The 5th Annual Open Hardware Summit was held in Rome, Italy in 2014. It was organized by the Open Source Hardware Association to discuss the growing open hardware movement. Key topics included the Ada Lovelace Fellowship for women in open technology, workshops on open hardware manufacturing and licensing, and presentations from leaders in the field such as Adrian Bowyer of RepRap and Eric Pan of Seeed Studio. The Summit aimed to advance open sharing of hardware knowledge and collaboration on technology development.
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Open Hardware Summit 2014
1. 5th Annual
Open Hardware Summit 2014
in Roma, Italia!
Recap by Drew Fustini at NERP meeting, Pumping Station: One, 2014-10-27
2010: Queens, NY (NY Hall Sci):
Founded by Alicia Gibb (BugLabs), Ayah Bdeir (littleBits), Ladyada (Limor Fried)
keynote, Gerald Coley, HW Engineer BeagleBoard.org
2011: Queens, NY (NY Hall Sci):
I missed it :(
2012: Manhattan, NY (Eyebeam):
OSHWA founded! Chris Anderson (Wired/DIY Drones), Jo Prusa (RepRap 3D printers),
Bre (post MakerBot going closed source)
2013: Cambridge, MA (MIT):
Wyolum ePaper Conf Badge for everyone! DropBot microfluidics lab automation, Chip
Gracey (Parallax), Parallella multi-core. Slides: http://2013.oshwa.org/schedule/
4. Open Hardware Summit 2014
http://2014.oshwa.org/about/
“annual conference organized
by the Open Source Hardware
Association (OSHWA) and the
world’s first comprehensive
conference on open hardware;
a venue to discuss and draw
attention to the rapidly growing
Open Source Hardware
movement”
5. Open Source Hardware Association
http://www.OSHWA.org
● “aims to be the voice of the open hardware community,
ensuring that technological knowledge is accessible to
everyone, and encouraging the collaborative development of
technology”
● Now a US Federal 501(c) non-profit!
● OSHW definition: http://www.oshwa.org/definition/
6. ● Publish documentation with Open Source license
– CC-BY-SA, GPL, Apache/BSD/MIT, OHL, TAPR, etc
– Non-Commercial (NC) clause is NOT acceptable
●
OSHW Quick Reference Guide:
– http://www.oshwa.org/open-source-quick-reference-guide/
●
Documentation required (for electronics hw):
– Schematics (editable EDA/CAD file format; e.g. KiCad, EAGLE, etc)
– Board Layout (editable file format; e.g. KiCad, EAGLE, Altium)
– Bill of Materials (ideal: all components available in low qty distribution)
●
Poster on May and Must attributes of OSHW:
– PDF: http://www.oshwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/OSHW-May-and-Must.pdf
● OSHW spirit: publish everything that will enable collaborative
development; the goal is not just to check a box on a marketing flyer or add
keywords to a Kickstarter campaign
7. OHS 2014 Chairs: http://2014.oshwa.org/about/
● Chair:
Addie Wagenknecht
– co-founder of NORTD R&D Lab
– OSHW laser cutter Lasersaur
● Co-chair:
Simone Circero
– founder of Hopen Think Tank in Rome
– OSWHA International Branches Chair
● Review & Co-Creative Chair:
Nahid Alam
– Co-founder, CEO at Litehouse
– former Sr. Design Engineer at Intel
● Media & Support Chair: Zachary Menegakis
– Kinisi, Open Source Hardware & Software Engineer
● Ticketing & Sponsorship Chair: Aileen Park
8. Ada Lovelace Fellowship
● Founded in 2013 by Addie Wagenknecht & Alicia Gibbs for OSHWA
● Encourage women in open technology and culture to actively participate
and foster a more diverse community within open source.
● 5 Open Hardware Fellowships which include a $1000 international
travel stipend to OHS 2014
● Conversations with Two Summit Scholarship Recipients:
http://www.oshwa.org/2014/10/17/conversations-with-two-summit-scholarship-recipients/
Sphoorti Joglekar
Member of Technical Staff
Airtight Networks (Pune, India)
Toni Klopfenstein
Quality Assurance Engineer
Sparkfun Electronics (Boulder, CO)
9. Speakers: http://2014.oshwa.org/speakers/
Including...
