OwnTech is a company and a foundation dedicated to democratizing access via open-source to a key enabler of the energy transition: Power Electronics. Discrete and ubiquitous, power electronics allows the creation of hardware and software that drive electric cars, charge batteries and connect solar panels to the grid. It is an amalgamy of electronics hardware, real-time embedded software and control algorithms. It is complex, hard and central to decarbonizing society.
Yet, despite its key role in the transition, power electronics is still an obscure discipline only properly understood by a handful few. It has not yet gone through the type of open-source fast-prototyping revolution brought about by Arduino or Raspberry Pi in the industrial informatics and computer fields. We at OwnTech are dedicated to do just that: revolutionize the way power electronics is taught, understood and used in the field. Last year we introduced ourselves to the FOSDEM community, this year we bring the updates and showcase our consolidated open-software and open-hardware advancements.
In this talk we will briefly describe the origin of our project, our technology and provide a working demo of our V1 embedded software. We will also show you our hardware, the types of functions it can provide and how it can become a game-changer in the power electronics fast prototyping community.
See you at the FOSDEM Energy DevRoom!