This blog post is a few weeks late, but here it is! Happy to be part of the 2025 cohort of the SOAM Residency Program to work on the theme of funding public interest technology. I'm focusing specifically on how we can make Open Hardware just as big and successful as Open Source Software, so we can gain back control of our technology where it really matters: chip by chip. I wrote about here, interested in your thoughts as always: https://tarakiyee.com/how-can-open-hardware-catch-up-with-open-source-software/

"I’m particularly interested in hearing from institutional designers interested in alternative models for tech financing, hardware developers who’ve struggled with the challenges of open hardware projects, manufacturers who are frustrated by proprietary tooling and licencing fees, policy researchers thinking about the regulatory and economic dimensions, and anyone who’s frustrated with the current state of proprietary hardware dominance."

#TaraKiyee, 2025

https://tarakiyee.com/how-can-open-hardware-catch-up-with-open-source-software/

#OpenHardware

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@tarakiyee is "exploring how we might create sustainable economic models for open hardware infrastructure development that don’t rely on the extractive capitalism that has shaped our current tech landscape"
https://tarakiyee.com/how-can-open-hardware-catch-up-with-open-source-software #oshw #openhardware

https://mastodon.online/@tarakiyee/114864738816397156

NGI0 Commons Fund - EC's largest Open Source fund with 27M€ - is now operating in full speed and just announced its latest round of grantees: https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250624-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
Congratulations to the winners
#opensource #openhardware @nlnet#NGI

Hey! Stop what you're doing and nominate someone for the OpenUK Open Source Awards!

https://openuk.uk/awards/

You can nominate any UK based person, project, or group. Including yourself 😄

We promise a glittering awards ceremony which is free to attend (no pay to play here) and a chance to show off how brilliant the UK's FOSS scene is.

#FOSS#OpenSource#OpenHardware#OpenUK

Testing routes from central Seattle down to Tacoma is shockingly stable.

#meshcore #pnw #seattle #tacoma #radio#PugetMesh

Meshcore is working well enough in Seattle that now adoption is the largest issue to having a more robust LoRa mesh network.

So if you're in the PNW area and want to build a solid handheld LoRa radio to try out meshcore I've made a bill of materials for my go to portable build LoRa plans.

https://git.devhack.net/nullagent/lora-builds/src/branch/main/rak

#meshcore #seattle #pnw #tacoma #openhardware #arduino #lora #radio

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🔧 Big news: the first Liberux dev-board is here!

After weeks of work, we’ve finally received the assembled PCB and already started booting it up. Our hardware team has spent the last days debugging, testing, and getting the SoC to talk to the PC, and we’re officially entering the bring up phase! 🎉

📚 We just published a full post with all the details, photos and videos: 👉 https://liberux.net/our-first-dev-board-has-arrived/

#Liberux#LiberuxNEXX #linuxphones #openhardware #opensource

Das Veröffentlichen von Designfiles und Anleitungen ist nur ein erster Schritt. Um eine Entwicklung zu teilen und zur Zusammenarbeit einzuladen braucht es auch eine Lizenz. Erst durch die Lizenz wird deutlich, unter welchen Bedingungen das Wissen weiterverwendet werden kann.
Wir haben in einem kleinen Blogpost festgehalten, was es bei der Lizenzierung von #OpenSourceHardware für Möglichkeiten gibt.

https://blog.opensourceecology.de/de/2024/08/open-source-hardware-lizenzen/

#OpenHardware#OSH#Lizenzen#OpenLicense#OpenSource#OSEG#CERNOHL