Open Hardware Summit comes to Scotland on May 30th, 2025!

Tickets are now on sale, snag yours early for a discount! In the meantime, check out our schedule of talks and workshops to get excited.

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OHS 2025 will take place in Edinburgh on May 30th & 31st, 2025! We have an incredible line up of speakers, talks, and workshops with more to come. Looking to get involved? We’re also building an amazing team of on-the-ground helpers and teammates, read on for more details!

Since 2010, the Open Source Hardware Association, a 501(c)(3) not for profit charity, has hosted the Open Hardware Summit- a comprehensive conference for the open hardware community and the ever changing open source hardware movement.

Speakers include world renowned leaders from industry, academia, the arts and maker community. Talks cover a wide range of subjects from electronics, mechanics to related fields such as digital fabrication, fashion technology, self-quantification devices, and IP law. As a microcosm of the Open Source Hardware community, the Open Hardware Summit provides an annual, friendly forum for the community.

Our international event usually has around 300 attendees from around the world, you can find past schedules here, here, and here (and for the past 10+ years).

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This year's lovely and vibrant visual design was created by Tanya Brassie of Inner Loop Press! Check out their work!

Get involved

Here’s what we’re looking for:

  • People who can help us reach the weird, wonderful, and technical open source, Hacker, DIY, tech/art and maker community in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and all around the UK and Europe.
  • People who are connected with makerspaces, hackerspaces, labs or other creative spaces that can help spread the word all around the world.
  • People who are excited about reaching diverse and underrepresented populations.
  • Spaces interesting in hosting workshops, parties, community gatherings and other happenings.
  • Seasoned open source enthusiast and people who want to be involved in open source but aren’t sure how. No experience required.
  • Be able to attend (or contribute to asynchronously) to meetings once a month, usually Wednesday mornings in US Eastern Time (UTC-4) or around 5 PM GMT (UTC+1).

We do not require that all presentations, organizers, or helpers be open source certified or contribute to open source projects, but only that you are enthusiastic about sharing and learning about open source work.

Here's what you'll get:

  • Connected with some of the world's most active open source communities. Past sponsors have included Sparkfun, Arduino, Digi-Key, and other key players in the hardware community.
  • A free or discounted ticket to the event.
  • Free opportunity to exhibit your work to over 300 people.
  • A hand in forming the vision for one of the largest Open Source events in 2025.
  • An unforgettable experience with cool people from around the world!
  • An opportunity to connect globally with people working in your field- be it academically, recreationally, or within the industry.

If you are interested in helping out, please email us at hello@leecyb.org.

See you in Edinburgh!

The team

Lee Wilkins

Lee is an artist, cyborg, and educator currently based in Montreal. They hold a bachelor's from Concordia University, a master's from OCAD University, and currently are a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. Lee is interested in lasers, technology, outer space exploration, and building whimsical robots.

They are a member of OSHWA's board of directors, co-executive director at Little Dada, and secretary and board member at Pleasure Dome. You may know them from co-organizing events like Make Change Conference, Make Friends Meetup, Long Exposure Festival, Defcon Biohacking Village, or from being director at Site 3 coLaboratory.

Sid Drmay

Sid Drmay is an artist, maker and freelance journalist based in KW, ON. They have a deep passion for zines and run the Hamilton Zine Machine as well as KW Zinetopia. They have written for This Magazine, Shameless Magazine, Xtra Magazine and CBC. They currently co-chair the Digital Naturalism Conference and work as the Community Manager & Fellowship Chair for the Open Source Hardware Association. You can find them being annoying online on nearly every platform @cyborggarbage.