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

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

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
  • TKey[2] – TKey is a secure environment for applications that provide a security function. This includes Time-based one-time password (TOTP) token generators, Signing oracles, Secure random numbers, Encryption, 2FA and even the possibility to store SSH Keys.

Robotics

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

Renewable energy

Lighting and LED

  • LED Throwies – nondestructive graffiti and light displays

Neither electronic nor mechanical

Architecture and design

Domotics

Machines and production tools

Automotive

Complete vehicles

Land
Airplanes

Engine control units

  • SECU-3 – gasoline engine control unit

Electric vehicle chargers

3D printers and scanners

Other hardware

Science

Medical devices

Scientific hardware

  • Open-Source Lab – documents dozens of scientific tools, but is closed-source itself
  • OpenBCI – EEG amplifier[5]
  • Sinara Open-Hardware - ecosystem of 3U modules for advanced physics experiments

Satellite

Partially open-source hardware

Hardware that uses closed source components

Computers

Single-board computers

  • Tinkerforge RED Brick, executes user programs and controls other Bricks/Bricklets standalone
ARM
ATMega
  • Arduino – open-source microcontroller board
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[8]
  • 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."[9]
  • HiFive Unmatched is a mini-ITX motherboard that features "a SiFive FU740 processor coupled with 8 GB DDR4 memory and 32 MB SPI Flash. It comes with a 4x USB 3.2 ports and a 16x PCIe expansion slot."[10]

Notebook computers

Handhelds, palmtops, and smartphones

Related

Instruction sets

Organisations

See also

References

  1. "The dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of the world's most revolutionary phone" (in en-US). 2017-01-10. https://venturebeat.com/2017/01/10/inside-project-ara-googles-revolutionary-modular-phone/. 
  2. TKey Tillitis. Retrieved 02 July 2023
  3. "Twibright Labs - Ronja". http://ronja.twibright.com. 
  4. "ZPU - the worlds [sic smallest 32 bit CPU with GCC toolchain :: Overview"]. OpenCores. http://opencores.org/project,zpu. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Cicero, Simone (27 December 2013). "10 of the Most Incredible Open Source Hardware Projects Born in 2013". Futura Group. http://www.open-electronics.org/10-of-the-most-incredible-open-source-hardware-projects-born-in-2013/. 
  6. OpenEV
  7. Katherine Noyes. "Tiny $57 PC is like the Raspberry Pi, but faster and fully open". PCWorld. 2012.
  8. "HiFive1: Open Source, Arduino-Compatible RISC-V Dev Kit". https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive1. 
  9. "SiFive HiFive Unleashed Getting Started Guide". SiFive, Inc.. https://static.dev.sifive.com/HiFive-Unleashed-Getting-Started-Guide-v1p1.pdf. Retrieved 13 April 2018. 
  10. "SiFive launches HiFive Unmatched mini-ITX motherboard for RISC-V PC's". 30 October 2020. https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/30/sifive-launches-hifive-unmatched-mini-itx-motherboard-for-risc-v-pcs/. Retrieved 4 May 2021. 
  11. "Novena". Crowd Supply. https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop. 
  12. "The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale". 2 April 2014. https://www.wired.com/2014/04/novena/. 
  13. "Novena Helps Hackers Build Their Own Laptop". 2 April 2014. http://blog.laptopmag.com/novena-open-source-laptop. 
  14. Holbrook, Stett (April 2, 2014). "The World's First Open Source Laptop Makes Its Debut". http://makezine.com/2014/04/02/the-worlds-first-open-source-laptop-makes-its-debut/. 
  15. "J-Core Open Processor". http://j-core.org/. Retrieved Jun 19, 2016. 
  16. "j-core Design Walkthrough". Embedded Linux Conference. San Diego. 6 April 2016. http://j-core.org/talks/ELC-2016.pdf. Retrieved Jun 19, 2016. 

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