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
  • HackRF_One

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

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

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
  • OpenRAVE
  • RobotCub – predecessor of ICub
  • Spykee
  • multiplo
  • OpenROV – telerobotic submarine
  • Thymio – robot for education

Microcontrollers

  • Freeduino – an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple I/O board and a development environment that implements the open source Processing / Wiring language. Also clones of this platform including Freeduino.
  • Tinkerforge – a platform comprising stackable microcontrollers for interfacing with sensors and other I/O devices

Components

CPUs

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
  • OpenStructures – design from furniture to house

Domotics

Machines and production tools

Land
  • Rally Fighter – made by Local Motors
  • Riversimple Urban Car
  • OpenXC
  • OScar
  • Wikispeed
  • OSVehicle Tabby[4]
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

CNC milling machines

  • Maslow CNC - an open source CNC router project notable for low cost and unique vertical design

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[4]

Satellite

  • UPSat

Partially open-source hardware

Hardware that uses closed source components

Single-board computers

  • Tinkerforge RED Brick, executes user programs and controls other Bricks/Bricklets standalone
ARM
ATMega
Motorola 68000 series
National Semiconductor NS320xx series
RISC-V
  • HiFive1 is an Arduino-compatible development kit featuring the Freedom E310, the industry's first commercially available RISC-V SoC[7]
  • HiFive Unleashed is a Linux development platform for SiFive’s Freedom U540 SoC, the world’s first 4+1 64-bit multi-core Linux-capable RISC-V SoC."[8]

Notebook computers

Handhelds, palmtops, and smartphones

Instruction sets

Organisations

  • Bug Labs, a US technology company that began by developing and selling open-source hardware peripherals for rapid prototyping of electronics
  • LowRISC, a not-for-profit organization that aims to develop open hardware
  • M-Labs, developers of the Milkymist system on a chip
  • Open Compute Project, an organization for sharing designs of data center products among companies
  • Open Graphics Project, a project that aims to design a standard open architecture for graphics cards
  • OpenCores, a loose community of designers that supports open-source cores (logic designs) for CPUs, peripherals and other devices. OpenCores maintains an open-source on-chip interconnection bus specification called Wishbone
  • OpenRISC is a group of developers working to produce a very-high-performance open-source RISC CPU.

See also

References

  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. "Twibright Labs - Ronja".
  3. "ZPU - the worlds [sic] smallest 32 bit CPU with GCC toolchain :: Overview". OpenCores.
  4. 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
  6. Katherine Noyes. "Tiny $57 PC is like the Raspberry Pi, but faster and fully open". PCWorld. 2012.
  7. "HiFive1: Open Source, Arduino-Compatible RISC-V Dev Kit". Crowd Supply. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  8. "SiFive HiFive Unleashed Getting Started Guide" (PDF). SiFive. SiFive, Inc. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  9. "Novena". Crowd Supply.
  10. "The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale". Wired. 2 April 2014.
  11. "Novena Helps Hackers Build Their Own Laptop". 2 April 2014.
  12. Holbrook, Stett (2 April 2014). "The World's First Open Source Laptop Makes Its Debut". Make. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  13. "J-Core Open Processor". Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  14. j-core Design Walkthrough (PDF). Embedded Linux Conference. San Diego. 6 April 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
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