Product Hacking

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

Concepts

1. Free Hardware Design, Open Development, Open Customization ; Open Design, Open Hardware, Open Innovation, Open Source, Open Source Product Design, Open Source Hardware
2. Citizen Product Design; Co-Creation; Co-Design ; Desktop Manufacturing ; Peer Production Entrepreneurs ; Self-organized Design Communities
3. Typology by degree of openness: Closed Hardware; Open Interface, Open Design, Open Implementation
4. It is increasingly easy and popular to share and swap physical goods, i.e. Freecycling‎, using Free Stores‎ and FreeSharing Network‎s. See also: Regifting and Regiving

More:

1. Citizen Product Design
2. Community Supported Manufacturing
3. Co-Creation
4. Co-Design
5. Crowdsourced Advertising
6. Crowdsourced Design
7. Open Customization
8. Open Design
9. Open Source Architecture
10. Open Source Hardware
11. Open Hardware
12. Open P2P Communities
13. Open Peer to Peer Design
14. Open Source Hardware
15. Open Source Physical Objects
16. Open Source Product Design
17. Open innovation
18. Peer Production Entrepreneurs
19. Personal Fabricators
20. RepRap
21. Self-organized Design Communities

Tools

1. Alliance, free CAD tools and portable libraries for VLSI design
2. Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software.
3. LEOX, Complete, free, open source, set of hardware and software components usable to build an embedded computer with its operating system that can be incorporated easily into a FPGA or into an ASIC...
4. LiberLab, a DIY digital lab at a very low price

Reference Sites:

1. Appropedia
2. InventGeek
3. Instructables
4. Open Circuits, a wiki for sharing open source electronics knowledge, schematics, board layouts, ports and parts libraries
5. Open Cores, a loose collection of people who are interested in developing hardware, with a similar ethos to the free software movement"
6. Open Sustainability Network and its Standarrd blog
7. SPI, founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software.
8. TaskForge

Open Products

Electronic Parts

1. Coreboot, aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware)
2. Ethernut, Open Source Hardware and Software Project for building tiny Embedded Ethernet Devices
3. ExpressPCB, manufactures self-designed motherboards
4. Free IO
5. Manticore, an open source hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator
6. Open Pattern, embedded electronics for wireless
7. SquidBee, "Open Hardware and Source wireless sensor device. The goal of SquidBee is getting an "open mote" to create Sensor Networks"
8. TuxPhone, an RFID-enabled Open Cellphone project
9. Ucasterisk, free hardware designs for telephone systems. Both the hardware and software are open.

Products with Electronic Components

1. Bug Labs, a programmable hardware device, The Bug, run on open source software Bugbase
2. Chumby, a powerful little device with Wi-Fi, a 3.5-inch screen and an interface that you can customize
3. Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative
4. Daisy MP3 Player
5. Elphel, cameras
6. Free Telephony Project, provides free reference designs for embedded telephony. Both the hardware and software are open.
7. Jaldi Battery Charger
8. Muio, a modular system for sensing and controlling the Real World
9. Neuros Technology and its OSD Open Source Device
10. Night Brights, the entire making process of the lights is open source and shared publicly
11. Open Bios, Open Firmware implementations
12. Open EEG
13. Open FM
14. Open Graphics Project
15. Open Handset Alliance
16. Open Micromanufacturing and Nanomanufacturing Equipment
17. Open Moko, an Open Mobile Telephony project
18. Open OEM, "the next generation open computer"
19. Open Pandora
20. Open Sparc
21. OKVM Project, open source console and KVM management software / open source KVM hardware.
22. Ronja by Twibright Labs, optical point-to-point data link device
23. Roomba, hackable Vacuuming Robots
24. x0xb0x, "Roland" MIDI synthesizer
25. Ybox, an internet connected set-top box

Other products

Agriculture, Development and Sustainability

1. SHPEGS Open Energy Project
2. SolaRoof, open design of solar energy for households

Building and Housing, Furniture

1. Grid Beam Building System, reuseable parts for building
2. Hexayurt, an open source disaster relief shelter
3. Open Architecture Network
4. Ikea Hacker Do it yourself blog on the base of corporate products
5. Movisi Open Design Furniture

Fashion, Leisure and Learning

1. Open Source Sewing Patterns such as Burdastyle
2. Lego Factory, design your own kits, in the corporate framework
3. LugNet, design your own Lego kits, outside the corporate framework

Mobility

1. Worldbike
2. Whirlwind Wheelchair International

Production =

1. Multimachine, all-purpose machine tool, an example of Multiple-Purpose Production Technology

1. Open Cola
2. Open Source Pharma

1. Ronen Kadushin Open Design