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open-source hardware Open-source hardware (OSH, OSHW) consists of physical artifact (software development), artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open-design movement. Both free and open-source software (FOSS) and open-source hardware are created by th ...
projects, including computer systems and components, cameras, radio, telephony, science education, machines and tools, robotics,
renewable energy Renewable energy (also called green energy) is energy made from renewable resource, renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human lifetime, human timescale. The most widely used renewable energy types are solar energy, wind pow ...
, 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 Musical Instrument Digital Interface (; MIDI) is an American-Japanese technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, ...
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 Modular design, or modularity in design, is a design principle that subdivides a system into smaller parts called ''modules'' (such as modular process skids), which can be independently created, modified, replaced, or exchanged with other modules ...
,
hot swapping Hot swapping is the replacement or addition of components to a computer system without stopping, shutting down, or rebooting the system. Hot plugging describes only the addition of components to a running computer system. Components which ha ...
pluggable mobile phone; due to enter trial production in 2015, but was suspended in 2016 * PiPhone and ZeroPhone *
Telecom Infra Project The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) was formed in 2016 as an engineering-focused, collaborative methodology for building and deploying global telecom network infrastructure, with the goal of enabling global access for all. TIP is jointly steered by i ...
– collaborative Open Compute Project focusing on
optical Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultravio ...
broadband networks and open
cellular network A cellular network or mobile network is a telecommunications network where the link to and from end nodes is wireless network, wireless and the network is distributed over land areas called ''cells'', each served by at least one fixed-locatio ...
s to create global access * PinePhone – developed by computer manufacturer
Pine64 Pine Store Limited, Trade_name, doing business as Pine64 (styled as PINE64), is a Hong Kong-based organization that designs, manufactures, and sells single-board computers, notebook computers, as well as smartwatch/smartphones. Its name was insp ...
, intended for allowing the user to have full hardware and software control over the device, released as of end-2019


Video electronics

*
Milkymist M-Labs (formerly known as the Milkymist Project) is a company that develops, manufactures, and sells open hardware devices and software. It is known for the Milkymist system-on-chip, System-On-Chip (SoC) which is a commercialized system-on-chip w ...
One – video synthesizer for interactive and dance-directed
VJing VJing (pronounced: ''VEE-JAY-ing'') is a broad designation for realtime visual performance. Characteristics of VJing are the creation or manipulation of imagery in realtime through technological mediation and for an audience, in synchronization ...
* Neuros OSD – digital video recorder


Networking

*
NetFPGA The NetFPGA project is an effort to develop open-source hardware and software for rapid prototyping of computer network devices. The project targeted academic researchers, industry users, and students. It was not the first platform of its kind in th ...
– hardware platform, software, community, and education material to enable research and education effort in a line-rate network environment


Wireless networking

*
OpenPicus OpenPicus was an Italian hardware company launched in 2011 that designed and produced Internet of Things system on modules called Flyport. Flyport is open hardware and the openPicus framework and IDE are open software. Flyport is a stand-alone ...
– platform for smart sensors and
Internet of things Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communication networks. The IoT encompasse ...
* Sun SPOT – hardware–software platform for
sensor network Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental ...
s 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 A powwow (also pow wow or pow-wow) is a gathering with dances held by many Native Americans in the United States, Native American and First Nations in Canada, First Nations communities. Inaugurated in 1923, powwows today are an opportunity fo ...
Power Optimized Hardware and Software FrameWork for Wireless Motes – hardware–software platform for
wireless sensor network Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental ...
s * Twibright RONJA – free-space optic system, 10 Mbit/s full duplex/1.4 km * SatNOGS – software-hardware project of a global
low Earth orbit A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an geocentric orbit, orbit around Earth with a orbital period, period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an orbital eccentricity, eccentricity less than 0.25. Most of the artificial object ...
satellite ground station A ground station, Earth station, or Earth terminal is a terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft (constituting part of the ground segment of the spacecraft system), or reception of radio waves fro ...
, including for data and Internet


Electronics


Cameras

*
AXIOM An axiom, postulate, or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments. The word comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning 'that which is thought worthy or ...
digital cinema camera built by apertus° community * Elphel, Inc. – cameras based on free hardware–software designs


