What fuels many, if not most, of the open hardware we usually see in the community? OSH Park! OSH Park is a community ordering service for high quality, lead free printed circuit boards manufactured in the USA, shipped free worldwide. Purple, $5 per square inch … From the about page –

We produce high quality bare printed circuit boards, focused on the needs of prototyping, hobby design, and light production. All our services offer purple soldermask over bare copper (SMOBC) and an Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold (ENIG) finish. These are suitable for a lead-free reflow process, and are RoHS compliant.

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Proudly serving the open hardware community, helping hobbyists, tinkerers, and businesses bring their ideas to life.

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High precision boards suitable for industrial, aerospace, and medical applications, ready to plug into your weekend project.

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Our purple boards are manufactured in the USA and shipped free to anywhere in the world.

Check out OSH Park all of their services, blog, instagram, facebook, and twitter.

Here’s our interview with James “Laen” Neal from OSH Park from 2014 (video) and an interview I did with Laen back in 2012 at MAKE Magazine, “Laen, Open Source Hardware Hero.”

Here is the first snapshot from the Wayback machine on archive.org from June of 2012.

Open source hardware month @ Adafruit:

• Open source hardware month with Michael Weinberg – Day 31, 10/31/2019.
• Hackaday and Hackaday.io communities for open hardware makers – Day 31, 10/31/2019.
• Open source hardware: The problems and promise – Day 31, 10/31/2019.
• Crowd Supply – Bringing original, useful, respectful hardware to life – Day 30, 10/30/2019
• What does Open Source Hardware mean to Tindie? – Day 29, 10/29/2019.
• Talking with Andrew “bunnie” Huang – Day 28, 10/28/2019.
• DIY Drones, which launched the largest open UAV communities – Day 27, 10/27/2019.
• OLIMEX open-source hardware made in Bulgaria – Day 26, 10/26/2019.
• Electronic Cats – Open hardware made in México – Day 25, 10/25/2019.
• 10 years ago we tried to make an open source flash light to make us puke … – Day 24, 10/24/2019.
• Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories – Day 23, 10/23/2019.
• MicroPython, bringing Python to hardware for everyone – Day 22, 10/22/2019.
• Open Hardware Month Hack Chat at Hackaday.io – Day 21, 10/21/2019.
• Parallax Open-source hardware – Day 20, 10/20/2019.
• Growing Your Open Business – A Digital Meetup for Open Hardware Month – Day 19, 10/19/2019.
• Open-source hardware at the Museum of Modern Art, posted on 10/19/2019 – Day 18, 10/18/2019.
• Open Hardware Licenses CC BY-SA, CERN, TAPR … – Day 17, 10/17/2019.
• Open Source Hardware Month at SparkFun – Day 16, 10/16/2019.
• How many Open-Source Prusa 3D printers are there? Posted on 10/19/2019 – Day 15, 10/15/2019.
• The RepRap Project Self-Replicating Open-Source 3D Printing – Day 14, 10/13/2019.
• The first 2 orders at Adafruit… now up to 2,161,166 orders – Day 13, 10/13/2019.
• Photos of the first Arduino (2005) – Day 12, 10/12 2019.
• In 2010 there were 13 Open Source Hardware companies that were making $1 million or more… – Day 11, 10/11/2019
• Opening Hardware 2010 at Eyebeam in NYC – Day 10, 10/10/2019.
• The Open Source Gift Guide, the early years – Day 9, 10/9/2019 (posted it on 10/10/2019, whoops)
• Before the iPhone, before the Raspberry Pi, before Amazon Echo Show, there was Chumby – Day 8, 10/8/2019.
• Mitch Altman Open-source hardware pioneer – Day 7, 10/7/2019.
• The Open Source logo(s) – Day 6, 10/6/2019.
• Open Source Hardware events all month long, EVENTS! – Day 5, 10/5/2019.
• Open Source Hardware Certifications and more! – Day 4, 10/4/2019.
• Teuthis Open Source MP3 Player 2001 – Daisy by Raphael Abrams – Day 3, 10/3/2019.
• What is the Open-Source Hardware Definition? – Day 2, 10/2/2019.
• Open hardware summit – Limor “Ladyada” Fried keynote 2010 – Day 1, 10/1/2019.

October is open-source hardware month! Every single day in October we’ll be posting up some open-source stories from the last decade (and more!) about open-source hardware, open-source software, and beyond!

Have an open-source hardware (or software) success story? A person, company, or project to celebrate? An open-source challenge? Post up here in the comments or email [email protected], we’ll be looking for, and using the tag #OHM2019 online as well! Check out all the events going on here!