Want to saw something quickly, but can’t find the saw and quickly vacuum up the wood chips that have been flying around for weeks while searching – anyone who is regularly in an open workshop or hack space probably knows the problem. But instead of always doing the same work, it should be possible to design the systems behind it better. At least that’s what people thought in the hobby heaven of Stuttgart and developed OSSO. The abbreviation is quite self-explanatory for O pen S ource – S ystem for S tidiness and O guideline for open workshops.

Behind this are six sub-projects: osSHELF, osVAC, osCLEAN, osBOX, osTRAY and osWALL, each of which addresses a known workshop problem and is implemented in different ways. For example, under osVAC, the vacuum cleaner concept of the hobby sky was rethought, which had previously often led to poor air thanks to many different vacuum cleaners with different connections and high bag consumption. Now there is a coupling system with a focus on the D 32 – standard hose and a workshop vacuum cleaner with cyclone separator. The resulting print templates for the numerous adapters that combine the existing vacuum cleaner parts are available for download on the Thingiverse 3D printing platform. Further developments are expressly desired.

Please develop further osCLEAN has also been tried and tested in practice Bringing cleaning and cleaning agents together properly. Plaster walls are now hanging in the workshop, on which the devices required, such as hand brushes and cloth rags, can be stored in a space-saving manner. OsWALL should work according to a similar principle. Since the corona pandemic is currently making it difficult to work together, the project is still in its infancy. There are already a few workshop walls with prepared suspensions, but in Stuttgart there is still room for improvement in the options for conversion and reconstruction. Some tools are difficult to assign to their place and when new devices are moved in, reorganization is often tedious.

More order with OSSSO (4 pictures) With osSHELF, different boxes can also be stowed efficiently.

(Image: OSSSO / Hobbyhimmel) Since the project is open source, everyone in Hobby Heaven is happy about anyone interested in developing the templates or implementing their own ideas and uploading their variants to Thingiverse. Short introductions on YouTube have recently been added to the range to make entry into the workshop as easy as possible. There, equipment such as saws, grinding and drilling machines are presented and it is explained what to look out for when using them. The videos may explicitly be used by other workshops and therefore do not replace the introduction on the respective device.

Competition for Makerspaces Finally, we are looking for other, even smaller, projects in our current Makerspace Challenge. Show us your hacks and little helpers against chaos and disorder in the workshop. We will award the three best entries with a basket full of tools and filaments. In addition to the general awesome factor, the focus is on reproducibility and the price-performance ratio. The deadline for submissions via the new Make Projects platform ends on 31. January 2021. (hch)