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• Join #badge-hacking on the OHS Discord

  oshpark • 03/23/2020 at 19:52 • 0 comments

  Join #badge-hacking channel on the OHS Discord:

  https://discordapp.com/invite/38C57Uf

• How OSHWA made the Summit all virtual in less than a week

  oshpark • 03/20/2020 at 13:14 • 0 comments

  From OSHWA president Michael Weinberg:

  How We Made the Open Hardware Summit All Virtual in Less Than a Week

  First, thank you again to everyone – speakers, participants, and sponsors – for a fantastic 10th anniversary Open Hardware Summit.  We knew the 10th anniversary Summit would be one for the ages, although we didn’t quite expect it to be because it became the first virtual Summit.
  Thanks to the timing of the Summit, the 10th anniversary Summit ended up being many people’s first virtual summit of the Covid-19 era (that includes the organizers).  Unfortunately it looks like it is unlikely to be the last. In the hopes of helping event organizers struggling with the same challenges, this blog post outlines the decisions we made and the steps we took to make it happen.

  Quick Context

  The Open Hardware Summit is an annual gathering of the open source hardware community held by the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA).  This year OSHWA partnered with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law to host the event in New York City.  The event usually brings together hundreds of community members and speakers from around the world.  It was scheduled for March 13, 2020.
  While the situation has been evolving for some time, as recently as March 5th (8 days before the Summit) we thought that holding a reduced in-person version of the event was the right decision.  By March 8 (5 days before the Summit) that was no longer tenable and we announced that the Summit was going all virtual.  That was the right decision, but what does going all virtual mean?

  Priorities

  We had two major priorities for the virtual Summit:

  1. Online streaming video of all of the speakers and panels.
  2. A community space for discussions and coming together.

  Video

  The live stream of the Summit had to be both accessible to our viewers and easy to join for our speakers and panelists.  After considering some options and consulting with experts in our community (huge thank you to Phil Torrone at Adafruit for the guidance), we concluded that a combination of YouTube and StreamYard would be the best option.
  YouTube worked for our community because it is easily accessible on a wide range of platforms in most of the world.  That meant that just about everyone would be able to see the Summit from wherever they were.
  StreamYard made it easy to manage the backend.  Speakers could join a virtual green room before their talk and our technical testing the day before the Summit made it clear that it was easy for them to share their slide presentations as well.  One of the members of the Summit team was able to easily add and remove people (and their screens) to the live feed, along with stills and slides for introductions, sponsors, and everything else.
  

  Community Space

  We also looked at a number of options for online discussions.  We decided that a discord server would be the best option for the open source hardware community. Discord allowed us to open the space to anyone who wanted to join, while at the same time giving us moderation control over the discussion (huge thank you for Lenore Edman from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories for jumping in as a moderator).  Many community members were already comfortable with discord, which was also a bonus.
  We also decided to use discord for a version of Q&A for the speakers.  One option would have been to try and integrate video questions from the audience into the live stream. That would have been technically possible with StreamYard (probably…), but it seemed like an unnecessary logistical complication for the organizers.  As an alternative we decided to set up separate discord channels for each of the speakers. That allowed the speakers to end their talk and move to their discord channel for further discussions.
  One unexpected and welcome development was that the discord server grew into a larger...

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• How to join the virtual Open Hardware Summit tomorrow

  oshpark • 03/12/2020 at 09:21 • 0 comments

  Due to the COVID-19 virus, the Open Hardware Summit has been moved from NYC to cyberspace!

