List of open-source hardware projects

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
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
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
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
TKey – 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
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
Ethernut, embedded Ethernet adapters
IOIO, a board that allows Android applications to interface with external electronics
PLAICE, a device that combines a flash memory programmer, in-circuit emulation, and a multichannel logic analyzer. It runs uClinux.
Twibrigh RONJA, a 10 Mbit/s full duplex FSO wireless optical network adapter from 2001
CPUs
Amber is an ARM-compatible 32-bit RISC processor. Amber implements the ARMv2 instruction set.
LEON, a 32-bit, SPARC-like CPU created by the European Space Agency
OpenPOWER, based on IBM's POWER8 and newer multicore processor designs
OpenSPARC, a series of open-source microprocessors based on the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 multicore processor designs
Parallax P8X32A Propeller is a multicore microcontroller with an emphasis on general-purpose use
ZPU, a small, portable CPU core with a GCC toolchain. It is designed to be compiled targeting FPGA
Zet (hardware), x86 implementation on programmable logic
OpenRISC 1200, an implementation of the open source OpenRISC 1000 RISC architecture
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
Rally Fighter – made by Local Motors
Riversimple Urban Car
OpenXC
OScar
Wikispeed
OSVehicle Tabby
Airplanes
MakerPlane
Engine control units
SECU-3 – gasoline engine control unit
Electric vehicle chargers
OpenEVSE – charger for electric cars
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
Sinara Open-Hardware - ecosystem of 3U modules for advanced physics experiments
Satellite
UPSat
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
Banana Pi, uses low-power processors with an ARM core; runs Linux, Android, and OpenWRT
BeagleBoard, uses low-power Texas Instruments processors with an ARM Cortex-A8 core; runs Ångström distribution (Linux)
IGEPv2, an ARM OMAP 3-based board designed and manufactured by ISEE in Spain. Its expansion boards are also open-source.
OLinuXino, designed with KiCad by OLIMEX Ltd in Bulgaria
PandaBoard, a variation of the BeagleBoard
Rascal, an ARM based Linux board that works with Arduino shields, with a web server that includes an editor for users to program it in Python. Hardware design files released under the Creative Commons BY-SA license.
96Boards (includes but not limited to, DragonBoard 410c, HiKey, HiKey960, Bubblegum-96 and more...)
Parallella single-board computer with a manycore coprocessor and field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
ATMega
Arduino – open-source microcontroller board
Motorola 68000 series
Minimig – a re-implementation of an Amiga 500 using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA).
National Semiconductor NS320xx series
PC532, a personal computer design released in 1990, based on the NS32532 microprocessor
RISC-V
HiFive1 is an Arduino-compatible development kit featuring the Freedom E310, the industry's first commercially available RISC-V SoC
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."
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."
Notebook computers
Novena, a notebook computer that uses a 1.2 GHz quad-core Freescale processor closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA
VIA OpenBook, a netbook case design released by VIA Technologies
Handhelds, palmtops, and smartphones
Ben NanoNote, a palmtop PC based on the MIPS architecture
Openmoko, a smartphone containing a single-board computer equipped with a GSM/UMTS modem
Simputer, a handheld computer released in 2002
Related
Instruction sets
J-Core, an implementation of the SuperH with some extensions
MIPS
Power, which originated from IBM's POWER ISA
RISC-V, a RISC ISA that originated in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley
SPARC
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
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
Open-source hardware
List of open-source first-person shooters
List of open-source mobile phones
List of open-source video games
Open-source robotics
Modular smartphone
Open Source Ecology
Telecom Infra Project
References
External links
Open modular hardware
h-node, a hardware database compiled by the FSF to identify devices that work with a fully free operating system
Computing-related lists
Hacker culture