'Ready to Use' Consumer Electronics
- Chumby: "The internet-alarm clock-information-station does more than just run Linux. With a 3.5” touchscreen, an ARM9, integrated Wi-Fi, and an accelerometer, all wrapped up in a rotund, friendly enclosure, there’s no question that it’s a bona fide consumer gadget."
- The VIA OpenBook was a concept for an open source hardware netbook released in 2008. Unfortunately, while VIA has long since launched other netbooks, it seems like this was more a marketing attempt than a full-fledged project.
- Qi Hardware NanoNote: an open source hardware handheld mobile PC
- OpenMoko’s Neo FreeRunner: open source smartphone
Agriculture, Development, Energy, Environment, and Sustainability
Related categories: Agrifood, Energy.
For status updates, go here at http://www.open-innovation-projects.org/project-list/simple?start=0
- algOS - Oil from Algae Open Source [23]
- Appropedia Foundation; Website with wiki and forum on open sustainable hardware and related projects[24]
- Global Village Construction Set by Open Source Ecology
- Open Design Water Treatment Plants: see the Agua Clara project
- Good Stove Cost and energy efficient stoves for the use in developing countries [25]
- Open Green Tech Database: e5 interlinks Clean Tech companies, research institutes, actors from the Open Source movement, legal experts and development organisations
- Mosquino: a software-compatible derivative of the open-source Arduino platform that is designed for extremely low power consumption, operating from ambient (harvested) environmental energy sources such as heat, sunlight and vibration.
- Open Photons, openPhotons - An open access laser based sensor platform is a National Science Foundation sponsored program to develop better photonic sensing technology.
- Open Sustainability Network
- Open Shaspa: Social Energy Tracker
- OSCirrus, expandable, open source software weather station built on inexpensive hardware and weather sensors.
- Protei - An Open Hardware Oil Spill Cleaning Sailing Robot (funding stage at 3/2011)
- SparkFun Gas Sensors - SparkFun.com is an open source hardware, online retail store. They offer a handful of devices for gas detection
- Tweet-a-Watt]: Social Energy Tracker
- Your Green Dream: for diy renewable communities
- WxMonitor, Open Source Weather Monitoring
Energy
- Absorber Roof:low cost solar absorbing roofing material, details in the public domain
- AlgaeFarm project: an open source hardware project to design and build an automated small-scale photobioreactor for the cultivation of microalgae. The project aims "to create a safe, affordable, and multi-feature reactor that increases the viability of small-scale photobioreactors for school research and science fair projects, biofuel research and development, growing your own fish food, etc."
- Arduino MPPT Solar charge controller: an open source Arduino based MPPT 12v solar charge controller for lead-acid battery.
- Build-It-Solar - Plans and tools and information to do renewable energy and conservation projects.
- Canuckle: designed to be the LEGO of alternative energy. The first project is a highly accurate solar tracker
- CleanInventors Solar Tracker:Solar Tracker using Arduino.#Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative ; (CSPOSI) - Project Archimedes: hybrid thermal solar collector for distributed power generation and water purification; Software and electronics hardware for concentrated solar power under GNU General Public License [26]
- Free Charge Controller project: an open source charge controller using MPPT to maximize power delivery from alternative energy sources. In its current state, it is designed to interface a 60 watt solar panel to charge a battery, but alternative input sources and loads are planned.
- Gasifier Experimenter Kit: biomass gasifiers that are ready for everyday use, to serve distributed energy needs.
- Open Energy Monitor: [27]a project to develop and build open source energy monitoring and analysis tools for energy efficiency and distributed renewable microgeneration.
- Open Source Wind Turbines: To assist people in the developing countries, and hobbyists alike, several projects have been open-sourced, e.g. the Jua Kali wind turbine, Hugh Piggot's wind turbine, ForceField Wind Turbine, et cetera
- Open Source Arduino Sun, see Heliostat Projects
- SHPEGS Open Energy Project (Solar Heat Pump Electrical Generation System): open concept for a renewable base load power station for moderate climates, based on solar and geothermal heat [28]
- SolarFire project: An open source linear reflecting fresnel solar concentrator. It is intended to be used by small industries and agricultural purposes, replacing use of coal and wood fires.It is also being deployed by Open Source Ecology project.
