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11 Wonderful Wearable Open Source Projects

LEDs are on everything, and almost everyone you know has at least tried a FitBit or similar device, whereas Google Glass didn't really take off. Despite several years of growth, whether wearable electronics are a fad, or here to keep growing from fun to truly functional is too early to tell. Judge for yourself—read through a few of our favorite wearable projects from 2016. You might even get inspired to start creating...

A Look Inside the 'Blinky Flashy' World of Wearables and Open Hardware

While looking at the this year's All Things Open event schedule, a talk on wearables and open hardware caught my eye: The world of the blinky flashy. Naturally, I dug deeper to learn what it was all about. Though Gina Likins and Jen Krieger of Red Hat would like to leave a few surprises for the lucky folks who attend their talk, they told me they can promise at least the following: ideas about how you can integrate simple circuitry into your outfits to "tron-ify" your wardrobe,
ways to add interactivity to art projects (or science projects! or exhibits!) that turn a spectator into a co-creator...

Hardware Startups: Don't Be Scared, Share!

Mathilde Berchon | EE Times | March 26, 2014

A few days ago, I received an email that was full of mystery. It was short but intriguing. Jonathan, its author, was telling me about a great product he was working on. He needed advice on how to get started and take his prototype to the next stage.

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Help Support The Open Hardware Summit

Emcee Grady | SparkFun Electronics | July 17, 2013

Today, we have a call to action for all makers, hackers, hobbyists and electronics enthusiasts who value the ideology and/or benefits of open source technology – Help Support the Open Hardware Summit! Read More »

Makers are the new industrial revolution

Following up on the recent review of the Maker's Manifesto, I ran across the book Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson. Anderson is a former Editor in Chief of Wired and no stranger to the economic paradoxes of peer-production and open source. He has written about both in previous books The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More and Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Read More »

Open Hardware Summit And MakerBot

John Payne | Robohub | September 30, 2012

The attached video, posted by Make Magazine, addresses what was apparently a subject of much discussion at the 2012 Open Hardware Summit, this past Thursday, which is MakerBot’s decision not to share the design files for its Replicator(TM)2 3D printer. Read More »

Open Source Touch Screens To The Rescue

Casey Hare | EDN Network | April 7, 2014

"...We need a stand-alone electronics box that can connect to our data logging systems, drive the main mechanism motor and measure a few other sensors. We're very worried about the end customer damaging the hardware so we're going to need voltage limits, torque limits and other safety features that change over the mechanism travel…and we need it right away. This was one of my favorite clients talking so I want to give them everything they wanted, but already the project sounded like a mess.

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Open Source's Final Frontier

David Schneider | IEEE.org | October 2, 2012

This past Thursday, I attended the third annual Open Hardware Summit, organized by the Open Source Hardware Association and held at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in Manhattan. While open software is now very much mainstream, open hardware is in a far more primitive state. So hearing from the folks at ground zero of this newfangled way of developing and marketing products was illuminating. Read More »

SparkFun’s Chris Taylor: Community Key To Open-Source Hardware

Suzanne Deffree and Chris Taylor | EDN Network | April 4, 2013

When it comes down to it, engineer and seven-year SparkFun Electronics veteran Chris Taylor believes anything can be open source, to be shared and improved. He recently spoke with EDN about open-source hardware (OSH). Read More »

The FCC And Open Source Hardware

Staff Writer | SparkFun Electronics | October 22, 2012

The FCC has a very important job: keeping the electromagnetic spectrum in order. This is no simple task, and with the number of electronic devices that use this resource increasing everyday, their job is only getting more complicated. Add to that the increasing amount of open source hardware products, and you have yourself a large group of people and businesses to watch over

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The Open Source Hardware and Maker Movements: Reshaping America

Isaac Budmen | Information Space | October 8, 2012

It is by accepting the responsibility for making what we invent here in America that together we will be able to change our current circumstances, reshape our economy and in the process make a better future for ourselves and the next generation. If that is a future you wish to see as much as I do, then I encourage you to learn more about OSHW and the Maker Movement. Read More »

Open Source Hardware Summit 2017

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 5, 2017 - 10:00am - 9:00pm
Location: 
City Hall
1144 Broadway
Denver, CO 80203
United States

Open Source Hardware Summit is a one-day, annual gathering of the OSHWA organization and open hardware community. The summit is designed to inform and empower people in all stages of discovering open source hardware. Some of the summit's topics include right-to-repair laws, open source hardware for developing countries, and open source hardware for cellular access...

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