Open Source Hardware (OSH)

The OSH programme will include presentations & workshop on recent open source hardware projects such as the OHANDA initiative on sharing open source hardware, the Fritzing initiative for documenting and manufacturing pcb’s for Arduino board, and some OSH products already on the process to be manufactured like Mesh-Potato, meshing wireless access point project for low-infra areas.

Jürgen Neumann, freifunk.net
Camp Pixelache
Friday 26th, Kerava Art Museum

Open Hardware is “en vogue”. More and more developers and even companies are starting to shift towards open source hardware, even though copy left licenses can only be used for the design artefacts, but not yet be applied to the devices themselves. Also the meaning of open hardware is not completely defined, yet. I want to introduce some of these projects and discuss the differences between “hacker friendly”, “open hardware” and “open cores/chips”.
>> www.freifunk.net
>> www.villagetelco.org

Fritzing workshop, André Knörig
Kiasma Theatre Lobby
Saturday 27th, 13:00 – 16:00

In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to use Fritzing to advance their electronic prototyping skills. Learn how you can document and collaborate on your project, how to create custom parts, and how to turn your breadboard circuit into a proper Arduino shield or other type of PCB.

Participants are requested to bring their own laptops (latest softwares from www.fritzing.org & www.arduino.cc installed if possible). Arduino boards and bits to play with can be borrowed or bought on location but please do bring your own projects & bits for experimentation.

The workshop is accompanied by Mikko Sivulainen (www.paeae.com) & Tuomo Tammenpää (www.misusage.org / www.yatta.fi) for assisting in Arduino & sensors related topics. No registration. We have 10 seats so be early. Some room to stand around for following in the backround. More info from tuomo ( at ) yatta.fi.

Fritzing.org
Fritzing is an open-source initiative to enable designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product. We are creating this software in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, developing a tool that allows users to document their Arduino and other electronic-based prototypes, share them, learn from each other, and join the digital fabrication revolution by turning them into professional printed circuit boards.
>> www.fritzing.org

OHANDA round-table, Jürgen Neumann, Tuomo Tammenpää, André Knörig
Goethe institut (to be confirmed)
Saturday 27th, 17:30 – 19:00 (to be confirmed)

OHANDA (Open Hardware and Design Alliance) is an initiative to foster sustainable sharing of open source hardware. It was started at the GOSH! Grounding Open Source Hardware summit at the Banff Centre in July 2009, and one of the first goals of the project is to build a repository for open hardware design which includes a certification model and a registration service.

Join us for round-table discussion on developing the Ohanda. The process is open.
>> www.gosh2009.ca
>> www.ohanda.org