Open-source Hardware (OSH) Registry

Robert L. Read, Christina Cole, and Victoria Jaqua

Andrew Lamb and Aditya Choksi

https://pubinv.github.io/osh-registry/

This project formed due to the rapid development of various designs during the pandemic that are currently at risk of being lost or with minimal/no access to the general public.

This team desires to develop a registry to tie together disparate Open Source Hardware Libraries. This project team formed motivation for their project after observing several rapid designs being developed because of the outcomes formed from the 2020 pandemic, and noticing a lack of public access or consolidation of their efforts, intellectual property, general design info, and publicly available resources.

Since then, these inventors have come together to develop a registry to collect and publicly record various open-source hardware designs and corresponding libraries.

“The Idea!”

This repo is modeled after the Arduino Library Registry and the way it works. The idea is to allow new open source hardware projects to be registered here by making a pull request against a simple flat file that adds a new project. In this way the public is encouraged to add new projects.

However, the Arduino community is mature and has a standardized and accepted in the libary.json file format. No consensus has yet formed in the open source hardware community, although we advocate the Open Know-How (OKH) standard.

We are seeking a registry that can take advantage of the OKH, but does not rely on it, or even depend on git as a hosting mechanism.

open-source website programmers, technical writers, hardware designers, and other parties interested

Q4: As of October 10, 2024, we are adding a face shield project from Open Source Medical Supplies to the registry.

Published in IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference: https://ieeeghtc.org/