PCBWay’s open hardware summit experience

The 2017 Open Hardware Summit is the annual gathering of the OSHWA organization and open hardware community. It will be held in Denver, Colorado on October 5th at McNichols Civic Center.

PCBWay as one of the sponsors, very happy to participate in this meeting. This time about more than 250 engineers and enthusiasts together to discuss application of open source hardware and future of development and other issues. The meeting is very successful, everyone is enjoying the party, exchange ideas and meet new friends.

PCBWay added new features that allow share pcb file this year. This meeting help us learn more experience from others, also a better understanding of the meaning of open source.

Meeting Tour

The following is the schedule of the meeting

We arrived at the venue at half past eight o'clock in the morning, the staff of summit has already distributed badges and goodie bags.

The badge of this meeting and PCBWay's gift in each goodie bag ------- PCBWay ruler

Before the meeting begins, we can visit company's interesting products show, such as Lulazbot, hackaday, Tindie, Crowsupply, Eagle and so on.

And we are very happy to meet new friends at this meeting.

The engineers had a very good share during formal meeting began,from them we learned a lot of new ideas and knowledge. E.g

from @StephanieLacambra---can you be compelled to give passwords to law enforcement?

From @LauraJames---hardware for disaster Relief 

From @ShahSelb--Wild Hardware: Advantage with ecological IoT and National Geographic and so on.

And thanks Chris take photos for us,so great.

And we were very happy that 2019 open source hardware summit will be held in Shenzhen, If the opportunity is available, welcome everyone to visit PCBWay company.

We visited Sparkfun and Lulzbot company on the 6th,Oct

SPARKFUN TOUR

SparkFun Electronics is an electronics retailer in Niwot, Colorado. It manufactures and sells microcontroller development boards and breakout boards. All products designed and produced by SparkFun are released as open-source hardware.

LULZBOT TOUR

LulzBot is a a Free Software, Libre Innovation, 3D printed,and Open Source Hardware company.

THANK YOU OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE ASSOCIATION

Because of this meeting, the engineers in various fields have the opportunity together to exchange ideas. I hope that influence of OSHWA in the future will be growing and help more and more engineers or hobbyists.Next time we will meet again,OSHWA.

Note: some pictures are from others