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
 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)
 Pinebook – Notebook from Pine64
 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
 System76 Launch – US-manufactured Mechanical keyboard line designed and built by System76 with open-source firmware

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
 System76 Thelio Io — System76 Thelio desktops use an open-source daughterboard to control thermals and other functions. This is a step toward building a fully open-source computer and give users full control over their hardware.

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
 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
 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

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

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

Desktop computers
 Thelio — Desktop computers manufactured in the US by System76

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."

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

 
Computing-related lists
Hacker culture