This is a guest post from Fairdevices. At Fairdevices, ‘fairness’ primarily refers to honesty towards the customer through open-source schematics, whereas other projects, such as the [Fair Mouse](https://blog.opensourceecology.de/de/2025/09/maker-faire-reunion-long-live-the-fair-mouse/), tend to associate fairness more with good production conditions than with open source. This difference stems from the different communities, but is also due to the varying […]
Open Source Building Kit – first modular hardware verified
How do open source hardware, modularity and compliance with DIN SPEC 3105 go along? Our review and rebuild of the Open Source Building Kit (OSBK) provides some initial answers. The OSBK is a framework for measuring and transmitting data, developed for marine observation.The OSBK is now officially verified DIN SPEC 3105-1 compliant. Since the publication […]
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+ 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 […]
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, […]