Tindie and the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) have been friends for a long time! Every year, we like to support them during Open Hardware Month. We encourage our sellers to get their projects/products certified as open hardware. The process is not difficult, and the application on their website walks you through the process! Once you’re certified, this can be highlighted on your product listing on Tindie to let people know it’s certified open hardware.
This year, OSHWA are once again doing a 24hr livestream showing off the coolest open hardware over the last year. It will be on October 10th, starting at 8AM EST and ending 24 hours later. The theme this year is “good slop” – they want to see your messy, sloppy hardware prototypes that are 100% human created. In their words: “… we are looking for your work-in-progress projects, things that are maybe a little silly, projects you have invested time into that not a ton of people will understand why, passion projects, side quests, anything that really took you down a path you didn’t expect, projects that use bioplastics, goop, mycelium, slime, or any other strangely viscous substance!”
If you’re interested in participating in the livestream, you can sign up for a 20-40 minute slot to show off your latest work(s) and talk about open hardware with the community. We encourage those who can to support the amazing work OSHWA does by getting a membership to OSHWA – they rely on members to do all the cool stuff they do every year, like the Open Hardware Summit among many other initiatives.
Throughout Open Hardware Month, we’ll be highlighting open source hardware available on Tindie. If you’ve got an awesome project that hasn’t been covered before and is certified open hardware, get in touch via our social media or email and let us know about it so we can write a blog post about it!
source https://blog.tindie.com/2026/09/october-is-open-hardware-month/
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