Product Hacking

Here below is our own Free Design Directory.

Concepts

Free Hardware Design, Open Development, Open Customization ; Open Design, Open Hardware, Open Innovation, Open Source, Open Source Product Design, Open Source Hardware Citizen Product Design; Co-Creation; Co-Design ; Desktop Manufacturing ; Peer Production Entrepreneurs ; Self-organized Design Communities Typology by degree of openness: Closed Hardware; Open Interface, Open Design, Open Implementation 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 "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: Citizen Product Design Community Supported Manufacturing Co-Creation Co-Design Crowdsourced Advertising Crowdsourced Design Open Customization Open Design Open Source Architecture Open Source Hardware Open Source Permaculture Open Hardware Open P2P Communities Open Peer to Peer Design Open Source Hardware Open Source Physical Objects Open Source Product Design Open innovation Peer Production Entrepreneurs Personal Fabricators RepRap Self-organized Design Communities

Tools

Other Directories The Open source hardware page of the Wikipedia contains many links; See also the Open hardware category page For news updates on product hacking, see the list maintained by Stephen Vermeulen at http://vermeulen.ca/product-hacking.html The Open Innovations Project has a well organized, and updated directory of projects which is the best place to gauge the maturity of the various projects. While it as at present not as comprehensive as this list, it has a lot more details per project, and is organized as a real database. The 2008 Open Source Hardware Directory from Makezine, is conceived as a gift catalogue for hardware hackers. Oriented to hardware machines, this Thingiverse directory of open designs appears the most sophisticated at present. Harkopen: an open hardware community with project hosting Open Collector has a database with open hardware and hardware design tools. Hardware on Debian Linux - a collection of portals, projects, and tools. Open Hardware Repository Development Toolkits Alliance, free CAD tools and portable libraries for VLSI design Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. BeagleBoard - an ultra-low cost, high performance, low power platform for embedded devices with laptop-like performance. Bluespec, a software tool developed at MIT for designing and testing circuits, making life easier for open-source-hardware engineers Fritzing, an open-source initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product Gadget Board is a low cost, user friendly microcontroller experimentation board. Gainer - an environment for user interfaces and media installations to handle sensors and/or actuators with a PC on various programming environments. 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... LiberLab, a DIY digital lab at a very low price Open CASCADE - software development platform freely available in open source.

Companies Adafruit Industries, sells kits and parts for original, open source hardware electronics projects Liquidware: open source electronics shop Ponoko: 3D Printing shop Organizations Open Hardware Foundation [1] Shared Design Alliance Reference Sites: Appropedia DesignBreak InventGeek Instructables Makezine: magazine for the DIY makers community [2] 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 SPI, founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. TaskForge Other Resources Open Hardware License [3] 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

• E-Risc: a scaleable RISC microprocessor for embedded applications
• Gumstix: the world's smallest full function, open source computers.
• Open SPARC [4] 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 [5], 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.

1. Arduino Nano is a small 16MHz embedded micro controller

• 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 [6] [7] aims to design an open architecture and standard for graphics cards.
• Project VGA

Other Electronic Parts and Components

1. BeagleBoard - an ultra-low cost, high performance, low power platform for embedded devices with laptop-like performance.
2. Ethernut, Open Source Hardware and Software Project for building tiny Embedded Ethernet Devices
3. Etherrape: Microcontroller with ethernet
4. ExpressPCB, manufactures self-designed motherboards
5. Free IO
6. Gadget Board is a low cost, user friendly microcontroller experimentation board.
7. Little Bits: an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards
8. Manticore, an open source hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator
9. Octopus USB: different Interfaces from the world of microcontroller over an easy USB interface

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
7. Via OpenBook: only the case design is open

Open Telephones

1. Free Telephony Project, Astfin provides free reference designs for embedded telephony. s,h
2. IP04 Four Port IP-PBX: Open Hardware Four Port IP-PBX
3. IP08 Eight Port IP-PBX: Similar to IP04 with 8 ports. Will be produced by Atcom.
4. Maemo: Open source software development kit for mobile internet devices. Founded and maintained by Nokia for there N770, N800, N810 internet tablets.
5. Open Handset Alliance
6. Opencellphone.org - an RFID-enabled Open Cellphone project, also called 'TuxPhone'
7. Open Moko - open phone framework (see Open Mobile Telephony) - update
8. Open Pandora [8] - the ultimate open source handheld device.
9. Ucasterisk, free hardware designs for telephone systems. Both the hardware and software are open.

