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 pluggable mobile phone; due to enter trial production in 2015, but was suspended in 2016^[1]
PiPhone and ZeroPhone
Telecom Infra Project – collaborative Open Compute Project focusing on optical broadband networks and open cellular networks to create global access
PinePhone – developed by computer manufacturer Pine64, intended for allowing the user to have full hardware and software control over the device, released as of end-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]
Netduino – microcontroller board, .NET Micro Framework based
NodeMCU – Wi-Fi microcontroller board
Novena – an ARM based computer built by Andrew Huang and associates
OpenPOWER – Power ISA, an open-source hardware instruction set architecture (ISA) initiated by IBM
OpenSPARC - Sun's, later Oracle's high-performance processor.
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)
Raspberry Pi - a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in association with Broadcom.
SparkFun Electronics – microcontroller development boards, breakout boards
The Bus Pirate – universal bus interface and programmer
Turris Omnia – open-source SOHO network router
– open source, open hardware single board computers^[3]
RISC-V – an open-source hardware instruction set architecture (ISA)
MIPS - a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture
Color Maximite - Open source single-board computer running the BASIC language as its operating system and compatible with Arduino Uno micro-controller peripherals.
Humane Reader and Humane PC

Peripherals[]

Nitrokey – USB key for data and email encryption and strong authentication

Robotics[]

ArduCopter – Arduino-based drone
e-puck mobile robot – mobile robot designed for education
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[]

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[]

Machines and production tools[]

Automotive[]

Complete vehicles[]

Land[]

Airplanes[]

MakerPlane

Engine control units[]

SECU-3 – gasoline engine control unit

Electric vehicle chargers[]

OpenEVSE – charger for electric cars^[5]

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[]

Multimachine – machine tool project
Open Source Ecology's Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – 50 industrial machines needed to build a small civilization with modern comforts
Precious Plastic's – plastic recycling tools - Shredder, Extruder, Injector, Compressor, and supplemental resources
Defense Distributed/Liberator (gun)

Charon (gun)

Science[]

Medical devices[]

Open Prosthetics Project – design of open-source prosthetics
Open-source ventilator

Scientific hardware[]

Open-Source Lab (book) – documents dozens of scientific tools, but is closed-source itself
OpenBCI - EEG amplifier^[4]

Satellite[]

UPSat

References[]

^ "The dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of the world's most revolutionary phone". VentureBeat. 10 January 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
^ "Libre Computer". Libre Computer. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Documentations". UDOO. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Cicero, Simone (27 December 2013). "10 of the Most Incredible Open Source Hardware Projects Born in 2013". Open Electronics. Futura Group. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
^ OpenEV

External links[]

[1] "The dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of the world's most revolutionary phone". VentureBeat. 10 January 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2021.

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

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

[Cicero-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Cicero, Simone (27 December 2013). "10 of the Most Incredible Open Source Hardware Projects Born in 2013". Open Electronics. Futura Group. Retrieved 12 March 2017.

[5] OpenEV

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