Technology is not just about making and inventing, it’s about connecting knowledge; across tools, materials, workflows, and contexts. But to enable real interoperability, we need more than repositories; we need linked, structured data that can flow between systems without being centralized. Almost a year ago, we set out to gain support for a new generation […]
Community Review – A new method for reliably documented Open Source Hardware (OSH)
Good open documentation is a labour-intensive topic. It is essential for the development of an open source hardware project and for building a community. The community review process according to DIN Spec 3105 is time-consuming, but it takes OSH projects a good deal further.
ZAC+ Citizen Science Project
Fuel cells are a much-discussed technology with great potential that is now seeking its place in the economy. And as is always the case with new technologies in the economy, a lot of money is suddenly invested, but the research and findings are hardly shared. This is where our Zinc-Air Fuel Cell Citizen Science project, […]
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. […]
Open Source Hardware Booklet | OSEG e.V.
Open source hardware is an approach in which knowledge is shared openly. This enables individual and collaborative innovation on a scale we cannot even imagine today. As part of a project funded by the Postcode Lottery, a booklet has been produced that attempts to provide a low-threshold introduction to the topic of open source hardware […]
Open source hardware and intellectual “property”
There is always uncertainty as to what an open source licence protects. Here we want to give a brief overview of the different forms of intellectual property.
OpenEcoLab Mapping: The contact phase has begun! | OSEG e.V.
The summer is entering its final phase, and our OpenEcoLab Mapping is evolving! The next phase of our project has begun: a few days ago, we started reaching out to potential OpenEcoLabs across Germany to invite them to join the OpenEcoLab network. Background: OpenEcoLabs are locations that implement open-source developments in hardware, as well as […]
Adapting open source methods to products
How does open hardware improve our lives? What are progressive engineers currently working on?