Computer systems

*
Arduino Arduino () is an Italian open-source hardware and open-source software, software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardwar ...
– open-source microcontroller board * Chumby – information '' ambient device'' *
CUBIT The cubit is an ancient unit of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It was primarily associated with the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Israelites. The term ''cubit'' is found in the Bible regarding Noah ...
– multitouch surface-interaction system * Netduino
microcontroller A microcontroller (MC, uC, or μC) or microcontroller unit (MCU) is a small computer on a single integrated circuit. A microcontroller contains one or more CPUs (processor cores) along with memory and programmable input/output peripherals. Pro ...
board, .NET Micro Framework based * NodeMCU
Wi-Fi Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for Wireless LAN, local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by ...
microcontroller board *
Novena A novena (from , "nine") is an ancient tradition of devotional praying in Christianity, consisting of private or public prayers repeated for nine successive days or weeks. The nine days between the Feast of the Ascension and Pentecost, when the ...
– an ARM based computer built by Andrew Huang and associates *
OpenPOWER The OpenPOWER Foundation is a collaboration around Power ISA-based products initiated by IBM and announced as the "OpenPOWER Consortium" on August 6, 2013. IBM's focus is to open up technology surrounding their Power Architecture offerings, such ...
Power ISA Power ISA is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) currently developed by the OpenPOWER Foundation, led by IBM. It was originally developed by IBM and the now-defunct Power.org industry group. Power IS ...
, an open-source hardware instruction set architecture ( ISA) initiated by
IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...
* OpenSPARC – Sun's, later Oracle's high-performance processor *
Parallax Propeller The Parallax P8X32A Propeller is a multi-core processor parallel computer architecture microcontroller chip with eight 32-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) central processing unit (CPU) cores. Introduced in 2006, it is designed and so ...
– a multi-core microcontroller with eight 32-bit RISC cores * Parallella
single-board computer A single-board computer (SBC) is a complete computer built on a single circuit board, with microprocessor(s), memory, input/output (I/O) and other features required of a functional computer. Single-board computers are commonly made as demonst ...
with a manycore coprocessor and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) * Pinebook – Notebook from
Pine64 Pine Store Limited, Trade_name, doing business as Pine64 (styled as PINE64), is a Hong Kong-based organization that designs, manufactures, and sells single-board computers, notebook computers, as well as smartwatch/smartphones. Its name was insp ...
* SparkFun Electronics
microcontroller A microcontroller (MC, uC, or μC) or microcontroller unit (MCU) is a small computer on a single integrated circuit. A microcontroller contains one or more CPUs (processor cores) along with memory and programmable input/output peripherals. Pro ...
development boards, breakout boards * The Bus Pirate – universal bus interface and programmer * Turris Omnia – open-source SOHO network router *
RISC-V RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. The project commenced in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley. It transfer ...
– 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 Arduino () is an Italian open-source hardware and open-source software, software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardwar ...
-based drone * e-puck mobile robot
mobile robot A mobile robot is an automatic machine that is capable of locomotion.Hu, J.; Bhowmick, P.; Lanzon, A.,Group Coordinated Control of Networked Mobile Robots with Applications to Object Transportation IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 202 ...
designed for education * ICub – 1 metre high humanoid robot * OpenRAVE * RobotCub – predecessor of ICub * Spykee * multiplo * OpenROVtelerobotic submarine * Python Robotics * Thymio – robot for education * TurtleBot