- Solar Flower: an open source solar energy collector which can be made very easily from common recycled and salvaged materials [29]
- SolaRoof, open design of solar energy for households
- Twibright Exciter pedal-poweder Self-Excited Induction Generator (SEIG) giving directly mains voltage based on cheap 3-phase induction motor
Water
- Agua Clara, Open Design Water Treatment Plants
- AKVO, open source water and sanitation [30]
- Akvopedia: open database on smart and affordable water and sanitation technology, open to be contributed, edited and used
Building and Housing, Furniture
- Auram CEB Block System] developed at Auroville India: This is the most advanced CEB block system in existence. Sort-of open in that they claim the technology is offered free to the world to use, but don't publish exact plans for anything
- Backcountry Boiler - kickstarter supported long tail manufacturing of an ultralight outdoor kettle
- Contraptor: aiming to create an open-design construction set,
- DIY Magic Mirror - An Arduino, open source based interactive Magic Mirror with home automation and Halloween features.
- Fragment Store]: modular self-combined fragments of design furniture
- Freebus - an Open Source Home Automation System
- Good Stove, open source stove for the poor
- Grid Beam Building System, reuseable parts for building
- Hexayurt, an open source disaster relief shelter
- Ikea Hacker Do it yourself blog on the base of corporate products
- Liberator, aka "Open Farm Tech's Liberator Compressed Earth Block machine; [31]
- Makerbeam
- MIT House-n 'chassis' system
- Movisi Open Design Furniture
- [http://wiki.openhardware.org/Catalog:One_Day_Chair One Day Chair: Chair design for a CNC cutter
- Open Architecture Network
- Open Remote, an Open Domotics community
- Open Sailing: modular marine architecture
- Open Source Construction Systems
- Open Source Cooling: KippKitts is designing open-source low-voltage (24V), high-efficiency (@2A) DC cooling units (air-conditioner/cpu cooler/refigeration) [32]
- Open Source House: 2 project; most recent is here
- Open Source Induction Furnace Project
- Open Source Washing Machine OSWASH
- Open Straw is an Open Source Prefab Strawbale House that can be built for $7k [33]
- WikiHouse: fabricated from locally sourced plywood cut on a CNC mill from openly shared template files, and assembled with minimal skill by local people.
Entertainment, Fashion, Leisure and Learning
- Aibo Hack: for Sony's Aibo and some other pet robots, see http://www.aibohack.com/pleo/yapt.htm
- Circuit Bending
- Lego Factory, design your own kits, in the corporate framework
- Lilypad: wearable microcontrollers and other electonic components,
- LugNet, design your own Lego kits, outside the corporate framework
- Natron und Soda: German language sewing community
- Niketalk: open sneaker community
- Open Source Camera, Stanford University's 'frankencamera' platform
- The Open Source Embroidery project
- Open Source Sewing Patterns such as Burdastyle
- Pamoyo, open source green fashion label
- PlaymoBeach: Customizing of Playmobil
- 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
- [Pret a Printer], TShirt Designs by Taskforge
- Ravelry: a knit and crochet community
- Zero Prestige, has captured much of the kiteboarding market through a website for sharing the plans of kites
- Zoybar: an Open Design Guitar
Food, Drinks
- CandyFab Project, do it yourself sugar printer
- Open Cola
- Solar Cooking
- Wine Hacking
- Free Beer
- Open Club Mate
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Health
Related categories: Health
- 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
- EyeWriter Project, low-cost, eye-tracking glasses & free, open-source software that allows writers and artists with paralysis to draw and communicate using only their eyes
- InVesalius, a brazilian open source medical imaging 3D reconstruction software
- Myopen Signal Processor: Skin surface human interface device. Interpret muscle movements for video gaming, prosthetic control, robotic teleoperation and more.
