 source hardware news Happy birthday spark fun. Spark fun is celebrating their 20th anniversary. They have a sale going on and You know us check them out support them. You know us we link to everyone We send everyone to everyone's website that we don't consider folks competitors. Everyone's doing open source hardware. We had Nate and Alicia on ask an engineer. I looked up because I'm like Oh one was the last time they were on the show About ten years ago. This is when we were beard be wiker Phil. Yeah, this is like right right refill There was a transporter accident, but then I was thinking I wonder what Open source hardware that Spark fun and a deferred have been doing together like what what percentage are we together a lot so all together for open source hardware projects There's 951 total. Yes, and then yeah completely. Yeah, yeah, and if you look spark fun has 405. Yeah It's 540 when you do the math These two companies together are about half of all of open source hardware, but here's what I like It's not over half which means the majority of open source hardware is not from us There's other people doing it which is good because it would be a real I mean it would be the worst thing if we were like 95 percent, but I'm really glad that it isn't just us It's a community of people. Yeah working together. We're all doing the Oshawa certification online and It's just working out. So check it out. Happy anniversary It if it isn't 20 years old will be there eventually and probably sooner than we think but it's cool to see another open source hardware company doing it and also publishing your files and Certifying their hardware and keeping the values going. There's not a lot of us out there. There's only a few left So thank you support all the source hardware companies especially this year because a lot of companies Really really suck stronger struggled and suffered struffled Over the last two years We saw many companies. This has been tough, you know Either they've closed or they've really had to downsize quite a bit because if you can't ship hardware for two years your cash flow takes a big hit and It was challenging for a fruit. I'm sure it was challenging for spark fun as well Like I said, I sort of see a glimmer of hope You know parts that have been out of stock and unavailable for two years are suddenly Becoming available again or our stock in staff numbers are the highest they've been in you know about a year But it's been it was it was a struggle was a slog We definitely went through the what was it from the Princess Bride like the forest of tears or something Yeah, it's been it's been really tough on everyone. So, you know sport open source hardware companies Spark phones one of them made a fruits one of them The numbers were there this is the two companies that are that are trying to do their best sharing and Helping to get the next generation of engineers out there