List of open-source hardware projects

Communications

Amateur radio

• Homebrew D-STAR 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

• 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 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

  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 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
• SparkFun Electronics – microcontroller development boards, breakout boards
• The Bus Pirate – universal bus interface and programmer
• Turris Omnia – open-source SOHO network router
• UDOO – open source, open hardware single board computers
• 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

  Robotics

• ArduCopter – Arduino-based drone
• e-puck mobile robot – mobile robot designed for education
• ICub – 1 metre high humanoid robot
• IOIO – a board that allows Android applications to interface with external electronics
• Orb swarm – art spherical robots
• OpenRAVE
• RobotCub – predecessor of ICub
• Spykee
• multiplo
• OpenROV – telerobotic submarine
• Thymio – robot for education
• Tinkerforge – a platform comprising stackable microcontrollers for interfacing with sensors and other I/O devices

  Environmental

• Air Quality Egg – platform and pollution-sensing devices for citizen crowdsource monitoring of air quality
• 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.

  Marine

• Tecnico Solar Boat – completely open-source electric boat.

  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 – 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

  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