List of open-source hardware projects

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 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
• open-source mobile phones#Custom-made phones|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, 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
• Micro Bit — ARM-based embedded 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 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
• 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
• MIPS – a reduced instruction set computer 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
• 'Faire Computermaus' / 'fairtrade computer mice' by Fair IT yourself e. V.

  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
• Python Robotics
• Thymio – robot for education
• TurtleBot

  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 optical communication|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
• Voron Design – nonprofit organization developing specifications for 3D printers, including the Voron 0.2, Voron 2.4, and Voron Trident

  CNC milling machines

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

  Other hardware

• Open Source Ecology's Global Village Construction Set – 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

  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

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
• 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
• Parallella single-board computer with a manycore coprocessor and field-programmable gate array

  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.

  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
• uConsole, a handheld computer kit supporting Raspberry Pi and RISC-V modules

  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 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.