  2020.oshwa.org

  • The livestream link will be updated here on the day of the Summit (13th March 2020).  The event will be running in EST (New York) time zone.
  • For Q&A/discussions, please join the OHS discord server: https://discord.gg/38C57Uf
  • Follow OHSummit on Twitter and use hashtag #ohs2020Virtual
  • The link to sign up for OSHWA email updates: http://eepurl.com/gVRYVz
  • The link for the open hardware survey: https://nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cGDMjnMBVtDqHXL
  • The link to 2021 tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-hardware-summit-2021-tickets-99408361084

• 3D printable case from Anool

  oshpark • 03/11/2020 at 22:05 • 1 comment

  Thanks to @Anool Mahidharia 

  The files including STL are here:

  https://github.com/wyolum/Badge-PCB/tree/master/badge_3DP_enclosure

  I have a TODO item to merge this into the main repo so this URL is best for now.

  Tweets:

  https://twitter.com/pdp7/status/1236257364124274688

  https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1237095364664188941
  

• The Open Hardware Summit is now VIRTUAL, but the swag is real!

  oshpark • 03/11/2020 at 21:40 • 2 comments

  Due to the COVID-19 virus, the Open Hardware Summit has been moved from NYC to cyberspace!

  http://2020.oshwa.org/
  

  Photos of the CircuitPython -powered Open Hardware Summit wrist badge being built at Sparkfun:

  
  Thanks to Nate and team for all their efforts! 💖 

  And thanks to Kevin at Digikey for donating the parts! 💖 

  
  While the OHSummit is now virtual this Friday, existing ticket holders will get emailed through Eventbrite with an address form so we can ship them their OHS goodie bag including the wrist badge!
  
  And join the Discord chat for OHS:
  

  https://discord.gg/38C57Uf
  

  for those interested in the wrist badge, @Michael Welling started a "#badge-hacking" channel

• In production at Sparkfun

  oshpark • 03/05/2020 at 09:15 • 0 comments

  Fresh off the line:

• Fasteners choosen

  oshpark • 02/21/2020 at 11:05 • 0 comments

  Thanks to @Kevin Walseth we will be using these nylon fasteneres from Digi-Key:
  

  RPC1552-ND (WASHER FLAT M3 NYLON) Qty 1240 (4x 310)
  36-25509-ND (HEX STANDOFF M3 NYLON 8MM) Qty 1240 (4x 310)
  36-29341-ND (MACH SCREW PAN SLOTTED M3X0.5) Qty 2480 (4 * 2 * 310)

• Current challenges

  oshpark • 02/10/2020 at 15:01 • 1 comment

  I am behind on making a decision on:
  

  • where to order qty 300 of NATO 22mm watch bands
  • where to coupling nuts / spacers to attach the top and bottom PCBs

  I need to try to make a decision and order by end of this week as Summit is only 4 weeks away!

• Programming jig in progress, Badge Rev 1 ordered

  oshpark • 02/10/2020 at 14:32 • 2 comments

  Programming jig:

  @Alex Camilo is working on the programming jig:

  https://twitter.com/alexcamilo/status/1225679359702265856
  

  https://twitter.com/alexcamilo/status/1226026131075276800

  New boards ordered

  Many of the initial assembled r0 prototypes had shorts on I2C bus:

  https://github.com/oshwabadge2020/Badge-PCB/issues/33

  We believe this is because of bad footprint for U5 (the 9DoF).  I removed U5 from my prototype and the bus is no longer shorted.

  I have ordered new 2x2 panel from OSH Park and new stencil from OSH Stencils.  SparkFun should have by the end of the week.

  Here is the fixed footprint: Fixed PQFN24 footprint for accelerometer

  CHALLENGES

  I am behind on making a decision on:

  • where to order qty 300 of NATO 22mm watch bands
  • where to coupling nuts / spacers to attach the top and bottom PCBs

• Sensors and LCD are working!

  oshpark • 02/05/2020 at 11:31 • 0 comments

  Exciting tweets from @Alex Camilo  and @Michael Welling  with boards that they assembled themselves and also initial boards assembled by SparkFun:

  https://twitter.com/QwertyEmbedded/status/1224189367381454848
  
  

  https://twitter.com/alexcamilo/status/1224549744204308480

  Here is the badge on Michael's wrist:
  

  Here is a close up the board that Nate at SparkFun sent me:

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