In today’s market, going from an idea to patented product is a slow, expensive and often unsustainable process. Simultaneously, we continue to rely on fragile and rigid supply chains that can break at any time.

The global pandemic highlighted the urgency of these issues. As we’re waiting for ships to dock, businesses are in a bidding-war for supplies. And whilst we wait for patent lawyers, we’re not moving significantly closer to solving our planetary and socioeconomic challenges.

If hardware manufacturers want to be part of the solution, we need to fundamentally change how we develop and distribute products.Open Source: A promising alternative

By opening up the design process to a community of developers and end-users, companies can gain quick access to innovation, prototyping and product testing.

OPEN!NEXT brings together SMEs and makerspaces across Europe to develop new products based on open-source principles. In close contact with local designers and communities, we help companies go from 0 to prototype and commercial roadmap with the power of open source.

OPEN!NEXT consists of 19 project partners from seven European countries. Our expertise ranges from business and data management, to design processes, manufacturing and communication.

Die Idee der European Open Hardware Alliance ist eine Plattform zum Austausch und zur Kooperation von Firmen, NGOs, Makerspaces und Forschungsinstitutionen zu schaffen um Open Hardware in Europa nachhaltig zu verankern.

TOP Lab reframes the laboratory as a shared space – informal and inviting rather than sterile and exclusive. Through audience participation, the intention is to demystify biology and radically lower the barrier to participation in modern bioscience, allowing anyone to innovate and explore. Using borrowed, recycled and home-built equipment, we recreate a typical do-it- yourself biology (DIY bio) lab and bring biology to the public. This environment also encourages a thoughtful examination and discussion of the implications and ethical questions surrounding cutting-edge bio-based technologies.

We launched a crowdfunding campaign on the 4th of November 2017 with the goal of providing our lab with equipment used in a biology laboratory. Now with this equipment, our community can develop their own ideas. People can complete their projects using our resources or develop their experimental research. The success of this campaign was important for the ambition of TOP Lab: to become an open space that shares resources and overcomes barriers created by the lack of readily accessible professional facilities, equipment, and knowledge. The scientific community of the future depends on such spaces and communities to initiate a new era of science; to provide fresh opportunities and new solutions for the problems facing our planet.

TOP Lab started to host mushroom cultivation and mycofabrication courses from Spring 2019 within “Mind the Fungi”, a Citizen Science project of Art Laboratory Berlin and the TU Berlin Institute for Biotechnology. The Mind the Fungi project is focused on studying the characteristics of mushrooms of the Berlin area.

Kommt ins mobile Podcast-Studio mit Jenz Steiner!

This talk is about how the open source community can make use of the 4Ds product development process to turn their project into a marketable product with PSLab as an example.

Nitrokey is an open-source USB key used to enable the secure encryption and signing of data. The secret keys are always stored inside the Nitrokey which protects against malware (such as computer viruses) and attackers. A user-chosen PIN and a tamper-proof smart card protect the Nitrokey in case of loss and theft. The hardware and software of Nitrokey are open-source. The free software and open hardware enables independent parties to verify the security of the device. Nitrokey is supported on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD.

Die Werkstatt im CityLAB ist das Angebot der Technologiestiftung Berlin an die Stadtbürger:innen, an beispielhaften Bildungsprojekten zusammenzuarbeiten und die Inhalte in Form von Veranstaltungen, frei lizenzierten Bildungsmaterialien und Implementierung im Stadtraum nach außen zu tragen. Der Fokus liegt auf dem „Internet der Dinge“ (IoT) – mit Coding und Hardware ganz „hands on“ Stadtzukunft mitzugestalten.

Verbraucher und Unternehmen sollen in der EU besser vor Produkten mit unzureichenden IT-Sicherheitsfunktionen geschützt werden. Es geht darum, Sicherheit nun auch "im privaten Umfeld, in unseren Unternehmen und bei allen vernetzten Produkten" zu gewährleisten. Mit dem Cyber Resilience Act will die Brüsseler Regierungsinstitution grundlegende Anforderungen an die Gestaltung, Entwicklung und Herstellung von Produkten "mit digitalen Elementen" wie Hard- und Software einführen. Was bedeutet das für Open Source Hardware?

Wir fördern reparierbare, nachvollziehbare und reproduzierbare Hardware, die im öffentlichen Interesse steht. Auf dieser Website findest du Beispiele, Neuigkeiten aus der Open-Hardware-Szene und Informationen zu unseren Ausschreibungen.

