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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


Amateur radio

* Homebrew D-STAR Radio *
HackRF_One HackRF One is a wide band software defined radio (SDR) half-duplex transceiver created and manufactured by Great Scott Gadgets. It is able to send and receive signals. Its principal designer, Michael Ossmann, launched a successful Kickstarter campai ...


Audio electronics

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Monome Monome is an Upstate New York-based company, founded by Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain, that produces sound modules and MIDI controllers. Monome is also the name of their initial product, a grid-based controller that is now sometimes simply refer ...
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 An Arduinome is a MIDI controller device that mimics the Monome using the Arduino physical computing platform. The plans for the Arduinome are released under an open source, non-commercial use only license. The Arduinome platform is noted for p ...
* MIDIbox – modular DIY hardware–software platform for
MIDI MIDI (; Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and ...
devices including controllers, synthesizers, sequencers


Telephony

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Openmoko Openmoko is a discontinued project to create a family of Open-source model, open source mobile phones, including the hardware specification, the operating system (Openmoko Linux), and actual smartphone development implementation like the Neo 19 ...
– phone framework (first use case: First International Computer (FIC)
Neo FreeRunner Openmoko is a discontinued project to create a family of open source mobile phones, including the hardware specification, the operating system ( Openmoko Linux), and actual smartphone development implementation like the Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRun ...
, released as of mid-2008 *
OpenBTS OpenBTS (Open Base Transceiver Station) is a software-based GSM access point, allowing standard GSM-compatible mobile phones to be used as SIP endpoints in Voice over IP (VoIP) networks. OpenBTS is open-source software developed and maintained by ...
and OsmoBTS – software-based GSM base stations * Project Aramodular design,
hot swapping Hot swapping is the replacement or addition of components to a computer system without stopping, shutting down, or rebooting the system; hot plugging describes the addition of components only. Components which have such functionality are said ...
pluggable mobile phone; due to enter trial production in 2015, but was suspended in 2016 * PiPhone and ZeroPhone * Telecom Infra Project – collaborative Open Compute Project focusing on
optical Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultravio ...
broadband networks and open cellular networks to create global access * PinePhone – developed by computer manufacturer
Pine64 Pine Store Limited, known by its trade name Pine64 (styled as PINE64), is a Hong Kongbased organization that designs, manufactures, and sells single-board computers, notebook computers, a smartwatch, and smartphones. Its name was inspired f ...
, 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 VJing (pronounced: ''VEE-JAY-ing'') is a broad designation for realtime visual performance. Characteristics of VJing are the creation or manipulation of imagery in realtime through technological mediation and for an audience, in synchronization ...
* 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 RONJA (Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access) is a free-space optical communication system originating in the Czech Republic, developed by Karel Kulhavý of Twibright Labs and released in 2001. It transmits data wirelessly using beams of light ...
– 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 A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25. Most of the artificial objects in outer space are in LEO, with an altitude never mor ...
satellite ground station A ground station, Earth station, or Earth terminal is a terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft (constituting part of the ground segment of the spacecraft system), or reception of radio waves fro ...
, including for data and Internet


Electronics


Cameras

* AXIOM
digital cinema camera A digital movie camera for digital cinematography is a video camera that captures footage digitally rather than the historically used movie camera, which shoots on film stock. Different digital movie cameras output a variety of different acquisit ...
built by apertus° community * Elphel, Inc. – cameras based on free hardware–software designs


