardware Month everyone! We are so excited to see all the ways the community celebrates OSHW for the next 31 days. Don't forget! It's always a great time to certify if you want a special pumpkin spiced project 🎃 How are you celebrating?
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are officially in nomination period for the 2026-2028 OSHWA Board of Directors. For the next two weeks you can self-nominate to join our board, and help shape the future of OSHWA. Find the nominee form and all information for the election right here: oshwa.org/announcement...
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's time to take slop BACK! We've been doing just fine making our own sloppy work forever & we don't need any help making something messy! Join us during our 24hr livestream Oct 10 - Oct 11, 8am EST - 8am EST and see just how goopy we can get in open source hardware. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SKr...
OSHWA 24hr live stream graphic with goopy green blobs and eyeballs text reads gooooood slop, oct 10, show us your messy, sloppy, goopy prototypes
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Are ya'll getting ready to get Slopped?? We're approaching October and we are getting excited!!!
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tindieofficial.bsky.social @tindieofficial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
October is Open Hardware Month! #TindieBlog #OSHWA #OpenHardware #Livestream @oshwassociation.bsky.social blog.tindie.com/2026/09/octo...
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October is Open Hardware Month!
Tindie and the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) have been friends for a long time! Every year, we like to support them during Open Hardware Month. We encourage our sellers to get their proj…
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Sloppening approaches.... and we've still have lots of spots open if you wanna show off some work! Use this form to let us know you wanna join: forms.gle/DTwdy938NEM4...
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Show and Tell Sign Up
This year for Open Hardware Month OSHWA is looking to run a 24 hour virtual membership drive that will have people and organizations in our community showing off their work and workspaces to show ever...
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Live in 5!
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
TOMORROW at 11am EST is Show & Tell Monthly! This moth we'll be looking at Link to video from Daniel Boston, SensWear: The Linux of Wearables, Built in Finland and Holy Guacamole from Kieran Klukas! Join us for a fun hour of open source hardware: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAw7...
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
After two years of working closely with the Open Healthware community we are proud to launch the Open Healthware Certification process! This certification compliments our base process with a specialized look at source for open hardware health projects. Read more: oshwa.org/announcement...
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As we close out our Pose grant we want to thank our community for all of the hard work and incredible connections made during the last two years. You can now certify your healthware device at Healthware.oshwa.org. Don't forget to stay in touch!
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
October comes fast! This year we are once again running Show & Tell, our 24hr Membership Drive Livestream! Mark your calendars because October 10th 8am to October 11th 8am we will be exploring open source hardware far and wide with a focus on delightfully sloppy, human-made prototypes 👁️ 🫟
graphic with green slimy blobs and eyes in them with text that reads 'we have 24hrs of hand crafted slop for you' and Oct 10th
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 27/08/2026
certifying open hardware as part of the @oshwassociation.bsky.social Open Hardware Certification program just opened a dangerously deep rabbit hole around reusing weather balloon monitoring hardware github.com/Bertruss/Bal...
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GitHub - Bertruss/Balloon-Jockey: Design artifacts of a programming clip to ease functional re-use of GRAW DFM-17 Radiosondes by providing an easily attachable SWD port breakout, providing clear label...
Design artifacts of a programming clip to ease functional re-use of GRAW DFM-17 Radiosondes by providing an easily attachable SWD port breakout, providing clear labeling and allowing one to use Dup...
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Live in 30! See u there?
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Coming up this Thursday at 1pm EST! Show & Tell Monthly livestream :) This month we'll have COSMIIC and Open Water talking about their work in open source health devices! Join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFok...
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Thanks to everyone who attended the Open Healthware Conference! For those that missed out, you can check out the streamed video on our YouTube youtube.com/@OpenSourceHardware
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Check out our recommended practices guide up at oshwa.org!
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Don't forget to check out the full list of best practices guides up at OSHWA.ORG
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our medical and makers workshop was a hit!
A group of people sit and stand among tables inside of a coworking/maker spaceA group of people all post for a group photo. There are around 40 people standing below in a coworking space. There are tables among them full of materials. Stairs behind them to the right that lead to a loft space.