Microcontrollers

* Freeduino – an open-source
physical computing Physical computing involves interactive systems that can sense and respond to the world around them. While this definition is broad enough to encompass systems such as smart automotive traffic control systems or factory automation processes, it i ...
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 Tinkerforge is an open-source hardware platform of stackable microcontroller building blocks (Bricks) that can control different modules (Bricklets). The primary communication interface of the building blocks can be extended using Master Extensio ...
– 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 Plaice is a common name for a group of flatfish that comprises four species: the European, American, Alaskan and scale-eye plaice. Commercially, the most important plaice is the European. The principal commercial flatfish in Europe, it is ...
— a device that combines a
flash memory Flash memory is an Integrated circuit, electronic Non-volatile memory, non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. The two main types of flash memory, NOR flash and NAND flash, are named for t ...
programmer A programmer, computer programmer or coder is an author of computer source code someone with skill in computer programming. The professional titles Software development, ''software developer'' and Software engineering, ''software engineer' ...
, 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 Amber is fossilized tree resin. Examples of it have been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since the Neolithic times, and worked as a gemstone since antiquity."Amber" (2004). In Maxine N. Lurie and Marc Mappen (eds.) ''Encyclopedia ...
is an ARM-compatible 32-bit
RISC In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks. Compared to the instructions given to a comp ...
processor. Amber implements the ARMv2
instruction set In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model that generally defines how software controls the CPU in a computer or a family of computers. A device or program that executes instructions described by that ISA, s ...
. * LEON, a 32-bit, SPARC-like CPU created by the
European Space Agency The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 23-member International organization, international organization devoted to space exploration. With its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around 2,547 people globally as of 2023, ESA was founded in 1975 ...
*
OpenPOWER The OpenPOWER Foundation is a collaboration around Power ISA-based products initiated by IBM and announced as the "OpenPOWER Consortium" on August 6, 2013. IBM's focus is to open up technology surrounding their Power Architecture offerings, such ...
, based on IBM's
POWER8 POWER8 is a family of superscalar multi-core microprocessors based on the Power ISA, announced in August 2013 at the Hot Chips conference. The designs are available for licensing under the OpenPOWER Foundation, which is the first time for suc ...
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 OpenRISC is a project to develop a series of open-source hardware based central processing units (CPUs) on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. It includes an instruction set architecture (ISA) using an open-source lic ...
1000 RISC architecture


Environmental

* Open Source Ecology


Renewable energy

*
Wind turbine A wind turbine is a device that wind power, converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. , hundreds of thousands of list of most powerful wind turbines, large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, were generating over ...
s


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 Local Motors was an American manufacturing company focused on low-volume production of open-source vehicles and other products using multiple microfactories. The company built a platform that combined online community co-creation with distribut ...
* Riversimple Urban Car * OpenXC *
OScar Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People and fictional and mythical characters * Oscar (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters named Oscar, Óscar or Oskar * Oscar (footballer, born 1954), Brazilian footballer ...
* Wikispeed * OSVehicle Tabby


=Airplanes

= * MakerPlane


Engine control units

* SECU-3 – gasoline engine control unit


Electric vehicle chargers

*
OpenEVSE OpenEVSE ''(Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment)'' is an Arduino-based charging station created by Christopher Howell and Sam C. Lin. The charger is composed of open-source software and hardware that can be made by individuals. The project started ...
– charger for electric cars


3D printers and scanners

*
RepRap project RepRap (a contraction of ''replicating rapid prototyper'') is a project to develop low-cost 3D printers that can print most of their own components. As open designs, all of the designs produced by the project are released under a free software l ...
3D printer-fabber; recyclebots, like the Lyman filament extruder, provide the filament for RepRaps * LulzBot
3D printer 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer ...
design by Aleph Objects; is '' Respects Your Freedom'' certified by the
Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985. The organisation supports the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed ...


CNC milling machines

*
Maslow CNC Maslow CNC is an Open-source model, open-source CNC router project. It is the only commercially available vertical CNC router and is notable for its low cost of US$500. Although the kit is advertised at $500, like many tools, additional initial ...
- an open source CNC router project notable for low cost and unique vertical design


Other hardware

* Multimachine
machine tool A machine tool is a machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, Boring (manufacturing), boring, grinding (abrasive cutting), grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformations. Machine tools employ some s ...
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 Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. Recycling can reduce dependence on landfills, conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Recycling rates lag beh ...
tools – Shredder, Extruder, Injector, Compressor, and supplemental resources *
Defense Distributed Defense Distributed is an online, open-source hardware and software organization that develops digital schematics of firearms in CAD files, or "wiki weapons", that may be downloaded from the Internet and used in 3D printing or CNC, CNC milling a ...
/
Liberator (gun) The Liberator is a 3D printing, 3D-printable single-shot handgun, the first such 3D printed firearms, printable firearm design made widely available online. The Open-source hardware, open source firm Defense Distributed designed the gun and rel ...
:*
Charon (gun) The DEFCAD Charon is an open source 3D-printable AR-15 lower receiver In firearms terminology and law, the firearm frame or receiver is the part of a firearm which integrates other components by providing housing for internal action componen ...
:* FGC-9 (gun)