Der Prototype Fund Hardware ist Teil des Forschungsprojektes MoFab, das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland und drei weiteren Partnern betreut sowie durch die WIR!-Initiative des BMBF finanziert wird. Ein Ziel des Projektes ist es, Rahmenbedingungen für ein Fundingprogramm zu entwickeln, welches Open Hardware langfristig fördert. Außerdem möchten wir Open Hardware insgesamt mehr Sichtbarkeit geben und die Community in diesem Bereich zusammenbringen.

Einzelpersonen und kleine (interdisziplinäre) Teams können von uns finanzielle und ideelle Unterstützung für die Erprobung von Ideen und Entwicklung von Open-Source-Hardware erhalten.

The electronics industry generates a huge amount of negative externalities, from the mines to the products' end-of-life. Many studies showed that most of these impacts occur during the product birth and death. Thus the first priority is to reduce the number of electronic devices made and sold. However, this is not viable for companies that rely solely on the sale of these devices. There is therefore a need for another business model: Product as as Service (PaaS). We will explore under which conditions can this new way of doing business be really sustainable (spoiler: by being circular!) and if electronic could not also become - after all - a common good

In the context of the climate crisis and the accompanying social change, the project explores the relationship between Berlin and the Spree, the urban space, the citizens and the body of water. How can the river be given its own "political" voice and what can help to create more awareness about the Spree and the influence of humans? With the help of the buoy developed in the project, the water body draws attention to pollution. Digital tools and media such as measuring devices and app record the actual state of the river and communicate this to citizens* in an accessible way. Exciting historical and current contributions around the topic are also communicated. In the hot summer months, the buoy also pumps oxygen into the river and supplies it to the Spree and its creatures. The planet-centric approach provides a holistic and "green" solution to the various problems and ensures a healthier balance between the stakeholders involved.

Was bringt Open Hardware in der Lehre?

Wir entwickeln ein föderierbares Verwaltungssystem für FabLabs, Makerspaces und Hackerspaces. Mit FabAccess soll der Zugriff auf Maschinen verwaltet werden, um so Unfälle zu vermeiden.

FabAccess besitzt dabei drei Hauptfunktionalitäten:

• Maschinenverwaltung
• Berechtigungssystem
• Nutzerverwaltung

FabAccess ist in eine Client-Server Struktur aufgeteilt. Unsere Server Anwendung hat den Codenamen Diflouroborane(BFFH) und ist in Rust geschrieben. Unsere Client Anwendung hat den Codenamen Borepin und ist in C# mit Xamarin geschrieben.

Zur Kommunikation zwischen den Anwendungen verwenden wir Cap’n Proto.

Die Anforderungen für FabAccess wurden mit Mitgliedern des Verbands offener Werkstätten und mit Betreibern von FabLabs an Hochschulen entwickelt.

When writing units tests for software interfacing with external hardware, we need to think carefully about the boundaries between the software and the hardware. How can we write good tests that let us be confident in the driver software, even if the hardware is not actually present? I present some lessons learned from writing drivers for the Pocket Science Lab.

A revolutionary design of the prosthetic/robotic hand fingers makes them compact, humanoid shape, and tough. As it is free from gears and weak points where it can provide a high ratio of size to strength.

In this talk you learn about our story how we built open source Raspberry Pi tablets and survive the chipset shortage — a story about project CutiePi.

Open Toolchain Foundation - Every design process consists of a specific software toolchain. In the future all tools are intercompatible and have respective open formats. This will become the standard in engineering and it needs and open source ecosystem for a pioneering foundation.

Learn more about Glowing Kitty - our LED kitty project. A personal story on how LEDs got me excited about industrial design, what role open source hardware plays in that, and how we can get more people excited about learning industrial design, engineering, and product design.

Mifactori ist ein Designstudio, dass Open Design-Produkte, Methoden, Bildung und Kampagnen für die Kreislaufwirtschaft entwickelt.

In dem Lightning Talk teile ich ein paar Fun Facts über das FabLab in der Berliner Hochschule für Technik, zusammengefasst "HowTo build an official unofficial fablab in your university".

You and I, You and Me explores the possibilities of communication through electricity. It proposes that electricity could help to reveal the imperceptible connections between different actors within the environment. How far could electricity help in understanding others? Is there a possibility to alter human senses by electric impulses? The participatory event invites the audience to imagine the future and to experience the environment by wearing jewelry, shoes, and headwear.

Developing VLC we come across challenges when we deal with hardware their firmware and drivers. An interesting area for us is open multimedia acceleration hardware.

In this talk I will share my experience about prototyping for communities and which tools work.

Das FabLab (Fabrication Laboratory) Leipzig ist ein Ort für Wissens- und Technologietransfer und bietet Beteiligungsangebote und interdisziplinären Dialog für alle interessierten Bürger:innen an.

