October comes fast! This year we are once again running Show & Tell, our 24hr Membership Drive Livestream! Mark your calendars because October 10th 8am to October 11th 8am we will be exploring open source hardware far and wide with a focus on delightfully sloppy, human-made prototypes 👁️ 🫟

@gilduran.com was one of the first mainstream journalists covering the emerging tech fascism in the Bay Area. Tech billionaires ran a pilot of their fascist political strategy in San Francisco before rolling it out nation wide. I'm excited to read Gils new book on the topic this weekend.

The OpenCV AI Competition 2026 (powered by AWS) has one rule that matters: use image or video analysis to solve a real problem. Healthcare, accessibility, safety, autonomous systems — pick a domain that needs the work. $12K in prizes, you keep your IP. Register: opencv.org/opencv-ai-co...

Woke 1 and Woke 2 have now been deprecated. We're about to release Woke 3.0.0 and using semantic versionsing (SemVer 2.0) from now on.

I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)

My boyfriend: I'm going to reverse engineer the tool chain for this obscure Chinese FPGA. Also my boyfriend: folding a fitted sheet is an intractable problem that cannot be solved.

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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I support computer vision professionals. Back the RGB! Thank you for your service. 🫡

Thank you so much for joining us in San Francisco for the 2026 Open Healthware Week! We are so happy to have witnessed so many incredible talks, workshop collaborations, projects and conversations among attendees.

Welcome back to Day 2 of the Open Healthware Conference! You can watch all the talks LIVE on Youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y4A...

Open Healthware Conference 2026 Day 2

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Daniel Lam and George Fakes presenting on what it means to restore a discontinued clinical tool through open sourcing

Andrew Lamb is up to tell us all about the ways that Open Healthware exists around the world (and somehow so many of these projects happen to be in the room!)

Jen Wilson is joining us virtually to tell us about quality assurance is one of the areas in open source manufacturing !

Day 2 of our @oshwassociation.bsky.social Open Source Healthware Conference is now live on YouTube. While we're focused on medical devices the event is broadly applicable to all hardware developers. www.youtube.com/live/6y4A6bc...

Doug B is bringing us back post break with a talk on open source MRI

Check out this $400 commercial braile printer at the @oshwassociation.bsky.social open healthware summit. Commercial printers cost almost $4000 making them unaffordable in the global south. If you're interested in this kind of stuff we're currently running a conference in SF.

Our @oshwassociation.bsky.social Open Healthware Conference just kicked off! If you want to learn more about making medical equipment free and open source please tune into our live stream. www.youtube.com/live/g7AY7-i...

Check out Doug Brantner's talk "Open Source MRI" at the Open Healthware Conference on July 9th and 10th in San Francisco. OpenSourceImaging.org has developed the OSI² ONE MRI - a working, fully open source, low-cost MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) machine, including both hardware and software.

Kicking off the Open Healthware Conference with a workshop in our new certification process with Yves Nazon and Avinash Baskaran!

Yeah, pretty sure the founding fathers of America were gay AF.

I'm not an agent of the CCP but I'm pretty sure the combination of the three technologies below would bring the Silicon Valley startup economy to its knees and shift the locus of AI innovation eastward. The national security apparatus is the only rational explanation for why it doesn't exist yet.

Excuse me, did you just call me a vibe coder? I went to college for this stuff! I'm a professional slopware engineer.

Serious question, on Google Maps, when you click on the "Menus" tab of a restaurant why is it always 12 photos of the cocktail menu / wine list and like one out of date picture of the actual food menu? FFS we have OCR and AI. Are alcoholics the only ones reviewing restaurants?

Anyone know the camera module or CCD/CMOS sensor on Flock cameras? Lens and filter specs would also help. Working on a little project.

I just saw a robotics professor at a major EU university complaining in public about the mere existence of an LGBTQIA affinity group. These bigots continue to exist in society and pose obstacles to marginalized communities. Happy Pride month everyone. Please continue to be loud and proud.

The 2026 Open Healthware Conference is coming up FAST on July 9th and 10th in San Francisco! Check out some highlights from the schedule right here: oshwa.org/announcement...

If "taste is the new intelligence" why am I not seeing more of these mid century Erik Nitsche posters at hard tech startups in the Bay Area?

Not a bad day at Sunset Dunes Park.

I'm begging a young PhD in the social sciences to write about how we went from "makers" in the post 2007-2020 era to "builders" post Covid. The former was full of whimsy, curiosity, and frankness while the later is the pastiche of hacker culture in the service of capital.

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Two former DOGE staffers claim that they’re bringing the ethos of Elon Musk’s government experiment to the private sector—and they’re starting with elder care, Charlie Warzel writes: