Open Source Hardware month events

October 15, 2016October 15, 2016 fustiniopenhardware, oshw, oshwaLeave a comment

October is Open Source Hardware month! Join with one of these upcoming events:

Documentation Day San Francisco

Date: 10/18/2016 6:30pm
Details: David from IFTTT is away this month. Let’s meetup at the TechShop at the 2nd Floor Conference Room. More details: https://www.meetup.com/urbanagtech/events/234473382/
Venue: Tech Shop
Location: 926 Howard street, San Francisco, CA

Parts & Crafts and Public Lab Documentation Nights

Date: October 5, 12, 19, & 26, 6-8pm
Details: Parts & Crafts — a makerspace for kids and adults — will be working to document all their existing open hardware projects — including the One Lightsaber Per Child project — & invite the public to help, learn more, and use their space to document their own open hardware. Public Lab will be hosting “upgrade your DIY spectrometer” documentation events on the 12th and 19th.
Venue: Parts & Crafts/Somerville Tool Library
Location: 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143

Event: Documentation Day Boulder

Date: 10/22/2016, 1-4pm
Details: Toni Klopfenstein and Alicia Gibb are hosting a Documentation Day at SparkFun Electronics. Get some photography tips and bring the project you want to open source the most!
Venue: SparkFun Electronics
Location: 6333 Dry Creek Parkway, Niwot CO, 80544

Documentation Day NYC

Date: 10/25/2016 5:30-9:00
Details: Michael Weinberg and Joel Murphy will be hosting a Documentation Day in New York. Details: shpws.me/MNb8
Venue: Fat Cat Fab Lab
Location: 224 W. 4th St., 2nd floor

Documentation Day Brazil at the Hardware Liberation Hackathon

Date: 10/29-31/2016
Details: e-hal.org.br/en
Venue: PUC-SP, Campus Conceição
Location:São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Documentation Day Berlin

Date: 10/29-30/2016
Details: Addie Wagenknecht will be hosting a Documentation Day in Berlin. Details to follow.
Venue: TBD
Location: TBD

Open Hardware Summit 2016: afternoon sessions

October 14, 2016October 14, 2016 fustiniOHSummit, ohsummit16, oshw, oshwa, pdx, portland3 Comments

[see previous blog post for morning sessions]

Video recordings of Session 3 and Session 4 of Open Hardware Summit 2016 in Portland:

OSHWA certification

Alicia Gibb and Michael Weinberg

[Session 3: seek to 0 hr 16 min]

Note – the recording is missing these talks:

Steve Hodges: micro:bit Open Source Physical Computing Platform for CS Education
Dan Seal: Rise of Open Hardware in Education
Sakshi Srivastava

Creating an open factory among factories

Eric Pan

[Session 4: starts at the beginning]

Space the Final Frontier of Open Hardware

Aaron Baker and Andrew Greenberg

[Session 4: seek to 0 hr 19 min]

Beyond microchips: infrastructure, norms and feedback for open classical instruments

David Perry

[Session 4: seek to 0 hr 35 min]

Open Source Hardware in our National Parks

Rianne Trujillo

[Session 4: seek to 0 hr 51 min]

Open and Good Enough Manufacturing Solutions

Luka Mustafa

[Session 4: seek to 1 hr 5 min]

Gallery of slides from the above talks:

Related post:

Open Hardware Summit 2016: morning sessions

October 13, 2016October 14, 2016 fustiniohs2016, ohsummit16, openhardware, oshw, oshwa3 Comments

Video recordings of Session 1 and Session 2 of Open Hardware Summit 2016 in Portland:

Programming is Forgetting

Allison Parrish

[seek to 45 min]

“Embedis” dictionary server for embedded systems

Tom Moxon and David Turnbull

[seek to 1 hr 18 min]

OpenMV: From Hack-A-Day Fail of the Week to Success

Kwabena Agyeman

[seek to 1 hr 32 min]

Open vs. Collaborative: Lessons from Linux and Google

Jason Krinder

[seek to 1 hr 49 min]

Caroline Sinders

[seek to 2 hr 38 min]

Free/Libre/Open Source Marketing

Harris Kenny

[Part 1: seek to 2 hr 52 min of Session 1]

[Part 2: start of Session 2]

Open Source Hardware at Intel: Moving the Mountain

Tracey Erway

[seek to 0 hr 7 min]