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We were stoked to host our first Medical and Makers workshop. If you missed it, check out the recap of this project below. To keep up with more Open Healthware, check out our new site Healthware.oshwa.org
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Our Open Healthware Certification is out now! Certify your open healthware device at Healthware.oshwa.org As part of the debut, we held and Open Healthware Certification workshop as part of Open Source Healthware week in San Francisco. Check out our wrap up video on how it went.
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thank you so much for joining us in San Francisco for the 2026 Open Healthware Week! We are so happy to have witnessed so many incredible talks, workshop collaborations, projects and conversations among attendees.
the 2026 open healthware conference team table with a 3d printed skull and 3d printed accessibility toolsroom full of people at tables during a workshoperin mckiernan in front of a slide with text "open hardware provides low-cost, portable solutions" and images of various pieces of electronics like an arduino, resistors, and led's and more
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Wrapping up with Avinash Baskaran Ph.D. talking about how the path to an open source healthware ecosystem
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Dan Blizinski is here and bringing folks through the trenches of building community around open medical devices
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Anthony Di Franco coming in with his talk on Open Source solutions for medical supply chain challenges post break!
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
adriana cabrera is up highlighting how collaborative prototyping, interdisciplinary practices, and material experimentation can contribute to new pathways for assistive device development in health and rehabilitation.
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Yadira Sanchez is telling us about her experiences developing a device that measures the fine particles in the smoke in response to the difficulties of rural and Indigenous kitchens in communities across Mexico
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Clive B @clivebagley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is real. Every major infrastructure and service needs a well equipped makerspace.
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Silvestr is taking us through what it looks like to make 3D printing replicable under contraints
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We're joined by Stephen Applebaum taking us throuhg reviving a Class II Electrical Median Nerve Stimulator!
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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Day 2 of our @oshwassociation.bsky.social Open Source Healthware Conference is now live on YouTube. While we're focused on medical devices the event is broadly applicable to all hardware developers. www.youtube.com/live/6y4A6bc...
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Open Healthware Conference 2026 Day 2
YouTube video by The Open Source Hardware Association
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Enrico Bassi has taken the stage to talk how supply chains fail in conflict or crisis, open hardware and hospital makerspaces become real health infrastructure alternatives
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Jen Wilson is joining us virtually to tell us about quality assurance is one of the areas in open source manufacturing !
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Andrew Lamb is up to tell us all about the ways that Open Healthware exists around the world (and somehow so many of these projects happen to be in the room!)
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Daniel Lam and George Fakes presenting on what it means to restore a discontinued clinical tool through open sourcing
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Welcome back to Day 2 of the Open Healthware Conference! You can watch all the talks LIVE on Youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y4A...
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Open Healthware Conference 2026 Day 2
YouTube video by The Open Source Hardware Association
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Welcome to Day 2! We've got Alexandra Bremers, Ph.D. kicking us off with a talk on the results of a global replication study (N=10) of the Glia Tourniquet!
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
That's a wrap on Day 1! Thanks for a great first day of the Open Healthware Conference! See you all online and back at Gray Space tomorrow :)
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Hitting our final talk of Day 1 with Reitwiec Shandilya on his Open pressure project and reclaiming abandoned medical device through open source hardware
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Joel Murphy is presenting ~virtually on the experiencing of making the PulseSensor
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The wonderful Dr. Aisen Chacin presenting on bioreactors for Regenerative Bacterial Cellulose in Surgical Simulation
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Jack Keenan and Alex Barton are giving all the deets on small scale manufacturing Glia tourniquets!
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Erin McKiernan welcoming us back from lunch with her talk on open hardware for biomedical education
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kscottz @kscottz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Check out this $400 commercial braile printer at the @oshwassociation.bsky.social open healthware summit. Commercial printers cost almost $4000 making them unaffordable in the global south. If you're interested in this kind of stuff we're currently running a conference in SF.
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Liz Henry and Olga Prilepova are guiding us through what it means to make a repairable wheelchair
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Doug B is bringing us back post break with a talk on open source MRI
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Bo Morgan is bringing us through assistive technology for blind and low vision people
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Alex Hornstein is up telling us about the treatment gap in epilepsy
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Alessia Romani describing the work behind creating the mNasometer!
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