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Awesome Open Hardware Awesome

🛠 Helpful items for making and learning about 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.
  • Mekanika - Tools and machines for makers.
  • Millennium Machines - A project dedicated to designing desktop CNC mills.
  • Open Source Ecology - Industrial machines made open.
  • Opulo - Project that develops a pick and place machine.
  • Precious Plastic - Tools to make plastic recycling as simple as possible.
  • Prusa3D - 3D printer manufacturer who shares their work open online.
  • RepRap - Humanity's first general-purpose, self-replicating manufacturing machine.
  • VORON Design - No-compromise 3D printer designs.
  • WikiHouse - Digital designed open housing.

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.
  • PiSpot Watch - Wrist-wearable Raspberry Pi Zero smartwatch with e-ink display that generates Wi-Fi voucher codes on demand.
  • SlimeVR - Full-body tracking sensors for virtual reality and motion capture.
  • Winterbloom - Eurorack modules; Thea has some stellar design write-ups on her blog.

Development Boards

  • Arduino - Arduino is an electronics platform.
  • OpenMV - Low-cost machine vision platform.
  • pic0rick - A Raspberry Pi Pico platform for pulse-echo ultrasound imaging hardware.

Scientific Instruments

  • Biohack Academy - Biotechnological hardware such as an incubator, thermocycler, centrifuge, microscope, etc.
  • GaudiLab - Hardware projects for biology laboratories.
  • 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.

Talks

Papers

Conferences

  • FOSDEM - Annual open source event in Brussels.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Kitspace.org - A place to build and share electronics projects.

Podcasts

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

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.
  • 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.

Contributing

Additional suggestions are welcomed! Check out contributing.md for guidelines. If you ever want to reference us, find us at delftopenhardware.nl. But you are in no way required to do so. (NOTE: If you're a maintainer listed on here who would like to be removed, just open an issue.)