Open Wireless Hardware

1. Gray-Hoverman Antenna: For UHF Television Reception
2. Open Pattern [9], embedded electronics for wireless
3. Open Router, i.e. Netgear Open Router WGR614L [10]
4. Sun SPOT is an open source hardware and software platform for sensor networks and battery powered, wireless, embedded development

Other devices primarily based on Electronic Components

Gaming Arduino GamePack[11], an Open Source Game Player Fuzebox: fully open-source, DIY 8-bit game console Open Pandora: Linux based gaming console GP2X an open-source, Linux-based handheld video game console and media player created and sold by GamePark Holdings of South Korea. Lights Fnordlicht:Intelligent Moodlight LED Throwies - non-destructive graffiti and light displays 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 Night Brights, the entire making process of the lights is open source and shared publicly Semitone Open Dimmer Project: he development of comfortable standalone digital light dimmers for home use Strobit Triggr Project: SpokePOV and MiniPOV - "Spoke POV is an easy-to-make electronic kit toy that turns your bicycle wheel into a customized display!" Music Aurora: music mixer for DJ's AVR Butterfly MP3: Open design for a portable MP3 player, in both hardware and software AX84 Firefly: The Cooperative Tube Guitar Amp Project Daisy MP3 Player s,h SpiffChorder: a platform for building your own USB-based chording keyboard Traxmod: a small digital audio player using the Microchip PIC32 high speed microcontroller chip Universal Software Radio Peripheral x0xb0x, "Roland" MIDI synthesizer Zoybar: open design guitar

Robotics iRobot Create: preassembled mobile robot platform OpenServo - creating a low cost digital servo for use with RC and robotics projects. Roomba, hackable Vacuuming Robots Willow Project [12], Open Source Robotics Sensors AVR Butterfly Logger: uses the Atmel AVR Butterfly hardware and open source tools to create a cost effective stand alone datalogger for logging light, temperature, voltage or any general sensor value Gainer - an environment for user interfaces and media installations to handle sensors and/or actuators with a PC on various programming environments. Muio, a modular system for sensing and controlling the Real World s,h Others Chumby, a powerful little device with Wi-Fi, a 3.5-inch screen and an interface that you can customize s Elphel, cameras and imaging solutionss,h gEDA - full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools. iLiad: electronic handheld device which can be used for document reading and editing. Jaldi Battery Charger s,h Neuros Technology and its OSD Open Source Device Open Beacon: a free design for an active RFID device Open Bios, Open Firmware implementations Open FM Open GPS Tracker Open Micromanufacturing and Nanomanufacturing Equipment Open PCD: a free hardware design for Proximity Coupling Devices or Open RFID Reader Open-rTMS - creating a low cost rTMS device and free software to go with it. OKVM Project, open source console and KVM management software / open source KVM hardware. Roku Netflix Player [13] Ronja by Twibright Labs, optical point-to-point data link device Ybox, an internet connected set-top box

Open Products Directory: Other

Agriculture, Development, Energy, Environment, and Sustainability

1. Absorber Roof:low cost solar absorbing roofing material, details in the public domain
2. AKVO, open source water and sanitation
3. Build-It-Solar - Plans and tools nd nformation to do renewable energy and conservation projects.
4. Canuckle: designed to be the LEGO of alternative energy. The first project is a highly accurate solar tracker
5. Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative
6. Open Shaspa: Social Energy Tracker
7. OSCirrus, expandable, open source software weather station built on inexpensive hardware and weather sensors.
8. SHPEGS Open Energy Project
9. SolaRoof, open design of solar energy for households
10. Tweet-a-Watt]: Social Energy Tracker
11. Your Green Dream: for diy renewable communities
12. WxMonitor, Open Source Weather Monitoring