- Open EEG
- Open source solar hearing-aid charger by Godisa Technologies
- Open Source Pharma (speculation)
- Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD)
- OpenStim: The Open Noninvasive Brain Stimulator (see also)
- Open Prosthetics Project
- Open Source Geiger Counter ; Geiger Maps Jp
- Open Source Medicine
- Open Spirometry: low cost, open source spirometer
- Pandemic ventilator
- Polonator: the Open Source Genome Sequencer
- Raven, an open source robotic surgeon
- Whirlwind Wheelchair International
Mobility: Vehicles
Related categories: Transportation.
Cars
- Open Source Car: overview page
- StreetScooter, a $7,000 EV with a 74 mph top speed and an 80-mile range created by a collaboration of more than 50 companies
- 40 Fires Foundation: venture behind River Simple's Hybran project
- Open Source Hydrogen Car: the Riversimple project
- C,mm,n [34], Dutch Open Source Car project
- EDAG Open Source Light Car
- EVProduction club ([35]) is an organization with a wiki to design and produce open source electric vehicles and complements
- Fiat Mio - A crowdsourced concept car [36]
- Local Motors: = maker of the Rally Fighter, a car designed through Crowdsourcing, first to go into production
- Open Source Green Vehicle, an attempt to design an environmental friendly SUV using open source principles.
- OpenOtto: he project's goal: "to provide complete free and open access to the networked electronic devices in an automobile."
- OSCar
- OSCav : open source compressed air vehicle.
- Project Splitwheel Venture involving Caterham Cars (put on hold due to credit crunch].
- Sahkoautot, Electric Cars Now!, Finnish project
- Solar Vehicles [37], an open-source project to build fuel-less solar energy transportation.
- Trexa: A modular platform for designers of battery-powered Open Source Electric Vehicles
- Trev, Two-Seater Renewable Energy Vehicle
- Build Your Own Electric Car
- Converting a Mitsubishi to electric with step by step videos.
- Vehicle Design Summit 2.0: aims to create a 4-passenger, 200 MPGe, high-performance industry-standard car with minimal life cycle costs
Bicycles, motorbikes and scooters
- Atomic Duck: = an Open Source Velomobile: “a velomobile—an enclosed, human-powered vehicle (HPV). “ in open design. [38]
- Open Moto X: TTXGP electric race bike.
- eCagiva: eCars Now related conversion project for the Cagiva Freccia C10 -89
- eMoped: light weight electric motorcycle from Letsevo in Brazil
- Open Source Scooter, a project to make a Segway-type vehicle
- Spaceframe Bikes
- Worldbike, read What is open source bycicle design?
- Xtracycle: open design for bicycle
- How to build a 72Volt electric motorcycle
- Open Bicycle Computer: to show and log data that are important when you are on the road with your bicycle
- Open Source Velomobile and other Open Source Velomobile Development Projects
Airborne vehicles
- AeroModeller2: research into an autonomous self-generating hydrogen-based zero-emission low-cost low-tech nomad houseboat airship
- AeroQuad is an open-source hardware and software project dedicated to the construction of remote controlled four-rotor helicopters
- ArduCopter: Arduino-based autopilot for mulitrotor craft, from quadcopters to traditional helis [39]
- ArduPilot: a family of open source autopilots based on the Arduino open source computing platform. It consists of a choice of ArduPilot Mega (APM) electronics and a range of free software versions for different vehicles [40]
- DIY Drones, amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Microkopter: German 'quadrokopter' miniature helicopter community
- Open Source Next Generation Multicopter: UAVP stands for "Universal Aerial Video Platform". It is a flying object, ideally suited for making aerial videos and photos (aerial photography [41]
Space Transportation
Background at: Open Source Spaceflight Hardware Movement
- Open Aerospace
- OpenLuna Foundation
- Open Space Movement
- Wikisat
- CisLunarFreighter/Open source tools [42]
- NASA Will Tinker With Open-Source Rocket for Return to Moon [43]
For an updated directory, see also: [44]
Watercraft
- OpenROV, a DIY telerobotics community centered around underwater exploration & adventure. [45]
- Open Sailing
- Open Waterbike [46]
- Xmaran: a project to develop an open source sail cruiser that will form the basis for a modular floating community.
