Product Hacking

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

Examples

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. Bug Labs, a programmable hardware device, The Bug, run on open source software Bugbase
4. Chumby, a powerful little device with Wi-Fi, a 3.5-inch screen and an interface that you can customize
5. Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative
6. Coreboot, aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware)
7. Daisy MP3 Player
8. Elphel, cameras
9. Ethernut, Open Source Hardware and Software Project for building tiny Embedded Ethernet Devices
10. ExpressPCB, manufactures self-designed motherboards
11. Free IO
12. Free Telephony Project, provides free reference designs for embedded telephony. Both the hardware and software are open.
13. Grid Beam Building System, reuseable parts for building
14. Hexayurt, an open source disaster relief shelter
15. Ikea Hacker
16. Jaldi Battery Charger
17. Lego Factory, design your own kits, in the corporate framework
18. 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...
19. LiberLab, a DIY digital lab at a very low price
20. LugNet, design your own Lego kits, outside the corporate framework
21. Manticore, an open source hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator
22. Movisi Open Design Furniture
23. Muio, a modular system for sensing and controlling the Real World
24. Multimachine, all-purpose machine tool, an example of Multiple-Purpose Production Technology
25. Neuros Technology and its OSD Open Source Device
26. Night Brights, the entire making process of the lights is open source and shared publicly
27. Open Architecture Network
28. Open Bios, Open Firmware implementations
29. Open Cola
30. Open EEG
31. Open FM
32. Open Graphics Project
33. Open Handset Alliance
34. Open Micromanufacturing and Nanomanufacturing Equipment
35. Open Moko, an Open Mobile Telephony project
36. Open Pandora
37. Open Pattern, embedded electronics for wireless
38. Open Source Green Vehicle
39. Open Source Pharma
40. Open Source Scooter, a project to make a Segway-type vehicle
41. Open Source Sewing Patterns such as Burdastyle
42. Open Source Velomobile Development Project
43. Open Sparc
44. OKVM Project, open source console and KVM management software / open source KVM hardware.
45. Ronen Kadushin Open Design
46. Ronja by Twibright Labs, optical point-to-point data link device
47. Roomba, hackable Vacuuming Robots
48. SHPEGS Open Energy Project
49. SolaRoof, open design of solar energy for households
50. SquidBee, "Open Hardware and Source wireless sensor device. The goal of SquidBee is getting an "open mote" to create Sensor Networks"
51. Ucasterisk, free hardware designs for telephone systems. Both the hardware and software are open.
52. Whirlwind Wheelchair International
53. Worldbike
54. x0xb0x, "Roland" MIDI synthesizer
55. Ybox, an internet connected set-top box

Reference Sites

See the Open Hardware tag for updates.

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

Related Concepts

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