The Open Hardware Observatory is an initiative that aims to make open hardware more accessible. It provides a search engine to help you find open hardware projects published anywhere on the web. And it is currently developing a community-based platform for reviewing open source hardware documentation based on DIN SPEC 3105. The Observatory is being developed by a group of people from Open Source Ecology Germany e.V. and TU Berlin. Lukas Schattenhofer — together with Consuelo Alberca Susano, Mehrdad Mansouri, and Nils Weiher — is currently working on the community around the Observatory. Schattenhofer explains how it works and invites Elektor readers to join the community.