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The 2017 Open Hardware Summit is the annual gathering of the OSHWA organization and open hardware community. We are a 501c3 not for profit. Our goal of the Open Hardware Summit and Community is to create an inclusive welcoming environment to empower people in all stages of discovering open source.
Tickets are on sale now through Eventbrite:
The Summit is seeking submissions for talks from individuals and groups working with open hardware and related areas. Topics of interest for the summit include, but are not limited to:
For the 4th year, the Summit is offering up to ten Open Hardware Fellowships to members of the community which includes a $500 travel stipend:
The Ada Lovelace Fellowship was founded in 2013 prior to the annual Open Hardware Summit at MIT by Summit Chair Addie Wagenknecht and OSHWA Director Alicia Gibb as a way to encourage women, LGTBA+ and/or other minorities in open technology and culture to actively participate and foster a more diverse community within open source.
Do you like Open Source? Join Hackaday and Tindie at the largest community-run Open Source conference in North America. We’ll be at the Southern California Linux Expo next week, and we want to see you there. What’s happening at SCALE this year? Amateur radio license exams, a PGP signing party, Bad Voltage Live and The Spazmatics, and…
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KiCad project leader Wayne Stambaugh talked at FOSDEM 2017 about KiCad’s current status and future roadmap:
Wayne’s slides are available on Google Drive:
Tomasz Wlostowski of CERN talks about the SPICE integration that was added to KiCad in 2016:
Maciej Sumiński walked through the KiCad source code:
PDF of the slides is available for download:
The Open Source Hardware Association announced today that the Open Hardware Summit 2017 will be in Denver on October 5th!
We hope to see you all there!
Neven Boyanov has launched a new Tinusaur campaign on IndieGoGo:
Small microcontroller board that could run Arduino and help you learn, teach others and make things
The Tinusaur is powered by the Atmel ATtiny85 microcontroller.
We want to bring the cost down to $3 for the basic “lite” boards
and allow more people to be able to get them.
Our holiday special is here to stay – choose our fast-turn super swift service for only an additional $5/sqin!
2 Layer Super Swift ServiceNeed 2-layer boards in a hurry? Our Super Swift Service has the same quality you know and love, with an even faster turn time of 5 business days.
Pricing
In order to make the Super Swift Service more accessible to makers, hobbyists, and small businesses, we’ve reduced the price of the swift service from a flat fee per design to $10 per square inch, which includes three copies of your design. For the vast majority of orders, this should be a MUCH better deal.
For example, a 2 square inch board would cost $20 and you’d get three copies of your board. This includes our Free Shipping option, although expedited shipping options are available.
Turn Times
Orders are sent to fabrication daily, and will ship within 5 business days days.
You can get a quote, approve a design, and pay for an order at OSH Park.
Super Swift Service is not available for Medium Run or Four Layer orders.
As a special bonus, orders placed before 11AM US/Pacific on Monday will ship by Friday of that week.
90% of the time, orders placed before 11AM US/Pacific will ship in 3 business days, but we only guarantee 5 business day shipping.
Specs
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We would like to let our customers know that all of our boards are manufactured in the United States, and OSH Park will be operating on a normal schedule through Lunar New Year:
There are two periods of time to think about when making your order:
- Fabrication time between when you place your order and when we receive boards from the fab.
- Shipping time between when we ship and when the post office delivers your order to you.
All PCBs ship from Lake Oswego, Oregon, and are fully manufactured in the United States.
thingSoC is an Open Source socket system for IoT development and has just launched a new Crowdy Supply campaign:
Build any IoT or Networked device you can imagine!
The thingSoC Grovey! platform gives you the freedom to choose from hundreds of existing sensors, actuators, and radios to quickly create new electronic systems, in plug together configurations that were not possible before. Easily mix together different CPUs, Radios, and Peripherals, like Servos, Motors, Relays, Sound and Lights, and then program them in your choice of Integrated Development Environments (IDE).
The thingSoC Grovey! series combines access to the Seeedstudio Grove system, and the Mikrobus “Click” system, to give you the widest selection of radios, sensors, and actuators available today.
The thingSoC Grovey Series files are available on GitHub:
KiCad is the premiere open source electronics design automation suite. It’s used by professionals and amateurs alike to design circuits and layout out printed circuit boards. In recent years we’ve seen some incredible features added to KiCad like an improved 3D viewer and push-and-shove routing. This Friday at 10 am PST, join in a Hack…
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