Hi Everyone,
I want to take off my ROS hat 
for a second and put on my Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) hat 
for second.
As some of you may know I’ve been on the board of the Open Source Hardware Association for some time now. The OSHWA team is really busy with an exciting new NSF project at the moment so I am stepping up to help with organizing this year’s Open Hardware Summit. I presented a Lightning Talk at ROSCon about this year’s summit and the response was so positive I figured I should also make an announcement on ROS Discourse. I might also be in the process of planning a ROS meetup in Edinburgh. If that’s something you would be interested in helping with please reach out to me directly via DM.
Open Hardware Summit 2025
This year’s Open Hardware Summit will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland on 2025-05-29T23:00:00Z→2025-05-30T23:00:00Z and tickets just went on sale. If you’ve never been to Open Hardware Summit you can get a taste of the event by watching our 2024 Summit Live Stream. Our keynote this year was from Danielle Boyer, a Ojibwe roboticist who is builds open hardware educational robots that teach students their indigenous languages.
OSHWA currently has an open call for proposals for this year’s Open Hardware Summit. If you have an open source hardware robot, or an interesting open hardware project that you would like to share, please consider submitting a talk or workshop proposal! Applications are due by 2024-12-22T08:00:00Z.
While I have your attention…
I want to remind the ROS community that they should consider certifying their open hardware designs! Certification ensures that your project meets the minimum documentation requirements to be considered open source hardware, lists your project on our certification website, and provides you with a slick badge that you can include on your designs.
The OSHWA certification website is a gold mine of close to 3000 open hardware projects that you are free to study and use as part of your robotics project. The certification website currently includes 19 different motor drivers (like this stepper driver and this Grove Motor Driver from TU Delft ), 229 different robots (such as the NASA JPL Rover), and 312 different sensors (like this line sensor, and this pneumatics controller). I recommend you bookmark the certification website for easy reference!