Designing an ecosystem to drive an open source hardware project

Shigeru Kobayashi and Genta Kondo

[seek to 0 hr 21 min]

Bilal Ghalib

[seek to 0 hr 40 min]

Open Source Hardware Medical Instrumentation

Ashwin Whitchurch

[seek to 0 hr 59 min]

What’s up with My Grandma? Open Hardware and Motor Function

Justyna Ausareny

[seek to 1 hr 23 min] note: the talk is truncated

Gallery of slides from the above talks:

Related post:

Open Hardware Summit 2016: afternoon sessions

SAMD21 giveaway — 0miker0’s Blog

October 12, 2016 fustiniARM, atmel, OLED, SAMD21Leave a comment

What I’d like to give away one SAMD21 logger/sensor board to someone, wherever in the world you are. Why I’m a hardware guy, not a programmer. I’ve had fun designing this project and wrote simple code to verifying everything works. There is enough hardware and sketch space available to create a pretty cool logger project. […]

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Get Hands-On: Workshop Tickets Now Available — Hackaday

October 12, 2016 fustinihackaday, superconfLeave a comment

Get together with awesome hackers and build something cool. That’s the exact description for the workshops of the Hackaday SuperConference. Previously we announced all of the talks and some of the workshop presenters, but starting right now you can reserve your space in these inspiring hands-on sessions. You must have a SuperCon ticket in order to…

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The People, Talks, and Swag of Open Hardware Summit

October 11, 2016 fustinihackaday, ohsummit16, openhardware, oshwa, pdx, portlandLeave a comment

Friday was the 2016 Open Hardware Summit, a yearly gathering of people who believe in the power of open design. The use of the term “summit” rather than “conference” is telling. This gathering brings together a critical mass of people running hardware companies that adhere to the ideal of “open”, but this isn’t at the exclusion…

via The People, Talks, and Swag of Open Hardware Summit — Hackaday

A Completely Open Microcontroller

October 10, 2016October 10, 2016 fustinihackaday, onchip, risc-v, silicon2 Comments

An annotated mRISCV die imageI don’t know about you, but the idea of an Arduino-class microprocessor board which uses completely open silicon is a pretty attractive prospect to us. That’s exactly [onchipUIS]’s stated goal. They’re part of a research group at the Universidad Industrial de Santander and have designed and taped out a Cortex M0…

via A Completely Open Microcontroller — Hackaday

Not only have [onchipUIS] successfully bonded their chip, but they’ve done so using a chip on board process where the die is directly bonded to a PCB. They used OSHPark boards and described the process on Twitter.

@ico_TC Slower gif. Enough to see the bus connection to RAM and a flip-flop. #tech @SSCSociety @ieeecassociety #HappyOctober #MañanaVotoSí pic.twitter.com/9EopcditiQ

— onchip (@onchipUIS) October 1, 2016

Wi-Fi Connected IoT Thing

October 10, 2016October 5, 2016 fustiniAccelerometer, Data Logger, gps, iot, teensy, wifiLeave a comment

Charles McClelland created a Wi-Fi Connected Teensy Data Logger with GPS and Accelerometer:

Wi-Fi Connected IOT Thing

The basic idea is that this board will connect to GPS, obtain a GPS fix and report its location to Ubidots.

Ubidots can then display this information in a number of ways including showing the location and the number of times the sensor had been moved that day

The hardware design files and firmware source code are shared on GitHub:

chipmc/Teensy-Data-Logger/

Certification For Open Source Hardware Announced

October 9, 2016 fustinihackaday, openhardware, oshw, oshwa, portlandLeave a comment

Today at the Open Hardware Summit in Portland, Alicia Gibb and Michael Weinberg of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) launched the Open Source Hardware Certification program. It’s live, and you can certify your own hardware as Open Hardware right now. What Is Open Source Hardware? Open Source Hardware can’t be defined without first discussing […]

via Certification For Open Source Hardware Announced — Hackaday

Scanning Parts Into KiCad — Hackaday

October 9, 2016October 5, 2016 fustinihackaday, kicadLeave a comment

You do not know how to make a PCB unless you can make your own parts. [Jan] knows this, but like everyone else he checked out the usual online sources for a footprint for an SD card socket before making his own. It turns out, this SD card socket bought from an online marketplace was…

via Scanning Parts Into KiCad — Hackaday