Open Source Hardware Projects

Main List

• P2P Foundation goldmine, but many outdated - http://p2pfoundation.net/Product_Hacking#Companies
• WikiPedia List of Open Source Hardware Projects
• Open Innovations Projects - German updatable directory - [1]
• OHANDA directory - [2]
• The Bypass Movement - http://thebypassmovement.com/how-to-participate/
• Makers of the 3rd Industrial Revolution - List of projects in resources directory, p. 144 onwards
• OKFN List - http://okfn.org/about/team/
• [3]
• Kickstarter's Open Source Tag - updated regularly

Specific Areas

Beer and Cola

• Premium-Bier

Cities and Countries

• Open Source Juba, Sudan. Contact Stephen Kovats.
• One Community
• Open State - prototyping a smallest cell of a sustainable future. 2013.

Cars

• Only on electronics and software - OpenXC by Ford, collab with Bug Labs - smartphone-integrated cars.
• Wikispeed
• ZWheelz - open source electric car, failed on Indiegogo

Clothing

• OSLoom

Collaborative Events

• Hackathon.io - hackathon organizing site

Construction Sets

• GVCS
• Makeblock

Documentation

• Open Hardware Hub
• Dozuki - closed source
• Open Design Engine - by the Mach 30 team
• BOM Fu
• oManual

Routers

• AnniRouter - appears to be good on philosophy of tao of making - simplicity.

Dead

• Ronja - [4]

Electronics

• Open_Electronics_Interview_with_Nathan_Seidle

Lasers

• LAOS - from Europe, appears to have traction

Materials

• Cfree - open source friendly, materials, co-design, high quality telescope optics?

Metal Melting

• Electric Aluminum Melting Furnace - plans for $4

Milling

• Shapeoko - CNC Milling Machine

Phones

• TuxPhone - dead as of 2009
• Openmoko turns into OpenPhoenux - alive; $700 cost for motherboard.

Robotics

• Willow Garage
• OpenROV - underwater robotic ocean vehicle
• Open Moon - moon rover

Space

• Mach 30 - from Eric Doster
• DIYRockets

Scientific Equipment

• Arduino Spectrometer
• Public Lab - developed Open Source Spectrometer
• RPI Open Source Spectrometer

Video

• ELphel digital camera - [5]

Solar Concentrators

• Zenman Energy

• Zenman Energy - Facebook

3D Printers

• Robo 3D Printer
• Lyman Filament Extruder - $250 plastic extruder for making filaments for 3D printers out of recycled plastic

Strategy

• Buglabs to design universal power supply or at least some modules? Talk to Peter Semmelhack in NYC office, founder
• Wikispeed for potential ops managers?
• Solidoodle commercial 3D printer is in Brooklyn. Code and electronics are open source.
• OpenSat - visit with founder during Seoul Digital Forum
• Open State micro-civilization build in Berlin.

Links

• Open Hardware Accelerators
• Collaborative Platforms