Tomorrow I kick-off a challenging and exciting project: my first course for legal aspects related to #OpenHardware (OSH )at University of Halle Wittenberg.

Together with my great colleague Martin Häuer, who has a lot of experience with OSH communities, we will go over these topics:

- Licenses for hardware, software and data
- Patent law and OSH
- Protection of semiconductors (RISC-V case study)
- Liability and OSH
- Interoperability regulation
- OSH and administrative law
- AI and generative OSH design

Tomorrow I kick-off a challenging and exciting project: my first course for legal aspects related to #OpenHardware (OSH )at University of Halle Wittenberg.

Together with my great colleague Martin Häuer, who has a lot of experience with OSH communities, we will go over these topics:

- Licenses for hardware, software and data
- Patent law and OSH
- Protection of semiconductors (RISC-V case study)
- Liability and OSH
- Interoperability regulation
- OSH and administrative law
- AI and generative OSH design

📱 FSF Gives More Details About Its New Librephone Project / @linuxiac

｢ Unlike existing mobile projects such as PostmarketOS or Replicant, which focus mainly on the operating system level, Librephone wants to dig deeper into the hardware. The team plans to study and document how these components work through reverse engineering, starting with existing chipsets and phones that already have partial open-source support ｣

https://linuxiac.com/fsf-gives-more-details-about-its-new-librephone-project/

#librephone #openhardware

📱 FSF Gives More Details About Its New Librephone Project / @linuxiac

｢ Unlike existing mobile projects such as PostmarketOS or Replicant, which focus mainly on the operating system level, Librephone wants to dig deeper into the hardware. The team plans to study and document how these components work through reverse engineering, starting with existing chipsets and phones that already have partial open-source support ｣

https://linuxiac.com/fsf-gives-more-details-about-its-new-librephone-project/

#librephone #openhardware

My requirement is very simple: I don't want to have to buy more than one #laptop in my life.

https://mnt.re/

#RightToRepair#Consumerism #OpenHardware #MNT

My requirement is very simple: I don't want to have to buy more than one #laptop in my life.

https://mnt.re/

#RightToRepair#Consumerism #OpenHardware #MNT

If #openSource / #FOSS is not political, is #rightToRepair allowed to be political? Is #StopKillingGames bad for being explicitly political? Is #openHardware with all the actual physical supply chains with workers and factories and natural resources needed for its production (things that wars are fought over) allowed to be just a bit political, as a treat, so that it can actually reach its stated goals?

If #openSource / #FOSS is not political, is #rightToRepair allowed to be political? Is #StopKillingGames bad for being explicitly political? Is #openHardware with all the actual physical supply chains with workers and factories and natural resources needed for its production (things that wars are fought over) allowed to be just a bit political, as a treat, so that it can actually reach its stated goals?

https://www.greenlathe.org/

A FREE virtual conference brought to you by Public Invention and GreenLathe Collective, featuring scientists and inventors covering topics such as:

Open Medical Hardware

Open Software for Medical Systems

Community Action and Resilience in Medicine

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I know these people, they're actual #openSource#openHardware scientists and I'd love to join! :)

#health #climate

What's @aviaviavi of the State of Open Con Advisory Board by Openuk saying about it? Save the dates, 3/4 February 2026, to join the UK's open technology conference, https://stateofopencon.com/

#soocon26 #opensource #openuk #AI #opensourceai #opendata #openhardware #openstandards #opensourcesoftware

What's @aviaviavi of the State of Open Con Advisory Board by Openuk saying about it? Save the dates, 3/4 February 2026, to join the UK's open technology conference, https://stateofopencon.com/

#soocon26 #opensource #openuk #AI #opensourceai #opendata #openhardware #openstandards #opensourcesoftware

Hurrah! #SOURCE issue 3 is out now! There's a focus on #openhardware for this issue with tutorials on the wonderful @FreeCAD , the mighty @kicad , the fabulous @inkscape and also getting your project certified by the brilliant @oshwassociation. As ever it's pay as you feel, links are on this post https://concretedog.blogspot.com/2025/10/source-issue-3-out-now-open-hardware.html #CAD #CAM #PCB #KiCad #FreeCAD #Inkscape #FreeCadFriday #opensource

Please Boost! and have a great weekend. X

Hurrah! #SOURCE issue 3 is out now! There's a focus on #openhardware for this issue with tutorials on the wonderful @FreeCAD , the mighty @kicad , the fabulous @inkscape and also getting your project certified by the brilliant @oshwassociation. As ever it's pay as you feel, links are on this post https://concretedog.blogspot.com/2025/10/source-issue-3-out-now-open-hardware.html #CAD #CAM #PCB #KiCad #FreeCAD #Inkscape #FreeCadFriday #opensource

Please Boost! and have a great weekend. X

I just re-flashed my #MNT #PocketReform keyboard to match the Preonic layout that I've been using for years. My fingers are a little bit confused again, but hopefully less so than they were switching back and forth!

Flashing was easy and worked fine business.
#FLOSS #OpenSource #OpenHardware

❓ You only have this weekend to get you submission in to talk about all the great ideas you have.
❓ Why not come along and tell us of your experiences, thoughts and plans at Everything Open Canberra 2026!

⏰ Come and share with us at #EverythingOpen Canberra 2026.
⏰ Talk submissions still open until 21 September 2025!
https://2026.everythingopen.au/programme/proposals/

#EO2026
#conference
#openSource
#OpenHardware

#OpenSourceSoftware
#OpenEducation
#OpenGovernment
#OpenScience
#OpenData
#OpenPractice
#CallForPapers

❓ You only have this weekend to get you submission in to talk about all the great ideas you have.
❓ Why not come along and tell us of your experiences, thoughts and plans at Everything Open Canberra 2026!

⏰ Come and share with us at #EverythingOpen Canberra 2026.
⏰ Talk submissions still open until 21 September 2025!
https://2026.everythingopen.au/programme/proposals/

#EO2026
#conference
#openSource
#OpenHardware

#OpenSourceSoftware
#OpenEducation
#OpenGovernment
#OpenScience
#OpenData
#OpenPractice
#CallForPapers

I just re-flashed my #MNT #PocketReform keyboard to match the Preonic layout that I've been using for years. My fingers are a little bit confused again, but hopefully less so than they were switching back and forth!

Flashing was easy and worked fine business.
#FLOSS #OpenSource #OpenHardware

Nominate your favourite UK-based #OpenSource heroes at https://openuk.uk/awards/

This isn't pay-to-win. We don't charge for nominations and the award ceremony is also free (and very swanky!).

Please - show your support for your favourite people, projects, and platforms.

Nominations close on the 14th of September.
https://openuk.uk/awards/

#OpenData#OpenHardware#UK#FOSS