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
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…
The People, Talks, and Swag of Open Hardware Summit
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
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…
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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
Certification For Open Source Hardware Announced
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 […]
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Portland Science Hack Day begins tonight
Portland Science Hack Day at XOXO Outpost kicks off tonight after the Open Hardware Summit! Opening Lightning Talks start at 7:15 pm:
Here are my slides on Open Source Hardware and Science [PDF]:
Slides are also shared on SlideShare
Hackaday in Portland this Week for Open Hardware Summit
We’ve been trying fit in a tour of the Pacific Northwest for a couple of years now. This week is a perfect excuse. Hackaday is proud to sponsor the Open Hardware Summit which will be held in Portland this Friday! Hackaday believes in the free and open sharing of information and ideas. Open Hardware has…
via Hackaday in Portland this Week for Open Hardware Summit — Hackaday
Pre-Summit #BringAHack at OSH Park
Please join us on Open Hardware Summit eve for a delightful mix of #BringAHack and open house!
When: Thursday, October 6th. 6 PM to Midnight.
Where: 311 B Ave, Lake Oswego, OR 97034
Refreshments will be served. No problem if you won’t be able to bring a “hack”. There will still be plenty of interesting things to experience!
Uber From Crystal Ballroom (Downtown Portland):
Public Transit From Crystal Ballroom (Downtown Portland):

OSH Park open house tomorrow!
PDX Maker Week has been amazing!
Please join us at our OSH Park headquarters for an open house on:
Friday, September 16th
6pm-12am
OSH Park
311 B Ave, Suite B
Lake Oswego, OR 97034
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OSH Park is hiring! Customer support engineer

OSH Park is looking for a part-time Customer Support Engineer to help our customers navigate our website, order from our service, and learn about designing circuit boards for manufacturing. We’re a small company and we offer high quality manufacturing in the USA by combining many small printed circuit board designs onto batch panels.

We see hundreds of orders a week so this is a great opportunity to see how engineering design meets the cold hard reality of manufacturing. We also offer paid time to work on your own Open Hardware projects.
Our office is in Oregon but our support team works from home so you should expect to work independently, manage your own work schedule, use Slack to keep in touch, and join us for biweekly remote meetings using Google Hangouts.

You must be:
- Familiar with the Linux command line and able to remotely access a Linux server.
- Fluent in English, which means that you have solid spelling and grammar skills without relying on a spell check. We only provide customer service by email, so we need someone with excellent reading comprehension and attention to detail.
- Curious about and/or experienced with the Maker community, printed circuit boards, and hardware design.
- Able to be a teacher and mentor, answering the same repetitive questions with compassion and empathy each time, since many of our customers are hobbyists or students who are new to designing hardware and we’re here to support them.
- Willing to install EAGLE and KiCad, two common CAD tools, and get comfortable using them.
We would love you to have an engineering or manufacturing background, have designed circuit boards yourself, or have experience in customer service, but none of those are necessary. We’re happy to teach you if you’re willing to learn.
If this sounds like you, then please email us at [email protected]
Note: U.S. Residents only

















