Invention Coach:
Public Inventor(s):
Andrew Lamb, Aditya Choksi
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Motivation:
Support of Makers During the Pandemic
This project formed due to the rapid development of various designs during the pandemic that were at risk of being lost or with minimal/no access to the general public.
Story:
A Consolidation of Open-Source Libraries
This team worked to develop a registry to tie together disparate open-source hardware libraries. They created the OSH Registry after observing the many rapidly developed designs meant to address the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, and the lack of public access or consolidation of these designs, intellectual property, general design info, and publicly available resources.
These inventors came together to develop a registry to collect and publicly record various open-source hardware designs and corresponding libraries.
The Idea – Previous Hardware Registries
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 register 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 libary.json file format. No consensus has yet formed in the open source hardware community, although the OSH team advocates the Open Know-How (OKH) standard.
The OSH Registry team aims to build a registry that can take advantage of the OKH, but not rely on it, or even git, as a hosting mechanism.
Related Open-Source Projects
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Status:
Quarterly Goals
Q4: As of October 10, 2024, we added a face shield project from Open Source Medical Supplies to the registry.
Collateral
Published in IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference: https://ieeeghtc.org/
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