Ein Wissenschaftsladen, eine offene Werkstatt und ein JugendLab bilden die Infrastruktur im Erdgeschoss der Hildegardstraße 49/51 im Leipziger Osten.

In Zusammenarbeit mit Partner:innen soll hier ein Netzwerk für eine Kultur des kollaborativen Arbeitens entstehen. Der Wissenstransfer wird durch Workshops, Vorträge und weitere Formate gefördert werden. Neben einer stärkeren Wahrnehmung von Wissenschaft in der Gesellschaft, sollen gleichzeitig auch für die Wissenschaft neue Wege der Forschung in Zusammenarbeit mit Zivilgesellschaft geschaffen werden. Dabei werden anwendungsorientierte Projekte im Bereich Citizen Science (Bürger:innenforschung) eine zentrale Rolle spielen.

Im FabLab Leipzig entsteht durch Zusammenarbeit mit wissenschaftlichen Instituten und unseren Nutzer:innen eine niedrigschwellige Kommunikationsplattform, die Innovationstransfer ermöglich.

mAkE is a trans-disciplinary approach to connect European and African Digital Innovation Hubs, EU funded through the Horizon2020 programme. The project is creating a network of maker networks to maximise the potential of open hardware for digital innovation, skill building and job creation. It connects spaces in Africa and Europe that have embraced a new paradigm of production, with innovators that create not just consume and which support networks of emerging entrepreneurs whose ideas will reach every place on this planet.

8:50 Meet at Kurfürstendamm at Memorial Church
9:00 Learn about the area, Zoo station, and the old West Berlin centre. Then take a picture in front of Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and head over to bus stop of bus 100
9:15 Take the 100 Bus to Brandenburger Tor. On the bus see:

• Ku’damm, KaDeWe, Urania, Postdamer Platz
• See Conservative Party headquarter (CDU)
• Nordische Botschaften - including Swedish Embassy!
• Großer Stern/Siegessäule
• Schloss Bellevue (Seat of the German President)
• Haus der Kulturen der Welt
• Platz der Republik/Kanzleramt
• Reichstag/Bundestag

This session brings together developers and practitioners of the Pocket Science Lab to exchange their ideas and knowledge about the current state of the PSLab project and look at experiments that can be conducted with the device.

Since the beginning of the PSLab project, we have been rethinking its stack, architecture and components multiple times. The desktop app has shifted from Python and Qt to Electron, the Python library has been rewritten, and the firmware is being reworked these days. During this process, complexity has grown and shrunk: While the Python library is now easier to use and work on, the desktop applications needs a bridge to talk to it, going through various channels and requiring a lot of knowledge to set up. At the same time, new opportunities and technologies are developing, of which this talk discusses two possible integrations we are planning to make the PSLab desktop app more portable and easier to use again: Based on previous work of an initial driver for PSLab in the Sigrok project, we can simplify the strong coupling with the Python library and use a native, direct interface instead, and thanks to WebAssembly, we can even put the existing user interface as it is on the web, so that it works without explicit installation.

Since Edison invented the phonograph in 1877 the relationship of sound and its storage medium inspired countless great minds! In our workshop we plan to co-design an adapter for turntables and other rotating devices that transforms drawings into sound. We will be using the PSLab (https://pslab.io/) as interface to the computer, KiCAD (https://www.kicad.org/) for the PCB, and Tidal Cycles (https://tidalcycles.org/) for sound generation.

Etwa jede 6. Person verfügt über Höreinschränkungen, das sind laut WHO weltweit etwa 1.5 Milliarden Menschen mit Hörverlust. Nur 3 bis 15% der Menschen weltweit, die von Hörunterstützungen profitieren könnten, nutzen sie. Fast die Hälfte der Hörgeräte werden nach einer ersten Anpassung zurück gegeben. The Open Hearing Project will den Zugang zu Hörunterstützungen niedrigschwellig gestalten und Klangverstärkung nach persönlichen Bedürfnissen adaptierbar machen. Hierfür entwickeln wir zugängliche Hardware und Open Source Software. Das Projekt baut auf der liketohear-Box aus dem Projekt "Hear How You Like To Hear" auf, das auf als Open-Source-Lösung zur Verfügung steht. Wir suchen noch Untersützung für das Projekt.

Mushrooms are used to produce food, construction materials, furniture, textiles, packaging materials, dyeing pigments, chemicals, artworks and medicinal substances.

The variety in use cases makes mycology a field of studies with the potential of proposing extraordinary ideas, and which will eventually disrupt the agro-industrial processes and deeply affect our lives.

Alessandro Volpato, biologist and mycofabrication trainer, will explain how we can take advantage of mushrooms to grow biomaterials and much more.