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Awesome Open Hardware

🛠Helpful items for making open source hardware projects.

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Projects >Automation, Manufacturing, and Robotics

FarmBot

Automated gardening machine to grow vegetables.

Hacker Fab

Nanofabrication tools for making integrated circuits.

JPL Open Source Rover

A six wheeled, build-it-yourself, open-source rover.

In 4 lists

Mekanika

Tools and machines for makers.

Millennium Machines

A project dedicated to designing desktop CNC mills.

Open Source Ecology

Industrial machines made open.

In 2 lists

Opulo

Project that develops a pick and place machine.

Precious Plastic

Tools to make plastic recycling as simple as possible.

In 2 lists

Prusa3D

3D printer manufacturer who shares their work open online.

In 2 lists

RepRap

Humanity's first general-purpose, self-replicating manufacturing machine.

VORON Design

No-compromise 3D printer designs.

WikiHouse

Digital designed open housing.

Projects >Consumer Devices

freeDSP

A family of audio digital signal processors.

Input Labs

Video game controllers featuring gyroscopic sensors.

Mutable Instruments

Eurorack classics.

PiKVM

Inexpensive DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi.

PiSpot Show

Raspberry Pi appliance that drives HDMI displays as self-updating Wi-Fi voucher kiosks with live weather.

In 4 listsDetails

PiSpot Watch

Wrist-wearable Raspberry Pi Zero smartwatch with e-ink display that generates Wi-Fi voucher codes on demand.

In 3 lists

Ploopy

3D-printable peripherals running the QMK firmware.

SlimeVR

Full-body tracking sensors for virtual reality and motion capture.

Winterbloom

Eurorack modules; Thea has some stellar design write-ups on her blog.

Projects >Development Boards

Arduino

Arduino is an electronics platform.

In 6 listsDetails

iCEBreaker

Low-cost FPGA development board based around the Lattice iCE40.

Icepi Zero

A Lattice ECP5-based FPGA development board in the form factor of the Raspberry Pi Zero.

nRF52840 ProMicro

A Nordic nRF52840-based development board in the form factor of the Arduino Pro Micro.

OpenMV

Low-cost machine vision platform.

In 2 lists

pic0rick

A Raspberry Pi Pico platform for pulse-echo ultrasound imaging hardware.

Projects >Scientific Instruments

Biohack Academy

Biotechnological hardware such as an incubator, thermocycler, centrifuge, microscope, etc.

GaudiLab

Hardware projects for biology laboratories.

HackRF Pro

Upgraded version of the HackRF One, a low-cost software-defined radio.

LibreVNA

A vector network analyzer capable of measurements up to 6 GHz.

mesoSPIM

Light-sheet microscopes for imaging in cleared tissue.

Open Gamma Detector

Hackable, low-cost gamma-ray spectrometer.

OpenBCI

Brain-computer interface.

OpenFlexure

3D-printed microscope with a precise mechanical stage.

OpenSPIM

Open-access platform for three-dimensional (3D) microscopy.

openUC2

Modular microscopy toolbox.

SafeCast

Environmental measurements for the public domain.

Design Tools >Mechanical and Electrical

Elmer

A software suite for running finite element method simulations.

FreeCAD

A mechanical computer-aided design program for designing 3D parametric parts.

In 4 lists

Jumpstarter

Open source hardware-in-the-loop testing framework for automated testing on real and virtual hardware with CI/CD integration.

In 7 listsDetails

KiCad

An electronic design automation program for designing printed circuit boards.

In 2 lists

KiCad StepUp

A mechanical collaboration tool for moving projects between KiCad and FreeCAD.

Ngspice

A mixed-signal electronic circuit simulator.

Design Tools >Integrated Circuit

KLayout

A tool for viewing and editing integrated circuit layouts.

LibreLane

An infrastructure library for creating integrated circuit design flows.

Magic

A VLSI layout tool, primarily used for analog layout.

OpenRAM

A framework for creating SRAM netlists, layouts, and more.

OpenROAD

An application that implements an RTL-to-GDSII flow.

SkyWater PDK

A process design kit for SkyWater's 130 nm process node.

Surfer

An extensible and snappy waveform viewer.

Verilator

A program for simulating HDL code.

In 2 lists

Yosys

A framework for RTL synthesis.

Talks

How Open Hardware will Take Over the World

TEDx talk by Nathan Seidle.

Revolution of the open hardware

TEDx talk by Bram Geenen.

Why do open hardware

Talk by Limor Fried (ladyada).

Get your open hardware manufactured

Tips by Ian of Dangerous Prototypes.

Open Hardware Projects to Fight COVID-19

Collection video from N-O-D-E.

Designing Open Hardware for 21st century science

Presentation by Andre Maia Chagas.

Why open source hardware is(n't) working

Presentation by David Cuartielles.