Computer systems

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Arduino Arduino () is an open-source hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardware products are licensed under ...
– open-source
microcontroller board A single-board microcontroller is a microcontroller built onto a single printed circuit board. This board provides all of the circuitry necessary for a useful control task: a microprocessor, I/O circuits, a clock generator, RAM, stored program m ...
* Chumby – information '' ambient device'' *
CUBIT The cubit is an ancient unit of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It was primarily associated with the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Israelites. The term ''cubit'' is found in the Bible regarding ...
– multitouch surface-interaction system *
Libre Computer Project The Libre Computer Project is an effort initiated by Shenzhen Libre Technology Co., Ltd., with the goal of producing standards-compliant single-board computers (SBC) and upstream software stack to power them. Hardware Libre Computer Project ...
– open-source, open-hardware single-board_computers * Netduinomicrocontroller board,
.NET Micro Framework The .NET Micro Framework (NETMF) is a .NET Framework platform for resource-constrained devices with at least 512  kB of flash and 256 kB of random-access memory (RAM). It includes a small version of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR ...
based * NodeMCU
Wi-Fi Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols, based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio wav ...
microcontroller board * Novena – an ARM based computer built by Andrew Huang and associates * OpenPOWERPower ISA, an open-source hardware instruction set architecture ( ISA) initiated by IBM * OpenSPARC – Sun's, later Oracle's high-performance processor *
Parallax Propeller The Parallax P8X32A Propeller is a multi-core processor parallel computer architecture microcontroller chip with eight 32-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) central processing unit (CPU) cores. Introduced in 2006, it is designed and sold ...
– a multi-core microcontroller with eight 32-bit RISC cores * Parallellasingle-board computer with a manycore coprocessor and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) *
Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi () is a series of small single-board computers (SBCs) developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in association with Broadcom. The Raspberry Pi project originally leaned towards the promotion of teaching basic ...
– a series of small single-board computers developed in the
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
by the
Raspberry Pi Foundation The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a British charity and company founded in 2009 to promote the study of basic computer science in schools, and is responsible for developing the Raspberry Pi single-board computers. Foundation The Raspberry Pi Foun ...
in association with
Broadcom Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wirel ...
* SparkFun Electronicsmicrocontroller development boards, breakout boards * The Bus Pirate – universal bus interface and programmer * Turris Omnia – open-source SOHO network router *
RISC-V RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five" where five refers to the number of generations of RISC architecture that were developed at the University of California, Berkeley since 1981) is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on estab ...
– 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 Arduino () is an open-source hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardware products are licensed under ...
-based drone *
e-puck mobile robot The e-puck is a small (7 cm) differential wheeled mobile robot. It was originally designed for micro-engineering education by Michael Bonani and Francesco Mondada at the ASL laboratory of Prof. Roland Siegwart at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerl ...
mobile robot A mobile robot is an automatic machine that is capable of locomotion.Hu, J.; Bhowmick, P.; Lanzon, A.,Group Coordinated Control of Networked Mobile Robots with Applications to Object Transportation IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2021 ...
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 * OpenROVtelerobotic submarine *
Thymio Thymio II is an educational robot in the 100 Euros price range. The robot was developed at the EPFL in collaboration with ECAL, both in Lausanne, Switzerland. A purely-visual programming language was developed at ETH Zurich . All components, bo ...
– 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 turbine A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. Hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, now generate over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each yea ...
s


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


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Rally Fighter The Rally Fighter is an American automobile manufactured by Local Motors and introduced in 2009. It is the first car to be developed using co-creation design. The exterior design was submitted by Sangho Kim and selected through community votes. ...
– made by
Local Motors Local Motors was an American motor vehicle manufacturing company focused on low-volume manufacturing of open-source motor vehicle designs using multiple microfactories. It was founded in 2007 by John B. Rogers Jr and had headquarters in Phoenix ...
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Riversimple Urban Car The Riversimple Urban Car is a conceptual open source hydrogen fuel cell vehicle that was proposed by Hugo Spowers' company, Riversimple, in 2009. Their latest model, the Rasa, was unveiled on 17 February 2016. A working prototype vehicle was ...
* OpenXC *
OScar Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People * Oscar (given name), an Irish- and English-language name also used in other languages; the article includes the names Oskar, Oskari, Oszkár, Óscar, and other forms. * Oscar (Irish mythology) ...
* Wikispeed * OSVehicle Tabby


=Airplanes

= * MakerPlane


Engine control units

* SECU-3 – gasoline engine control unit


Electric vehicle chargers

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OpenEVSE OpenEVSE is an Arduino-based charging station created by Christopher Howell and Sam C. Lin. The charger is composed of open-source software and hardware which can be made DIY. History The project started in February 2011 with a simple experiment ...
– charger for electric carsOpenEV
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3D printers and scanners

* RepRap project3D printer-fabber; recyclebots, like the Lyman filament extruder, provide the filament for RepRaps * LulzBot
3D printer 3D printing or additive manufacturing is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer co ...
design by Aleph Objects; is '' Respects Your Freedom'' certified by the Free Software Foundation


Other hardware

* Multimachine
machine tool A machine tool is a machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformations. Machine tools employ some sort of tool that does the cutting or shaping. All ...
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 Defense Distributed is an online open-source hardware organization that develops digital schematics of firearms in CAD files, or "wiki weapons", that may be downloaded from the Internet and used in 3D printing or CNC milling applications. Among ...
/ Liberator (gun) :* Charon (gun) :* FGC-9 (gun)


Science


Medical devices

* Open Prosthetics Project – design of open-source
prosthetics In medicine, a prosthesis (plural: prostheses; from grc, πρόσθεσις, prósthesis, addition, application, attachment), or a prosthetic implant, is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trau ...
* Open-source ventilator


Scientific hardware

* ''Open-Source Lab'' – documents dozens of scientific tools, but is closed-source itself * OpenBCI
EEG Electroencephalography (EEG) is a method to record an electrogram of the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain. The biosignals detected by EEG have been shown to represent the postsynaptic potentials of pyramidal neurons in the neocortex ...
amplifier


Satellite

* UPSat


See also

* ''Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs'' (2014) *
Thingiverse Thingiverse is a website dedicated to the sharing of user-created digital design files. Providing primarily free, open-source hardware designs licensed under the GNU General Public License or Creative Commons licenses, the site allows contributors ...
, open-source designs of objects, many of which are 3D-printable


References


External links

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