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

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
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^[4]

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)
FGC-9 (gun)

Science

Medical devices

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

Scientific hardware

Open-Source Lab – documents dozens of scientific tools, but is closed-source itself
OpenBCI – EEG amplifier^[3]

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.
^ ^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.

[Cicero-3] 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.

[4] OpenEV

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