Product Hacking

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

Here below is our own Free Design Directory.

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
5. "Light Green Ecology" points to the necessity to conceptualise material streams in a bio-logical way: Spontaneus abundance and upcycling as principles. Free Resources, Cooperative Cycles

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 Source Permaculture
12. Open Hardware
13. Open P2P Communities
14. Open Peer to Peer Design
15. Open Source Hardware
16. Open Source Physical Objects
17. Open Source Product Design
18. Open innovation
19. Peer Production Entrepreneurs
20. Personal Fabricators
21. RepRap
22. Self-organized Design Communities

Tools

Development Toolkits

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
5. Open CASCADE - software development platform freely available in open source.

Organizations

1. Open Hardware Foundation [1]

Reference Sites:

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

Other Resources

1. Open Hardware License [2]
2. OpenShorts Podcast: a record of hackable products

Open Products Directory: Electronics

notation

• s = software open source / developer community
• h = hardware open for manufacturing

Open CPU

• Open SPARC [3] is a project with an already created UltraSPARC T1 multicore chip by Sun Microsystems. As of August 2007 a T2 chip is also in the pipeline Sun's OpenSPARC
• OpenRISC is a group of developers working to produce a very high performance open source RISC CPU.
• LEON is an open source 32-bit SPARC-like CPU created by the ESA. It's the standard CPU for the European Space Industry.
• Coreboot [4], aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware)
• F-CPU, Freedom CPU project initiated in mid-1998.

Designs that Include a CPU

• Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple I/O board and a development environment that implements the open source Processing / Wiring language.
• SquidBee - Open Mote based in Arduino for developing sensor networks. "Open Hardware and Source wireless sensor device. The goal of SquidBee is getting an "open mote" to create Sensor Networks"
• OpenBook - tablet design, positioning between $100 laptop and consumer Tablet PC´s price, which wants allow tablet usage to masses by high volume production.
• BalloonBoard.org produces open arm-based development boards, aimed at OEMs and further education.
• PLAICE - an open source hardware and software project developing a powerful in-circuit development tool that combines in one device the features of a FLASH Programmer, Memory Emulator, and High Speed Multi-Channel Logic Analyzer. It runs uClinux.
• OpenPCD - Open RFID reader/writer project, using AT91SAM7S128 microcontroller.
• ASoC (ALSA System on Chip).

Graphics cards

• Open Graphics Project [5] [6] aims to design an open architecture and standard for graphics cards.
• Project VGA

Other Electronic Parts and Components

1. Ethernut, Open Source Hardware and Software Project for building tiny Embedded Ethernet Devices
2. ExpressPCB, manufactures self-designed motherboards
3. Free IO
4. Manticore, an open source hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator

Open Computers

1. Bug Labs, a programmable hardware device, The Bug, run on open source software Bugbase s
2. ECB AT91 - Single-board computer based on the Atmel AT91RM9200 ARM9 processor (180 MHz).
3. ECB ATmega32/644 - Single-board computer based on the Atmel ATmega32/644 (20 MHz) with webserver-capability and less than 100mA power consumption
4. OLPC XO-1, One Laptop Per Child project
5. Open OEM - Project to build the first open source computer,
6. Simputer - handheld computer aimed at developing countries

Open Telephones

1. Free Telephony Project, Astfin provides free reference designs for embedded telephony. s,h
2. Open Handset Alliance
3. Opencellphone.org - an RFID-enabled Open Cellphone project, also called 'TuxPhone'
4. Open Moko - open phone framework (first use case: FIC neo1973, expected in Q4, 2007), see Open Mobile Telephony
5. Ucasterisk, free hardware designs for telephone systems. Both the hardware and software are open.

