Author: thea

Today OSHWA is revoking the certification for the Water Holdup Probe (US002118) and Bin Day Bot (UK000067). We are taking this action because the original owners of both UIDs (Youcef Khetib and Fitton, respectively) asked that the certification be reversed due to accidental filing. Specifically, the application for the Water Holdup Probe should have been submitted through a different entity, and there are licensing problems with the Bin Day Bot.  Both applicants hope to reapply for certification in the future.

An effective certification program requires ongoing monitoring of certified hardware, both by OSHWA and by the larger open source hardware community.  OSHWA prefers to work with responsible parties to resolve problems with certified hardware and views decertification as a last resort. 

We discuss the decertification process in more detail in our blog post about the first decertification.  You can learn more about the certification program on the certification page and certification FAQs.

If you’ve certified a project in the past, you might have come across our OSHW Certification Mark: It’s a neat way of showing off your project’s open source status and helping your users find their way to the list of certificated projects.

We recently added a brand new guide on how to use this mark in various situations, such as on printed circuit boards and in documentation. We’ve also updated the certification directory so you can easily download your project’s certification mark right from the project page– complete with its project UID!

We hope these changes have a positive impact on your work and we hope to see the certification mark out in the wild more often. If you use the mark, we’d love it if you shared a photo with us on our Discord or Twitter.