Science


Medical devices

* Open Prosthetics Project – design of open-source
prosthetics In medicine, a prosthesis (: prostheses; from ), or a prosthetic implant, is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through physical trauma, disease, or a condition present at birth (congenital disorder). Prosthe ...
* Open-source ventilator


Scientific hardware

* ''Open-Source Lab'' – documents dozens of scientific tools, but is closed-source itself * OpenBCIEEG amplifier


Satellite

* UPSat


Partially open-source hardware

Hardware that uses closed source components


Computers


Single-board computers

*
Tinkerforge Tinkerforge is an open-source hardware platform of stackable microcontroller building blocks (Bricks) that can control different modules (Bricklets). The primary communication interface of the building blocks can be extended using Master Extensio ...
RED Brick, executes user programs and controls other Bricks/Bricklets standalone


=ARM

= * Banana Pi, uses low-power processors with an ARM core; runs
Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...
, Android, and
OpenWRT OpenWrt (from ''open wireless router'') is an open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux kernel, Linux, primarily used on Embedded system, embedded devices to Router (computing), route network traffic. The main components ...
* BeagleBoard, uses low-power Texas Instruments processors with an
ARM Cortex-A8 The ARM Cortex-A8 is a 32-bit processor core licensed by ARM Holdings implementing the ARM architecture, ARMv7-A architecture. Compared to the ARM11, the Cortex-A8 is a dual-issue superscalar processor, superscalar design, achieving roughly twic ...
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 KiCad ( ) is a free software suite for electronic design automation (EDA). It facilitates the design and simulation of electronic hardware for PCB manufacturing. It features an integrated environment for schematic capture, Printed circuit boar ...
by OLIMEX Ltd in
Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...
* 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 A single-board computer (SBC) is a complete computer built on a single circuit board, with microprocessor(s), memory, input/output (I/O) and other features required of a functional computer. Single-board computers are commonly made as demonst ...
with a manycore coprocessor and field-programmable gate array (FPGA)


=ATMega

= *
Arduino Arduino () is an Italian open-source hardware and open-source software, software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardwar ...
– open-source microcontroller board


Desktop computers

* Thelio — Desktop computers manufactured in the US by System76


=Motorola 68000 series

= *
Minimig Minimig (a portmanteau of ''Mini Amiga'') is an open source re-implementation of an Amiga 500 using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Minimig started around January 2005 as a proof of concept by Dutch electrical engineer Dennis van Wee ...
– a re-implementation of an
Amiga 500 The Amiga 500, also known as the A500, was the first popular version of the Amiga home computer, "redefining the home computer market and making so-called luxury features such as multitasking and colour a standard long before Microsoft or Apple ...
using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA).


=National Semiconductor NS320xx series

= * PC532, a
personal computer A personal computer, commonly referred to as PC or computer, is a computer designed for individual use. It is typically used for tasks such as Word processor, word processing, web browser, internet browsing, email, multimedia playback, and PC ...
design released in 1990, based on the NS32532 microprocessor


=RISC-V

= * HiFive1 is an
Arduino Arduino () is an Italian open-source hardware and open-source software, software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardwar ...
-compatible development kit featuring the Freedom E310, the industry's first commercially available
RISC-V RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. The project commenced in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley. It transfer ...
SoC *
HiFive Unleashed The HiFive Unleashed, or HFU is a discontinued single-board computer development board created by SiFive with the intention to increase exposure and adoption of the open-source hardware, open-source RISC-V architecture. The HFU is capable of runn ...
is a
Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...
development platform for
SiFive SiFive, Inc. is an United States, American Fabless manufacturing, fabless semiconductor company and provider of commercial RISC-V processors and Integrated circuit, silicon chips based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). Its product ...
’s Freedom U540 SoC, the world’s first 4+1 64-bit multi-core Linux-capable
RISC-V RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. The project commenced in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley. It transfer ...
SoC."


