List of open-source hardware projects
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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[edit]
Amateur radio[edit]
Audio electronics[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Milkymist One – video synthesizer for interactive and dance-directed VJing
- Neuros OSD – digital video recorder
Networking[edit]
- NetFPGA – hardware platform, software, community, and education material to enable research and education effort in a line-rate network environment
Wireless networking[edit]
- 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[edit]
Cameras[edit]
- AXIOM – digital cinema camera built by apertus° community
- Elphel, Inc. – cameras based on free hardware–software designs
Computer systems[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Nitrokey – USB key for data and email encryption and strong authentication
Robotics[edit]
- 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[edit]
Renewable energy[edit]
Lighting and LED[edit]
- LED Throwies – nondestructive graffiti and light displays
Neither electronic nor mechanical[edit]
Architecture and design[edit]
- WikiHouse – project to design and build houses
- Opendesk – furniture project
- OpenStructures – design from furniture to house
Domotics[edit]
Machines and production tools[edit]
Automotive[edit]
Complete vehicles[edit]
Land[edit]
- Rally Fighter – made by Local Motors
- Riversimple Urban Car
- OpenXC
- OScar
- Wikispeed
- OSVehicle Tabby[3]
Airplanes[edit]
Engine control units[edit]
- SECU-3 – gasoline engine control unit
Electric vehicle chargers[edit]
3D printers and scanners[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Medical devices[edit]
- Open Prosthetics Project – design of open-source prosthetics
- Open-source ventilator
Scientific hardware[edit]
- Open-Source Lab – documents dozens of scientific tools, but is closed-source itself
- OpenBCI – EEG amplifier[3]
Satellite[edit]
See also[edit]
- Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs (2014)
- Thingiverse, open-source designs of objects, many of which are 3D-printable
References[edit]
- ^ "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