Welcome in team Thanks to an incoming Fellowship provided by the BUA, we are pleased to announce that Pen-Yuan Hsing will join the Open.Make team for the last six months of the project. Pen background If you have been active in the open science communities (especially GOSH, the Turing way book, or TOPS), his name will be very familiar to you. Pen worked with Robert in the OpenNext EU project, and met Julien in Geneva for the [heroes workshop[(REF)].
This year in Mai (23-24.05.2026), theOpen Hardware Summit (OHS 2026), is organised in Berlin, in the main building of the TU Berlin. The Open.Make project (and our partner project LAUDS Factories) will be presented quite extensively, and a specific 3 ECTS course module at the TU Berlin will bring students in contact with open source hardware topics. LINKS: OHS2026: https://2026.oshwa.org/ TU course “Transdisciplinary Networking Leveraging the Open Hardware Summit 2026” Satellite event “Business model for LAUDS Factories” on Friday We are indeed involved in the organisation as the local partner, proposing a specific course for TU Berlin students (this allowed to grow our teaching portfolio and provide the TU Berlin rooms for free).
During the Hannover Messe 2025, we presented the BUA Mobile Lab, and both the Open.Make and the LAUDS Factories projects. We got the chance to talk with experienced experts from industry including engineers, managers, consultants and business leaders about hardware development practices. Key topics included how they are currently documenting their projects and how open collaboration can be a valuable tool for driving innovative open source hardware development. The most valuable outcome for us was to realize that our academic research is of relevance to the industry and could find application there as a means for open innovation projects and research transfer.
Next week, starting 31.05.2025, we will be one week in Hannover for the Hannover Messe. The Messe is quite famous (the. “world leading industryshow”) in the world of the manufacturing industry. We will represent both the OpenMake project (implementing open and fair hardware) and the LAUDS Factories (local accessible urban digital sustainable factories). We will present our mobile lab, including open source CNC mills developed by our lauds partner Mekanika, and the beta version of our hardware review and publication system.
Here, Julien Colomb presents in a very short post the idea of having and attribution reference and a provenance reference for an hardware/software/dataset object. We present 2 objectives of citing data, one workaround for having it all, what is would mean for hardware paper and end with a question about the validity of this ideas. He is hoping that it may open a discussion on this topic. The two objectives of citing data People have been publishing datasets for decades now, and there is ongoing research on the apparent trade off between providing persistent identifiers to the data and allowing data versions.
Interview: Ultrasound device Luc Jonveaux has been developing open-source ultrasound devices in his spare time for several years. His motivations have been to have fun and give back to the commons. Different devices were created in his lab/flat in Paris, and they are used by quite a large community of enthusiasts. by the Open make team, Luc Jonveaux. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The project The hardware The research outputs The participants *Banner image: map of the world pointing users of the un0rick hardware.
Interview: audiomoth Alex Rogers is a Professor of Computer Science who lead the team that developed the audiomoth, a low-price passve sound recorder used for biodiversity monitoring in the wild. by the Open make team, Alex Rogers. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The project The hardware The research outputs The participants *Banner image: logo of the openacousticdevices company, By openacousticdevices, used with permission
Interview: Gorgas Tracker Pierre Padilla Huamantinco is a PhD student at Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, he led the development of the Gorgas Tracker, a device that was used to track the position of people and investigate the role of human population movement in malaria epidemiology in rural villages in the Peruvian Amazon river networks. by the Open make team, Pierre Padilla Huamantinco. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.
Interview: GaudiLabs Urs Gaudenz has been part of hackteria and similar open source hardware communities for a long time. Nine years ago, he started GaudiLabs, a “desktop manufacturing” company that is selling open source hardware produced in small scale. One of these products is the Pocket-PCR machine. by the Open make team, Urs Gaudenz. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The project The hardware The research outputs The participants Banner image: GaudiLabs logo, used with permission
Interview: Craniobot by the Open make team, Suhasa Kodandaramaiah. Copyright to the authors, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Sections: The project The hardware The research outputs The participants Banner image: fixme, distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 Interviewee: Suhasa Kodandaramaiah Interviewers: Robert Mies (TU Berlin) & Moritz Maxeiner (FU Berlin) Transcription and editing: Diana Paola Americano Guerrero, Robert Mies, Fabio Reeh, Moritz Maxeiner & Julien Colomb Screenshot of the interview.
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