On 24 and 25 November 2025, the OSHOP network hosted its second conference on the topic of “Open Source Hardware”. Chemnitz, the Capital of Culture 2025, was chosen as the venue. We were there with many people. After the positive experience from 2024, we were particularly well represented on site this year by a dozen […]
Maker Faire Reunion – Long live the Fair Mouse!
Have you ever heard of the Fair Computer Mouse with wooden wheel and Blue Angel label? It’s been around for 15 years, and we want to see it live on, so we’ve joined forces with other people and united in the “Fair IT Yourself e.V.” association – for the open development of fair IT. A […]
ZAC+ Fuel cell construction for beginners and advanced users with Citizen Science
A citizen science workshop on the zinc-air fuel cell took place at the weekend from 21 March to 22 March 2025, the documentation of which we already discussed in the last blog post. Sigrid has written a field report. Many thanks to Sigrid and enjoy reading! Bright sunshine in Knobelsdorffstraße in Berlin Charlottenburg. It must […]
E-Cargo-Bike – DIN SPEC Conformity Assessment approved
In an extensive rebuild review in accordance with the DIN SPEC 3105 standardisation for open source hardware, we were able to check the documentation of the vhéliotech E-Cargo-Bike for completeness and confirm conformity. It is the most complex review with a complete rebuild to date. On the occasion of the German-French VULCA seminar and the […]
OpenEcoLab Tour 2024 – Circling for a Circular Society…
At the end of our ‘OpenEcoLab Mapping’ project funded by the Postcode Lottery, our core team set off on the ‘OpenEcoLab Tour 2024’. The aim of the tour was – in addition to visiting some long-established OpenEcoLabs – to visit new potential OpenEcoLabs in order to get to know the people, projects and locations better. […]