Building and Housing, Furniture

1. Contraptor: aiming to create an open-design construction set,
2. Fragment Store]: modular self-combined fragments of design furniture
3. Good Stove, open source stove for the poor
4. Grid Beam Building System, reuseable parts for building
5. Hexayurt, an open source disaster relief shelter
6. Ikea Hacker Do it yourself blog on the base of corporate products
7. Movisi Open Design Furniture
8. Open Architecture Network
9. Open Remote, an Open Domotics community
10. Open Sailing: modular marine architecture
11. Open Source Washing Machine OSWASH

Entertainment, 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. Natron und Soda: German language sewing community
3. Niketalk: open sneaker community
4. The Open Source Embroidery project
5. Open Source Sewing Patterns such as Burdastyle
6. Pamoyo, open source green fashion label
7. PlaymoBeach: Customizing of Playmobil
8. Lego Factory, design your own kits, in the corporate framework
9. LugNet, design your own Lego kits, outside the corporate framework
10. 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
11. [Pret a Printer], TShirt Designs by Taskforge
12. Ravelry: a knit and crochet community
13. Zero Prestige, has captured much of the kiteboarding market through a website for sharing the plans of kites
14. Zoybar: an Open Design Guitar

Food, Drinks

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

Health

1. BioBricks: refer to a specific "brand" of open source genetic parts as defined via an open technical standards setting process that is led by the BioBricks Foundation
2. Open EEG
3. Open Source Pharma (speculation)
4. Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD)
5. OpenStim: The Open Noninvasive Brain Stimulator (see also)
6. Open Prosthetics Project
7. Polonator: the Open Source Genome Sequencer
8. Whirlwind Wheelchair International

Mobility: Vehicles

1. AeroModeller2: research into an autonomous self-generating hydrogen-bvased zero-emission low-cost low-tech nomad houseboat airship
2. C,mm,n [14], Dutch Open Source Car project
3. DIY Drones, amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
4. EDAG Open Source Light Car
5. EVProduction club ([15]) is an organization with a wiki to design and produce open source electric vehicles and complements
6. Microkopter: German 'quadrokopter' miniature helicopter community
7. LifeTrac, tractor, also called OSTrac, the Open Source Tractor
8. Open Source Battery Project for Electric Vehicles
9. Open Bicycle Computer: to show and log data that are important when you are on the road with your bicycle
10. Open Source Green Vehicle, an attempt to design an environmental friendly SUV using open source principles.
11. Open Source Hydrogen Car: the Riversimple project
12. Open Source Scooter, a project to make a Segway-type vehicle
13. Open Source Velomobile Development Project
14. OSCar
15. OSCav : open source compressed air vehicle.
16. OSMC - An open source Motor Control project, meant primarily for robotics but applicable to low-power electric vehicles and other uses
17. River Simple: a platform for fuel-efficient cars
18. Sahkoautot, Electric Cars Now!, Finnish project
19. Transportable Infrastructures for Development and Emergency Support: 7 critical infrastructures
20. Vehicle Design Summit 2.0: aims to create a 4-passenger, 200 MPGe, high-performance industry-standard car with minimal life cycle costs
21. Worldbike

Also:

1. How to build a 72Volt electric motorcycle
2. Converting a Mitsubishi to electric with step by step videos.
3. Build Your Own Electric Car

Production/Machinery

1. Callooh, A free hardware CNC router project
2. Clanking Replicator Project is a bootstrap 3D printer that can make you pretty much anything that can be made from plastic
3. Desktop CNC router - A three axis cnc machine that can be easily built using standard, home handyman level, tools.
4. Fabaroni is a homemade 3D printer
5. Fab@Home: a project dedicated to making and using fabbers - machines that can make almost anything, right on your desktop
6. MAS863 - a simple home 3D scanner
7. Multimachine, all-purpose machine tool, an example of Multiple-Purpose Production Technology
8. Open Automation Project engineers modular software and electronic components, from which it is possible to assemble an intelligent PC-based mobile robot suitable for home or office environments.
9. Open Source CNC Milling Machine
10. Open Source Machine - Home of The MultiMachine, an all-purpose machine tool that can be built by a semi-skilled mechanic with just common hand tools.
11. RepRap - Replicating Rapid-prototyper is a self-copying 3D printer - a self-replicating machine.
12. Ronen Kadushin Open Design - a practical repository of physical shape algorithms

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