The 2025 Open Hardware Summit is coming soon….
OHS 2025 Promo Image
Join us at the 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh!
Join us in Edinburgh, Scotland May 30th and 31st for the Open Hardware Summit. We are so excited to have incredible programming between our speakers, workshop runners and performers there’s something for everyone.
We’ll be kicking off the the talks on Day 1 with Carson Holgate who will be telling us all about hacking knitting machines!
carson holgate
knitting machineboard
The talks cover a wide range of topics this year from open source devices for biodiversity measurement with the MothBox crew
moth box crew
mothbox
To growing food with a kitchen table bioreactor with Gerrit Niezen
gerrit niezen
gerrit niezen project
And how the KiCad libraries are maintained with volunteer librarian Kliment!
kliment
kliment project
We’ve got Farnaz Baksh and Matevž Zorec presenting on the Robot Study Companion social bot
Farnaz and Matevz
And Saad Chinoy speaking on the BrailleRap, an open source braille embossing device that has been replicated in Bhutan, Singapore, Philippines, and soon in Cameroon, Thailand, and Cambodia!
braillerap
Day 2 is packed with workshops and this year we’ve added panels! You can join Lion Sanguinette and make an OpenCyclone, an open source vacuum cleaner.
opencyclone
Or Abao in making a 1,540,000nm of DDSSC (DIY dye sensitized solar cell) and build a simple cell with customized color and graphics to power a small low power consuming synthesizer.
1,540,000nm of DDSSC (DIY dye sensitized solar cell)
You can even spend some time with Material Kitchen and play with conductive biomaterials to build a capacitive sensing circuit together that will turn the biomaterial into a sensitive surface that can sense your touch and presence.
material kitchen
Participate in the discussions around the role of open source hardware in medical products, disability forward designs, rocketry, environmental work and wearable techniques in the panels track.
We are also happy to be collaborating with Helen Leigh and CrowdSupply on a Hardware Happy Hour, they’ve been a wonderful way to meet fellow attendees for the last couple years of OHS.
Plus a social at Wee Red Bar on Saturday night that will feature a OHS themed drag performance, live data trigger distortions, and cassette tape looping!
rednosie
cassettes
Want to know more about the schedule? Check out the official OHS2025 site and find out about the additional 12 talks, 8 workshops, and 26 tables that we couldn’t fit in this newsletter!
If you haven’t done it yet now is the time to get your ticket for OHS2025!
See you in Edinburgh!