Notebook computers

*
Novena A novena (from , "nine") is an ancient tradition of devotional praying in Christianity, consisting of private or public prayers repeated for nine successive days or weeks. The nine days between the Feast of the Ascension and Pentecost, when the ...
, a notebook computer that uses a 1.2 GHz quad-core
Freescale Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. was an American semiconductor manufacturer. It was created by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004. Freescale focused their integrated circuit products on the automotive, embedde ...
processor closely coupled with a
Xilinx Xilinx, Inc. ( ) was an American technology and semiconductor company that primarily supplied programmable logic devices. The company is renowned for inventing the first commercially viable field-programmable gate array (FPGA). It also pioneered ...
FPGA *
VIA OpenBook VIA OpenBook is a laptop reference design from VIA Technologies, announced in 2008. The laptop case design was released as open-source hardware, open source. Windowsfordevices.com. May 27, 2008. Specifications Dimensions *Dimensions: 24.0w ...
, a
netbook A netbook is a small-sized laptop computer; they were primarily sold from 2007 until around 2013, designed mostly as a means of accessing the Internet and being significantly less expensive than regular-sized laptops. At their inception in l ...
case design released by VIA Technologies


Handhelds, palmtops, and smartphones

* Ben NanoNote, a
palmtop PC A Palmtop PC is an obsolete, approximately pocket calculator-sized, battery-powered computer in a horizontal clamshell design with integrated keyboard and display. It could be used like a modern subnotebook, but was light enough to be comfortabl ...
based on the
MIPS architecture MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995). ''MIPS IV Instruction Set'' (Revision 3.2), MIPS Technologies ...
* 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 SuperH (or SH) is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Hitachi and currently produced by Renesas. It is implemented by microcontrollers and microprocessors for embedded systems. At the ...
with some extensions * MIPS * Power, which originated from
IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...
's
POWER ISA Power ISA is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) currently developed by the OpenPOWER Foundation, led by IBM. It was originally developed by IBM and the now-defunct Power.org industry group. Power IS ...
*
RISC-V RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. The project commenced in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley. It transfer ...
, a
RISC In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks. Compared to the instructions given to a comp ...
ISA that originated in 2010 at the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...
* SPARC


Organisations

* Bug Labs, a US technology company that began by developing and selling open-source hardware peripherals for
rapid prototyping Rapid prototyping is a group of techniques used to quickly fabricate a scale model of a physical part or assembly using three-dimensional computer aided design ( CAD) data. Construction of the part or assembly is usually done using 3D printing ...
of electronics * LowRISC, a not-for-profit organization that aims to develop open hardware * M-Labs, developers of the Milkymist
system on a chip A system on a chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that combines most or all key components of a computer or Electronics, electronic system onto a single microchip. Typically, an SoC includes a central processing unit (CPU) with computer memory, ...
* Open Compute Project, an organization for sharing designs of
data center A data center is a building, a dedicated space within a building, or a group of buildings used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. Since IT operations are crucial for busines ...
products among companies * Open Graphics Project, a project that aims to design a standard open architecture for
graphics card A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a displa ...
s *
OpenCores OpenCores is a community developing digital open-source hardware through electronic design automation (EDA), with a similar ethos to the free software movement. OpenCores hopes to eliminate redundant design work and significantly reduce developm ...
, 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 OpenRISC is a project to develop a series of open-source hardware based central processing units (CPUs) on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. It includes an instruction set architecture (ISA) using an open-source lic ...
is a group of developers working to produce a very-high-performance
open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...
RISC In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks. Compared to the instructions given to a comp ...
CPU.


See also

* ''Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs'' (2014) *
Thingiverse Thingiverse is a website dedicated to the sharing of user-created digital design files. Providing primarily free, open-source hardware designs licensed under the GNU General Public License or Creative Commons licenses, the site allows contributor ...
, open-source designs of objects, many of which are 3D-printable *
Open-source hardware Open-source hardware (OSH, OSHW) consists of physical artifact (software development), artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open-design movement. Both free and open-source software (FOSS) and open-source hardware are created by th ...
* List of open-source first-person shooters *
List of open-source mobile phones This is a list of mobile phones with open-source operating systems. Scope of the list Cellular modem and other firmware Some hardware components used in phones require drivers (or firmware) to run. For many components, only proprietary dri ...
* List of open-source video games * Open-source robotics * Modular smartphone * Open Source Ecology *
Telecom Infra Project The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) was formed in 2016 as an engineering-focused, collaborative methodology for building and deploying global telecom network infrastructure, with the goal of enabling global access for all. TIP is jointly steered by i ...


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