Open source and the future of hardware

Talk by Neil Gershenfeld.

On behalf of mankind: thank you for sharing!

TEDx talk by Jerry de Vos.

Papers

What is the “Source” of Open Source Hardware?

Paper by Jérémy Bonvoisin, Robert Mies, Jean-François Boujut, Rainer Stark.

Emerging Business Models for Open Source Hardware

Paper by Joshua M. Pearce.

Towards national policy for open source hardware research: The case of Finland

Paper by I. T. S. Heikkinen, H. Savin, J. Partanen, J. SeppäläJ, M. Pearce.

Open-Source Hardware in Education: A Systematic Mapping Study

Paper by Ruben Heradio, Jesus Chacon, Hector Vargas, Daniel Galan, Jacobo Saenz, Luis De La Torre, Sebastian Dormido.

Haves and have nots must find a better way: The case for open scientific hardware

Paper by Andre Maia Chagas

Open Labware: 3-D Printing Your Own Lab Equipment

Paper by Tom Baden, Andre Maia Chagas, Greg Gage, Timothy Marzullo, Lucia L. Prieto-Godino, Thomas Euler

Conferences

FOSDEM

Annual open source event in Brussels.

In 4 lists

Open Hardware Summit

Annual conference on open hardware.

Open Sauce

Annual convention focused on science and technology on on 17-19 July

Maker Faire

A celebration of the Maker Movement, locally organized.

Hackaday Supercon

Annual conference on hardware hacking and deep-dive technical workshops

KiCon

Annual conferences about KiCad open source EDA organized in different regions

RISC-V Summits

Annual summits organized by RISC-V International in different regions

World RISC-V Days

Synchronized global events voluntarily organized by RISC-V communities worldwide

Latch-Up

A three-day conference dedicated to free and open source silicon. Hosted in North America every spring.

ORConf

Another three-day conference dedicated to free and open source silicon. Hosted in Europe every autumn.

Platforms

Open Hardware Repository

For electronics designers at experimental physics facilities to collaborate on open hardware designs.

Open Hardware Observatory

Free blueprints for sustainable open hardware.

In 2 lists

Instructables

Instructables is a place that lets you explore, document, and share your creations.

Hackaday.io

Hackaday.io is the world's largest collaborative hardware development community.

In 2 lists

Hackster.io

Connecting developers where exploring tomorrow starts today.

Openhardware.io

Tracking amazing open hardware projects.

Openhardware.science

Make open science hardware ubiquitous by 2025.

Openlifescience

Program to make Open Science ambassadors in research.

Thingiverse

A platform for sharing and contributing to design hardware for 3D printing, laser cutting and CNC milling.

In 3 lists

Kitspace.org

A place to build and share electronics projects.

In 2 lists

BoardRepo

Share KiCad and Altium projects as a link, with schematics, PCB views, BOM, and gerbers rendered in the browser.

Podcasts

Road to Open Science

Episode on open hardware in the Netherlands.

Physics Worlds

Episode on the global impact of open hardware.

Command Line Heroes

Episode Makers unite.

A-podcast

Open source hardware is the future.

Amp hour

Open Hardware and The Creative Economy.

Semiconductor Insiders

Open Hardware Diversity Alliance.

Open source hardware podcast

By the Programming Electronics Academy.

Books

Building open source hardware

Book by Alicia Gibb, on building open source hardware from 2014.

Open-source Lab

Book by Josua M. Pearce, how to build your own hardware and reduce costs.

Free to Make

Book by Dale Dougherty, how the maker movement is changing our schools, our jobs, and our minds.

The bridge

Issue of the national academy of engineering on open source hardware.

The Hardware Hacker

Book by Andrew "bunnie" Huang, how to design and manufacture open hardware products.

Training Programs

Open Hardware Makers

Open Hardware Academy

Further Readings

Open Source Guide

A website created by GitHub to help people work on open source projects.

Wikipedia

General information about open-source hardware.

Open Collective

Enables groups to quickly set up a collective, raise funds and manage them transparently.

In 2 lists

The Journal of Open Hardware

(JOH) is a peer reviewed open access publication for open hardware research and development.

OSHWA Certification

Provides an easy and straightforward way for producers to indicate that their products meet a uniform and well-defined standard for open-source compliance.

HardwareX Journal

An open-access scientific hardware journal.

Awesome Open Electronics

List with resources for Electronics Enthusiasts.

Awesome Open

A list of open companies and communities.

In 2 lists

Awesome Electronics

A curated list of awesome resources for electronic engineers and hobbyists.

In 2 listsDetails
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Awesome Electronics

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Awesome LIDAR

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😎 Awesome LIDAR list. The list includes LIDAR manufacturers, datasets, point cloud-processing algorithms, point cloud frameworks and simulators.

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Awesome IoT

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