Awesome Open Hardware

🛠 Helpful items for making and learning about open source hardware projects.

Contents

• Projects
• Talks
• Papers
• Conferences
• Platforms
• Podcasts
• Books
• Training programs
• Further Readings
• Related awesome

Projects

• Arduino - Arduino is an open-source electronics platform.
• Prusa3D - 3D printer manufacturer who shares their work open online.
• Precious Plastic - Tools to make plastic recycling as simple as possible.
• Open Source Ecology - Industrial machines made open.
• SafeCast - Environmental measurements for the public domain.
• WikiHouse - Digital designed open housing.
• RepRap - Humanity's first general-purpose, self-replicating manufacturing machine.
• OpenBCI - Brain computer interface.
• OpenMV - Open-source, low-cost machine vision platform.
• OpenSPIM - Open Access platform for Three-dimensional (3D) microscopy.
• mesoSPIM - Open-source light-sheet microscopes for imaging in cleared tissue.
• Mutable Instruments - Open-source eurorack classics.
• openUC2 - Open-source modular microscopy toolbox.
• OpenFlexure - Open-source, 3D-printed microscope, including a precise mechanical stage.
• Open-Source-Rover - A six wheeled, build-it-yourself, open-source rover.
• Biohack Academy - Open-source biotechnological hardware such as Incubator, Thermocycler, Centrifuge, Microscope, etc.
• GaudiLab - Open-source hardware projects for biology laboratories.
• Winterbloom - Open-source eurorack modules, Thea has some stellar design write-ups on her blog.
• Open Gamma Detector - Hackable, low-cost gamma-ray spectrometer.
• Opulo - Project that develops a pick and place machine.
• FarmBot - automated gardening machine to grow vegetables.
• PiKVM - Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi.
• Mekanika - Tools & Machines for Makers

Talks

• How Open Hardware will Take Over the World - TEDx talk by Nathan Seidle.
• Revolution of the open hardware - TEDx talk by Bram Geenen.
• Why do open hardware - Talk by Limor Fried (ladyada).
• Get your open hardware manufactured - Tips by Ian of Dangerous Prototypes.
• Open Hardware Projects to Fight COVID-19 - Collection video from N-O-D-E.
• Designing Open Hardware for 21st century science - Presentation by Andre Maia Chagas.
• Why open source hardware is(n't) working - Presentation by David Cuartielles.
• Open source and the future of hardware - Talk by Neil Gershenfeld.
• On behalf of mankind: thank you for sharing! - TEDx talk by Jerry de Vos

Papers

• What is the “Source” of Open Source Hardware? - Paper by Jérémy Bonvoisin, Robert Mies, Jean-François Boujut, Rainer Stark.
• Emerging Business Models for Open Source Hardware - Paper by Joshua M. Pearce.
• Towards national policy for open source hardware research: The case of Finland - Paper by I. T. S. Heikkinen, H. Savin, J. Partanen, J. SeppäläJ, M. Pearce.
• Open-Source Hardware in Education: A Systematic Mapping Study - Paper by Ruben Heradio, Jesus Chacon, Hector Vargas, Daniel Galan, Jacobo Saenz, Luis De La Torre, Sebastian Dormido.
• Haves and have nots must find a better way: The case for open scientific hardware - Paper by Andre Maia Chagas
• Open Labware: 3-D Printing Your Own Lab Equipment - Paper by Tom Baden, Andre Maia Chagas, Greg Gage, Timothy Marzullo, Lucia L. Prieto-Godino, Thomas Euler

Conferences

• Fosdem - Open Source event online on 5 & 6 February 2022.