List of open-source hardware projects

This is a list of open-source hardware projects, including computer systems and components, cameras, radio, telephony, science education, machines and tools, robotics, renewable energy, home automation, medical and biotech, automotive, prototyping, test equipment, and musical instruments.

Communications

Amateur radio

Homebrew D-STAR Radio

Audio electronics

Monome 40h – reconfigurable grid of 64 backlit buttons, used via USB; a limited batch of 500 was produced; all design process, specifications, firmware, and PCB schematics are available online
Neuros Digital Audio Computer – portable digital audio player
Arduinome
MIDIbox – modular DIY hardware–software platform for MIDI devices including controllers, synthesizers, sequencers

Telephony

Openmoko – phone framework (first use case: First International Computer (FIC) Neo FreeRunner, released as of mid-2008
OpenBTS and OsmoBTS – software-based GSM base stations
Project Ara – modular design, hot swapping plugable mobile phone; due to enter trial production in 2015, but was suspended in 2016
PiPhone and ZeroPhone
Telecom Infra Project – Open Compute Project sister project headed by Facebook focusing on optical broadband networks and open cellular networks
IP04^[1] IP-PBX – open hardware embedded Asterisk (PBX)
Librem 5 - open hardware phone to run linux distributions. Will be ready for sale in 2019.

Video electronics

Milkymist One – video synthesizer for interactive and dance-directed VJing
Neuros OSD – digital video recorder

Networking

NetFPGA – hardware platform, software, community, and education material to enable research and education effort in a line-rate network environment

Wireless networking

Openpicus – platform for smart sensors and Internet of things
Sun SPOT – hardware–software platform for sensor networks and battery powered, wireless, embedded development
USRP – universal software radio peripheral is a mainboard with snap in modules providing software defined radio at different frequencies, has USB 2.0 link to a host computer
PowWow Power Optimized Hardware and Software FrameWork for Wireless Motes – hardware–software platform for wireless sensor networks
Twibright RONJA – free-space optic system, DIY in a garage and maker culture, 10 Mbit/s full duplex/1.4 km
SatNOGS – software-hardware project of a global low earth orbit satellite ground station, including for data and Internet

Electronics

Cameras

AXIOM – digital cinema camera built by apertus° community
Elphel, Inc. – cameras based on free hardware–software designs

Computer systems

Arduino – open-source microcontroller board
Chumby – information ambient device
CUBIT – multitouch surface-interaction system
Libre Computer Project – open-source, open-hardware single board computers^[2]
MNT Reform DIY Laptop - A DIY laptop made with free software and open source hardware.
Netduino – microcontroller board, .NET Micro Framework based
NodeMCU – Wi-Fi microcontroller board
Parallax Propeller – a multi-core microcontroller with eight 32-bit RISC cores
Parallella – single board computer with a manycore coprocessor and field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
SparkFun Electronics – microcontroller development boards, breakout boards
The Bus Pirate – universal bus interface and programmer
Turris Omnia – open-source SOHO network router
UDOO – open source, open hardware single board computers^[3]

Gaming

PocketSprite – open-hardware, open-software portable gaming device^[4]

Peripherals

Nitrokey – USB key for data and email encryption and strong authentication
U2F Zero - USB key for U2F authentication

Robotics

ArduCopter – Arduino-based drone
e-puck mobile robot – education oriented mobile robot
ICub – 1 metre high humanoid robot
IOIO – a board that allows Android applications to interface with external electronics
Orb swarm – art spherical robots
OpenRAVE
RobotCub – predecessor of ICub
Spykee
multiplo
OpenROV – telerobotic submarine
Thymio – robot for education
Tinkerforge – a platform comprising stackable microcontrollers for interfacing with sensors and other I/O devices

Environmental

Air Quality Egg – platform and pollution-sensing devices for citizen crowdsource monitoring of air quality
Open Source Ecology

Renewable energy

Wind turbines

Lighting and LED

LED Throwies – nondestructive graffiti and light displays

Neither electronic nor mechanical

Architecture and Design

WikiHouse – project to design and build houses
Opendesk – furniture project
OpenStructures - design from furniture to house

Domotics

See List of home automation software#Proprietary hardware

Machines and production tools

Automotive

Complete vehicles

Engine control units

SECU-3 – gasoline engine control unit

Electric vehicle chargers

OpenEVSE – charger for electric cars^[6]

3D printers and scanners

RepRap project – 3D printer-fabber; recyclebots, like the Lyman filament extruder, provide the filament for RepRaps
LulzBot – 3D printer design by Aleph Objects; is Respects Your Freedom certified by the Free Software Foundation

Other hardware

Lasersaur – laser cutter
Multimachine – machine tool project
NODE Digital Multitool - A 3D-printable multitool for holding USB drives, keys, micro-SD cards, etc.
Open Source Ecology's Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – 50 different industrial machines needed to build a small civilization with modern comforts
OpenBuilds V-Slot - Modular Framing System

Science

Medical devices

Open Prosthetics Project – design of prosthetics

Scientific hardware

Open-Source Lab (book) – documents dozens of scientific tools, but is closed-source itself
OpenBCI - EEG amplifier^[5]

Satellite

UPSat

References

↑ IP04 IP-PBX Creator's blog
↑ "Libre Computer". Libre Computer. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
↑ "Documentations". UDOO. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
↑ "PocketSprite - Tiny Retro Gaming on your Keychain". PocketSprite. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
1 2 Cicero, Simone (27 December 2013). "10 of the Most Incredible Open Source Hardware Projects Born in 2013". Open Electronics. Futura Group. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
↑ OpenEV

External links

Open Source Hardware at Curlie (based on DMOZ)
Open modular hardware

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[1] IP04 IP-PBX Creator's blog

[2] "Libre Computer". Libre Computer. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[3] "Documentations". UDOO. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[4] "PocketSprite - Tiny Retro Gaming on your Keychain". PocketSprite. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[Cicero-5] 1 2 Cicero, Simone (27 December 2013). "10 of the Most Incredible Open Source Hardware Projects Born in 2013". Open Electronics. Futura Group. Retrieved 2017-03-12.

[6] OpenEV