Other
- Do-it-yourself Electronic Fuel Injection [47]
- Open Source Battery Project for Electric Vehicles
- LifeTrac, tractor, also called OSTrac, the Open Source Tractor
- Open Source Satellite Initiative, making D.I.Y. satellites [48]
- OSMC - An open source Motor Control project, meant primarily for robotics but applicable to low-power electric vehicles and other uses
- Society for Sustainable Mobility
- Transportable Infrastructures for Development and Emergency Support: 7 critical infrastructures
Production/Machinery
- Adafruit Motor/Stepper: Full-featured motor shield that will be able to power many simple to medium-complexity projects.
- AnniRouter, an open hardware CNC router
- Callooh, A free hardware CNC router project
- Clanking Replicator Project is a bootstrap 3D printer that can make you pretty much anything that can be made from plastic
- Contraptor [49]: a DIY open source construction set for experimental personal fabrication, desktop manufacturing, prototyping and bootstrapping.
- The CubeSpawn Project, an Open Source, Flexible Manufacturing System
- Desktop CNC router - A three axis cnc machine that can be easily built using standard, home handyman level, tools.
- DIYLILCNC: CNC project
- Fabaroni is a homemade 3D printer
- Fab@Home: a project dedicated to making and using fabbers - machines that can make almost anything, right on your desktop
- Global Village Construction Set: A project to design open source versions of 50 different sustainability related machines.
- LAOS Laser, another open-source laser cutter[
- Lasersaur: Open Source Laser Cutter
- LifeTrac, a tractor from the Open Source Ecology project
- MAS863 - a simple home 3D scanner
- The micRo universal fabricator is a unique system which can be used for both additive (printing) and subtractive (milling, cutting) fabrication. It is a precise, modular tool which allows you to create complex objects out of wood, metal, plastic and more. From: Lumen Lab
- Makerbot, a project of RepRap
- MakerSlide, linear bearing system
- Mantis CNC: CNC project
- Microfactories, like oomlout's wire cutting system [50]
- Multimachine, all-purpose machine tool, an example of Multiple-Purpose Production Technology
- 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.
- Open 3DP
- Open Grasp, an open source simulation toolkit for grasping and dexterous manipulation
- Open Hardware Repository [51]
- Open Source CNC Milling Machine
- Open Source CNC Systems
- Open Source Integrated Circuits
- 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.
- Open Source Torch Table, see RepTab
- Open Source XMOS Based CNC Laser Engraver Controller
- OSMIlling , an open hardware milling machine project
- OSLOOM [52], an open source thread controlled loom
- P3P, see Open 3DP, powder-based personal 3D printer student project [53]
- Pervado: see OSMilling
- Pick and Place Project: To develop a low cost, reproducible, open-source pick and place system for automated SMT electronics assembly.
- RedBlueCNC: CNC project
- RepRap - Replicating Rapid-prototyper is a self-copying 3D printer - a self-replicating machine.
- RepTab: a CNC plasma torch table (cuts through steel), by Open Source Ecology
- Ronen Kadushin Open Design - a practical repository of physical shape algorithms
- ShapeOko, another open hardware CNC router, desktop variety
- Thingiverse [54]: This is a place to share digital designs that can be made into real, physical objects.
- Ultimaker, an open hardware 3D printer
Science
- CFree: high quality telescope optics, for astronomy
- DremelFuge - A One-Piece Centrifuge for Rotary Tools
- Handwave Skin Conductance Sensor
- Open PCR, a project to build one of the OpenPCR machines; an Open Source kitset based on an Arduino [55]
- Open rTMS Project = open 'god helmet' project [56]
- Open Source Geiger Counter ; Geiger Maps Jp
- OpenROV, a DIY telerobotics community centered around underwater exploration & adventure. [57]
- Pearl Gel Box, an Open Hardware Electrophoresis Gel Box (genetics)
- Pranav Mistry, the SixthSense Augmented Realitysystem [58]
See also: Open Science Hardware
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