List of open-source hardware projects

The following is the list of open source hardware projects that includes computer systems and components, cameras, radio, telephony, science education, machines & tools, robotics, renewable energy, home automation, medical & biotech, automotive, prototyping, test equipment, and musical instruments.

Amateur radio

• Homebrew D-STAR Radio

Audio electronics

• Monome 40h – A reconfigurable grid of 64 backlit buttons, used via USB. A limited batch of 500 monome 40h has been produced. All the design process, design specifications, firmware and PCB schematics are available online.
• Neuros Digital Audio Computer – An open-source portable digital audio player.

Automotive

Main article: Open-source car

• Local Motors (Rally Fighter)
• Riversimple Urban Car
• OpenXC
• OScar
• WIKISPEED
• OSVehicle TABBY

Cameras

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

Computer systems

Further information: Open-source computing hardware

• Ben NanoNote – handheld notebook computer based on a MIPS processor running Linux.
• Chumby – "ambient" information device
• CUBIT (multi-touch) System – Open source multitouch surface interaction system.
• Novena (computing_platform) – Open source Linux computer based on a 1.2GHz (quad-core) ARM Cortex-A9 and Xilinx FPGA
• Open Compute Project – Openly share designs of data center products (server, storage, rack, ... )
• Parallax Propeller - a multi-core microcontroller with eight 32-bit RISC cores
• SPARC – RISC instruction set architecture (ISA)
• The Bus pirate – Universal bus interface and programmer.
• USB Armory – System on a Chip (SoC) with a Freescale i.MX53 ARM® Cortex™-A8 800Mhz, 512MB DDR3 RAM and ARM® TrustZone® secure boot

Electronics

• Arduino, open source microcontroller board
• Netduino, open source microcontroller board, .NET_Micro_Framework based
• openPicus Flyport programmable modules for IoT
• PING2550 by broedsels working on Pinguino IDE

Environmental

• Air Quality Egg - Open-source platform and pollution-sensing devices for citizen crowdsourced monitoring of air quality
• OpenDesk – project to design furniture
• Open Source Ecology
• WikiHouse – Open-source project for designing and building houses.

Lighting

• LED Throwies – Non-destructive graffiti and light displays.

Machines and tools

• The RepRap Project, an open-source 3D printer/fabber
• Lyman filament extruder, which provides the filament for the RepRaps
• The Lasersaur, an open-source laser cutter
• The Multimachine, an open-source machine tool project
• Open Source Ecology "50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts."
• Shapeoko, a CNC machine kit, options include rotary tools or routers, 3D printer extruders, drag knives and laser diodes.

Medical devices

• MobilECG I and II, open-source clinical-grade electrocardiographs

Music electronics

• Arduinome
• MIDIbox The MIDIbox project is an open source modular DIY hardware and software platform for MIDI devices like controllers, synthesizers, sequencers
• Stoicheia a dual gate Euclidean sequencer

Networking

• NetFPGA is a project consisting hardware platform, software, community and education material to enable research and education effort in a line-rate network environment.

Renewable energy

• Urbolienne, an urban small wind turbine, designed by AeroSeeD under free licenses with Copyleft.
• Wind turbines: To assist people in the developing countries, and hobbyists alike, several projects have been open-sourced, e.g. the Jua Kali wind turbine, Hugh Piggot's wind turbine, ForceField Wind Turbine, et cetera

Robotics

Further information: Open-source robotics

• e-puck mobile robot, an open-hardware, education oriented, mobile robot.
• ICub
• Orb swarm
• OpenRAVE
• RobotCub
• Spykee
• The Humanoid Project
• multiplo
• OpenROV, an open-source telerobotic submarine

Telephony

• Openmoko – open phone framework (first use case: FIC Neo FreeRunner, released as of mid-2008)
• TuxPhone A project to develop open-source (hardware and software) GSM/GPRS cellphone.
• OpenBTS and OsmoBTS - Open source software based GSM base stations.
• GTA04 - successor of Openmoko

Video electronics

• Milkymist One – a video synthesizer for interactive and dance-directed VJing.
• Neuros OSD an open-source digital video recorder
• SKAARHOJ Vision mixers primarily for the Blackmagic Design ATEM video switcher series

Wireless hardware

• Openpicus – Open-source platform for smart sensors and Internet of things
• Sun SPOT is an open source hardware and 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, it has a USB 2.0 link to its host computer.
• PowWow Power Optimized Hardware and Software FrameWork for Wireless Motes is an open source hardware and software platform for wireless sensor networks.
• Twibright RONJA – Open-source free-space optic system, DIY in a garage, 10 Mbit/s full duplex/1.4 km

Repositories

• Thingiverse - a collection of primarily 3-D printable open-source designs of objects

External links

• List of open-source hardware projects at Curlie