Open Wireless Hardware

1. Open Pattern [7], embedded electronics for wireless
2. Sun SPOT is an open source hardware and software platform for sensor networks and battery powered, wireless, embedded development
3. Gray-Hoverman Antenna: For UHF Television Reception

Other devices primarily based on Electronic Components

1. Aurora: music mixer for DJ's
2. Chumby, a powerful little device with Wi-Fi, a 3.5-inch screen and an interface that you can customize s
3. Daisy MP3 Player s,h
4. Elphel, cameras s,h
5. gEDA - full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools.
6. GP2X an open-source, Linux-based handheld video game console and media player created and sold by GamePark Holdings of South Korea.
7. Jaldi Battery Charger s,h
8. LED Throwies - non-destructive graffiti and light displays
9. Monome 40h - A reconfigurable grid of sixty-four backlit buttons, used via USB. A limited batch of 500 monome 40h has been produced. All the design process, design specifications, firmware and PCB schematics are available online
10. Muio, a modular system for sensing and controlling the Real World s,h
11. Netgear Open Router WGR614L [8]
12. Neuros Technology and its OSD Open Source Device
13. Night Brights, the entire making process of the lights is open source and shared publicly
14. Open Bios, Open Firmware implementations
15. Open FM
16. Open GPS Tracker
17. Open Micromanufacturing and Nanomanufacturing Equipment
18. Open Pandora
19. Open-rTMS - creating a low cost rTMS device and free software to go with it.
20. OpenServo - creating a low cost digital servo for use with RC and robotics projects.
21. OKVM Project, open source console and KVM management software / open source KVM hardware.
22. Roku Netflix Player [9]
23. Ronja by Twibright Labs, optical point-to-point data link device
24. Roomba, hackable Vacuuming Robots
25. x0xb0x, "Roland" MIDI synthesizer
26. Ybox, an internet connected set-top box

Open Products Directory: Other

Agriculture, Development and Sustainability

1. AKVO, open source water and sanitation
2. Build-It-Solar - Plans and tools nd nformation to do renewable energy and conservation projects.
3. Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative
4. SHPEGS Open Energy Project
5. 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. Open Remote, an Open Domotics community
5. Ikea Hacker Do it yourself blog on the base of corporate products
6. Movisi Open Design Furniture

Fashion, Leisure and Learning

1. Aibo Hack: for Sony's Aibo and some other pet robots, see http://www.aibohack.com/pleo/yapt.htm
2. The Open Source Embroidery project
3. Open Source Sewing Patterns such as Burdastyle
4. Pamoyo, open source green fashion label
5. Lego Factory, design your own kits, in the corporate framework
6. LugNet, design your own Lego kits, outside the corporate framework
7. Pleo: a toy dinosaur baby robot which is able to behave. The behavior is of course just software... The company producing Pleo is actively supporting community by making the product open for software. See also: http://www.aibohack.com/pleo/yapt.htm
8. [Pret a Printer], TShirt Designs by Taskforge

Food, Drinks

1. CandyFab Project, do it yourself sugar printer
2. Open Cola
3. Wine Hacking

Health

1. Open EEG
2. Open Source Pharma (speculation)
3. OpenStim: The Open Noninvasive Brain Stimulator
4. Open Prosthetics Project
5. Whirlwind Wheelchair International

Mobility: Vehicles

1. C,mm,n [10], Dutch Open Source Car project
2. EVProduction club ([11]) is an organization with a wiki to design and produce open source electric vehicles and complements
3. LifeTrac, tractor, also called OSTrac
4. Open Source Green Vehicle, an attempt to design an environmental friendly SUV using open source principles.
5. Open Source Scooter, a project to make a Segway-type vehicle
6. Open Source Velomobile Development Project
7. OSCar
8. OSCav : open source compressed air vehicle.
9. OSMC - An open source Motor Control project, meant primarily for robotics but applicable to low-power electric vehicles and other uses
10. Sahkoautot, Electric Cars Now!, Finnish project
11. Transportable Infrastructures for Development and Emergency Support: 7 critical infrastructures
12. Worldbike

Production

1. Multimachine, all-purpose machine tool, an example of Multiple-Purpose Production Technology
2. Ronen Kadushin Open Design - a practical repository of physical shape algorithms

For an alternative topic organization, see the Appropedia Topic Tree