Product Hacking

A comprehensive list of hacked and hackable products is maintained by Stephen Vermeulen at http://vermeulen.ca/product-hacking.html

• Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. • Bug Labs, a programmable hardware device, The Bug, run on open source software Bugbase • Chumby, a powerful little device with Wi-Fi, a 3.5-inch screen and an interface that you can customize • Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative • Daisy MP3 Player • Free Telephony Project, provides free reference designs for embedded telephony. Both the hardware and software are open. • Grid Beam Building System, reuseable parts for building • Hexayurt, an open source disaster relief shelter • Ikea Hacker • Jaldi Battery Charger • Lego Factory, design your own kits, in the corporate framework • LugNet, design your own Lego kits, outside the corporate framework • Movisi Open Design Furniture • Neuros Technology and its OSD Open Source Device • Night Brights, the entire making process of the lights is open source and shared publicly • Open Cola • Open Micromanufacturing and Nanomanufacturing Equipment • Open Moko, an Open Mobile Telephony project • Open Source Green Vehicle • Open Source Pharma • Open Source Scooter, a project to make a Segway-type vehicle • Open Source Sewing Patterns such as Burdastyle • Open Source Velomobile Development Project • Ronen Kadushin Open Design • Ronja by Twibright Labs, optical point-to-point data link device • Roomba, hackable Vacuuming Robots • SHPEGS Open Energy Project • Whirlwind Wheelchair International • Worldbike • Ybox, an internet connected set-top box

Reference Sites

• Appropedia • Instructables • Open Circuits, a wiki for sharing open source electronics knowledge, schematics, board layouts, ports and parts libraries • Open Cores, a loose collection of people who are interested in developing hardware, with a similar ethos to the free software movement" • Open Sustainability Network and its Standarrd blog • TaskForge

Related Concepts

• Citizen Product Design • Co-Creation • Co-Design • Crowdsourced Advertising • Crowdsourced Design • Open Customization • Open Design • Open Source Hardware • Open Hardware • Open P2P Communities • Open Peer to Peer Design • Open Source Hardware • Open Source Product Design • Open innovation • Peer Production Entrepreneurs • Personal Fabricators • RepRap • Self-organized Design Communities