Chicago was a turning point for Oshwa founder Alicia Walter, both academically and professionally. Her growth as a musician followed a long, arduous period of creative and professional challenges.

The avant-garde pop quartet Oshwa released one of the best local albums of 2013, and continue to push boundaries with material that references everything from 19 th century impressionistic composers ...

ATLAS PhD Candidate Shanel Wu (they/them) recently was awarded a $50,000 Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) Traiblazer Fellowship. The Fellowship began this summer and ends in June 2023. Wu, a ...

In the 2010s, Alicia Walter led criminally underappreciated Chicago band Oshwa, who played dizzying, dramatic math-rock with the finesse of a tween Mensa member simultaneously solving three Rubik’s ...

Alicia Walter is best known for fronting the Chicago art rock Oshwa, but now she’s going solo with her debut LP I Am Alicia, due September 17 via Sooper Records (pre-order). Alicia co-produced the ...

This morning the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) announced a resolution for changing the way SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) pins are labelled on hardware and in datasheets. The protocol ...

Chicago’s Oshwa has consistently defied expectations during its short existence. Over the course of several self-released digital EPs the group has carved a place for itself by taking jazz ...

Oshwa is one of our favorite Chicago bands. The Pilsen-based art-pop outfit absolutely blew us away during this year’s RedEye Rock ‘n’ Vote competition and seeing the band live, either as a full ...

A gear logo proposed to represent and easily identify open-source hardware has caught the eyes of the The Open Source Initiative, which believes the logo infringes its trademark. The gear logo is ...

Last weekend was the Open Hardware Summit in Philadelphia, and the attendees were nearly entirely people who build Open Source Hardware. The definition of Open Source Hardware has been around for a ...

OSHWA recently announced a call for Open Hardware Trailblazer Fellows. Thanks to the generous support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, OSHWA is taking a giant step towards expanding open source ...