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We’re very excited for the PDX Maker Week on September 10th to 17th in Portland!
Please join us at our OSH Park headquarters for an open house on:
From Downtown Portland:
From Portland International Airport (PDX):
From Downtown Portland:
From Portland International Airport (PDX):
The Teensy 3 and Teensy LC have several pins that can be used as capacitive touch inputs. I designed this board in KiCad to experiment with cap touch buttons:
I used the CAPSENSE_CIRCLE component and footprint from the Wickerlib KiCad library to create the cap touch buttons:
We’re very excited for the Open Hardware Summit 2016 on Friday, October 7th, here in our hometown of Portland!
Please join us at our OSH Park headquarters on OHS 2016 eve. We’d love it if you #BringAHack, but either way, all are welcome for a grand time!
Refreshments will be served
From Crystal Ballroom (Downtown Portland):
From Portland International Airport (PDX):
From Crystal Ballroom (Downtown Portland):
From Portland International Airport (PDX):
The 2016 Hackaday SuperConference is coming. Now is the time to submit your proposal for a talk or a workshop at the world’s greatest conference about hardware creation. The SuperCon is an unparalleled opportunity to present on a deeply technical level where you can be certain everyone in the audience is following. All of those…
The 2016 Hackaday SuperConference is coming. Now is the time to submit your proposal for a talk or a workshop at the world’s greatest conference about hardware creation. The SuperCon is an unparalleled opportunity to present on a deeply technical level where you can be certain everyone in the audience is following. All of those…
CBC reports that Canada Post workers will be locked out as of Friday, July 8th, putting a halt to deliveries.
Our Free Shipping option is delivered by Canada Post, so all Free Shipping to Canada will be held up until the lockout is over, at which point it’ll be delivered.
Continuing with our goal to simplify Open Source Hardware fabrication, we’re very pleased announce that we’re finally able to accept direct uploads of KiCad PCB design files on OSH Park!
For designers, this means that you can place an order without going through the plot process, worrying about drill formats, or fiddling with CAM settings.
For the community, this means ordering files designed with KiCad got a lot easier. Now there’s no need to install KiCad to generate gerber files, or deal with a zip full of gerbers that might not be set up for us.
For users who still prefer to generate gerbers, we have good news for you too. We’ve improved our file detection, so there’s no need to rename the files on our behalf. Check out our Kicad docs for more information on generating gerbers if you run into trouble.
We’d also like to extend a word of gratitude to the developers for their continued efforts to improve KiCad. In the last few months, they’ve added too many features to count, including the scripting architecture. A special shoutout to Adam Wolf of Wayne and Layne in particular, for his support of these feautures!
Want to learn Kicad? Checkout Getting to Blinky with Kicad 4.0
Alicia Gibb, executive director of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), announced today that the month of October this year will be Open Source Hardware Month:
Open Source Hardware Month will host three significant events in an effort to bring greater clarity to the open source hardware definition, invite more people to contribute to the movement, and provide education about how to publish a project or product as open source hardware. These events include the Open Hardware Summit, an open source hardware certification, and a series of documentation days.
The Open Hardware Summit in Portland, Oregon will be on October 7, 2016. Tickets are for sale, and there is still time to be a speaker or a sponsor.
OSHWA will launch the Open Source Hardware certification at the Summit:
Users will self-certify compliance in order to use the certification logos. Self-certification will give creators the right to use the OSHWA open source hardware certification logo. As part of the self-certification process, creators will agree to subject themselves to penalties for non-compliance. OSHWA will be responsible for enforcing those penalties.
Star Simpson is designing PCBs with OSH Park for Forrest M. Mims III classic circuits! A crowd-funding campaign for Circuit Classics will be coming to Crowd Supply soon:
Each circuit depicts an original, traced and hand-drawn schematic created by Forrest Mims for his iconic books “Getting Started in Electronics”, and the “Engineers’ Notebook” series. Every board includes a description of how it works, in Mims’ handwriting, on the reverse side.
Alongside the schematic is the circuit itself. Paired with the components you need to build up timeless examples such as the Dual-LED Flasher, the Stepped Tone Generator, and the Bargraph Voltage Indicator, each board is carefully designed for easy assembly recreating the wonder of learning how electronics work— whether it’s your first soldering project or your fifty-thousandth.
The Bar Graph Voltage Indicator
People are asking me what font that is. It’s no font: that’s Mims’ handwriting. Exactly as in his books.
That’s right, Star. Circuits from the original “Engineer’s Notebook” were printed and illustrated using India ink on Mylar.
We leave you with this sage advice:
-Star Simpson
OSH Park 