● Adrian Bowyer
– founder of RepRap Project which innovated Open Source
Hardware Desktop 3-D Printers
● Eric Pan
– Founder and CEO of Seeed Studios
● Gawin Dapper
– CTO of Phonebloks, modular smartphone platform
● Jason Kridner:
– Co-founder BeagleBoard.org & BeagleBone
● Becky Stern:
– Director of Wearable Technology, Adafruit
11. Nadya Peek:
Open so that you can know...
● How it works
● How to fix
● How to build
● How to source parts
● Nadya on “The Amp Hour”:
● http://www.theamphour.com/208-an-interview-with-nadya-peek-ga
● Nadya's course “How to Make Almost Anything”
http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.08/people/nadya/
13. Robo.Op: OSHW platform for
hacking industrial robots (ABB)
http://peopleplusrobots.github.io/robo-o
14. PublicLab.org
● community where you can learn how to investigate
environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques,
we seek to change how people see the world in
environmental, social, and political terms.
17. Open Parts Library saves times, cost
● http://seeed.cc/OPL
● 100 popular parts = ~30% of BOMs
● Share the Supply Chain
● Espruino: 20 days from order to shipping 4,000 bards
19. LinkIt ONE
$79 USD
● http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/LinkIt-ONE-p-2017.html
● All-in-one development board, including ARM7 EJ-STM, GSM, GPRS,
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (EDR/BLE), GPS, microSD Card Slot and Audio out
● Pin-out similar to Arduino UNO, including Digital I/O, Analog Input,
PWM, I2C, SPI, UART, Li-Battery power supply and 4-Pin Grove
Standard Interfaces
● Open source LinkIt Hardware Board Reference Design, including
schematic, layouts, and pin details , enabling developers to create their
own projects using Seeed Studio’s Fusion PCBA Service.
34. Phonebloks
https://phonebloks.com/en
● 1.8 Billion mobile phones
● 5% recycled
● “Phonebloks is an independent organisation
with the purpose of encouraging the
development and production of products that
produce less electronic waste.”
37. Day 2: Workshops
Eric Pan, Seeed Studio
Manufacturing Workshop
http://www.slideshare.net/seeedstudio1/a-fun-dive-into-manufacture-eric-pan-201409-ohs
38. Mission for each table:
Manufacture new hat design under supply chain & time pressure!
● No soldering required... sharpies, felt,
scissors, scavenging, division of labor
and teamwork!
● Winning team got mini quadcopters
from Seeed
● Becky Stern from Adafruit & her
WINNING team rocking manufacturing
workshop. Credit photo:
MakingSociety.com – CC BY 4.0
40. Blogs with OHS 2014 recaps
● Making Society: Major Trends from Open
Hardware Summit 2014 (excellent!)
– http://makingsociety.com/2014/10/open-hardware-summ
● Open Hardware Summit 2014 by Nahid
– http://lilyhack.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/open-hardware
● Getting back to the physical world
– http://postdigitalnode.com/2014/10/12/getting-back-to-th
● OLIMEX: Open Source Hardware Summit
– http://olimex.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/open-source-ha
41. Photos
Open Hardware Summit's
Flickr gallery
https://www.flickr.com/photo
Drew Fustini: Day 1
https://plus.google.com/phot
Drew Fustini: Day 2
https://plus.google.com/phot
44. In the meantime...
● Join OSHWA!
– http://www.oshwa.org/membership/
● Subscribe to the mailing list:
– http://lists.oshwa.org/listinfo/discuss
● Follow on Twitter:
– @OHSummit
● Pre-order Alicia Gibb's new book:
– Building Open Source Hardware:
DIY Manufacturing for Hackers and Makers
December 22, 2014
– http://www.amazon.com/Building-Open-Source-Hardware-M