Thanks to everyone who attended the Open Healthware Conference! For those that missed out, you can check out the streamed video on our YouTube youtube.com/@OpenSourceHardware

Check out our recommended practices guide up at oshwa.org!

Don't forget to check out the full list of best practices guides up at OSHWA.ORG

Our medical and makers workshop was a hit!

We were stoked to host our first Medical and Makers workshop. If you missed it, check out the recap of this project below. To keep up with more Open Healthware, check out our new site Healthware.oshwa.org

Our Open Healthware Certification is out now! Certify your open healthware device at Healthware.oshwa.org As part of the debut, we held and Open Healthware Certification workshop as part of Open Source Healthware week in San Francisco. Check out our wrap up video on how it went.

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.

Wrapping up with Avinash Baskaran Ph.D. talking about how the path to an open source healthware ecosystem

Dan Blizinski is here and bringing folks through the trenches of building community around open medical devices

Anthony Di Franco coming in with his talk on Open Source solutions for medical supply chain challenges post break!

adriana cabrera is up highlighting how collaborative prototyping, interdisciplinary practices, and material experimentation can contribute to new pathways for assistive device development in health and rehabilitation.

Yadira Sanchez is telling us about her experiences developing a device that measures the fine particles in the smoke in response to the difficulties of rural and Indigenous kitchens in communities across Mexico

This is real. Every major infrastructure and service needs a well equipped makerspace.

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Enrico Bassi has taken the stage to talk how supply chains fail in conflict or crisis, open hardware and hospital makerspaces become real health infrastructure alternatives

Silvestr is taking us through what it looks like to make 3D printing replicable under contraints

We're joined by Stephen Applebaum taking us throuhg reviving a Class II Electrical Median Nerve Stimulator!

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...

Enrico Bassi has taken the stage to talk how supply chains fail in conflict or crisis, open hardware and hospital makerspaces become real health infrastructure alternatives

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

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!)

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

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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Welcome to Day 2! We've got Alexandra Bremers, Ph.D. kicking us off with a talk on the results of a global replication study (N=10) of the Glia Tourniquet!

That's a wrap on Day 1! Thanks for a great first day of the Open Healthware Conference! See you all online and back at Gray Space tomorrow :)

Hitting our final talk of Day 1 with Reitwiec Shandilya on his Open pressure project and reclaiming abandoned medical device through open source hardware

Joel Murphy is presenting ~virtually on the experiencing of making the PulseSensor

The wonderful Dr. Aisen Chacin presenting on bioreactors for Regenerative Bacterial Cellulose in Surgical Simulation

Jack Keenan and Alex Barton are giving all the deets on small scale manufacturing Glia tourniquets!

Erin McKiernan welcoming us back from lunch with her talk on open hardware for biomedical education

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.

Liz Henry and Olga Prilepova are guiding us through what it means to make a repairable wheelchair