Open Source Hardware Association

What have I been busy with lately ? I’m working on different projects all related to autonomy in to reinvent healthcare and manufacturing. I have been working on : 1. Breeze Medical : Making myofunctional therapy more accessible, observable and fun for patients and healthcare professionals. More to come there, thanks a lot Madalina L. 2. Maps of Making : Building a new way to think about knowledge sharing in fablabs & makerspace networks and building towards distributed manufacturing, with Nicolas de Barquin 3. FixMyMedtech : Building a community of biomedical engineers to facilitate technical diagnostic, maintenance and procurement of medical devices starting in Africa with Claude Mbiami njanang, Teresa B., Fayçal Kami, Emmanuel Tagne, Olivier WATRIN, Alex Rosen and many more. Beyond that, I invested a lot of time working in Superlab, an industrial makerspace in Brussels to create the place I dream of working in: a vibrant place full of imaginative, practical, competent artists and engineers inventing and building the future we want to see happen. And beyond that I took the time to participate to different conferences with Andrew Lamb and Nathan Parker of the Internet of Production Alliance and Open Source Hardware Association in Berlin and San Francisco ! Hereunder, the Open Healthware Conference with Michael Kang, Avinash Baskaran and Alicia Gibb Seidle

BioClub Tokyo joined an international study on validating open source medical devices, at the invitation of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) where they contributed a local sourcing test. The study centers on the tourniquet designed by Glia Equal Care, creators of the Glia tourniquet a device originally developed for use in Gaza in 2017 by Tarek Loubani, and since deployed in Ukraine and Myanmar. The Open Source Hardware Association is building a documentation-based certification framework around medical and health related devices like it, so that a design proven in one place can be trusted and rebuilt in another.

🤖 3rd Open Source Hardware Conference. This time OSHWA is on board! ❤️🔥 On September 23rd and 24th we're opening the doors to the 3rd Open Source Hardware Conference in Halle (Saale). This year we have very special company: Sid Drmay, Community Manager & Fellowship Chair at the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), will deliver a keynote and join us live via video call. We couldn't be happier about this! 🎉 In 2024, right at the very beginning of OSHOP, Sid invited us to the Open Hardware Summit in Montreal. Even though we couldn’t join, we were so happy about the invite.   Two years later, after being guests at the Open Hardware Summit twice already, we're thrilled that OSHWA is now part of our conference. Sid Drmay’s Keynote: "Open Source & Open Hearts" 💟 Over fourteen years the Open Source Hardware Association has worked to bring together the open source hardware community through events, programming, a united definition, a certification process and a database of projects. The work continues as we expand what it can mean to make hardware, launch our Healthware certification and look towards the community to learn more ways we can support open source hardware. Sid Drmay is an #artist, #maker and #freelance #journalist based in KW, Ontario. They have a deep passion for #zines and run the Hamilton Zine Machine as well as KW Zinetopia. They are one of four studiomates running Dirty Work Studio, a multi-use arts space and small scale risograph printer. They have written for This Magazine, Shameless Magazine, Xtra Magazine and CBC. They currently co-chair the Digital Naturalism Conference and work as the Community Manager & Fellowship Chair for the Open Source Hardware Association. You can find them being annoying online on nearly every platform as @cyborggarbage. Come by, join in, bring yourselves. We're looking forward to seeing you! 📅 When: September 23–24 · Halle (Saale), ℹ️ Get your ticket here: https://lnkd.in/dYje_Nsh 🔎 Have look into the program: https://lnkd.in/dHAyNg-6 Last year's mix of #German and #English content went down really well, and a lot of you told us you'd like to see it again this year. So here's how it will work for this year’s #conference: all keynotes on the main stage will be in English, there's an English track for short talks. Our workshops will be bilingually or language-independent. This way everyone can join in, wherever they're most comfortable. #OSHOP #OpenSourceHardware #OSHWA #HalleSaale #OpenHardware #MakerCommunity #OpenSource #Conference Fraunhofer IWU Fakultät Informatik / Mathematik der HTW Dresden Professur für Werkzeugmaschinenentwicklung und adaptive Steuerungen (LWM), TU Dresden Just Transition Center JTC