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Podcasts
- Amp hour
Open Hardware and The Creative Economy.
- A-podcast
Open source hardware is the future.
- Command Line Heroes
Episode Makers unite.
- Open source hardware podcast
By the Programming Electronics Academy.
- Physics Worlds
Episode on the global impact of open hardware.
- Road to Open Science
Episode on open hardware in the Netherlands.
Projects
- ArduinoDevelopment Boards
Arduino is an electronics platform.
- Biohack AcademyScientific Instruments
Biotechnological hardware such as an incubator, thermocycler, centrifuge, microscope, etc.
- FarmBotAutomation, Manufacturing, and Robotics
Automated gardening machine to grow vegetables.
- freeDSPConsumer Devices
A family of audio digital signal processors.
- GaudiLabScientific Instruments
Hardware projects for biology laboratories.
- Hacker FabAutomation, Manufacturing, and Robotics
Nanofabrication tools for making integrated circuits.
Related Awesome
- Awesome Electronics
A curated list of awesome resources for electronic engineers and hobbyists.
- Awesome Open
A list of open companies and communities.
- Awesome Open Electronics
List with resources for Electronics Enthusiasts.
Platforms
- BoardRepo
Share KiCad and Altium projects as a link, with schematics, PCB views, BOM, and gerbers rendered in the browser.
- Hackaday.io
Hackaday.io is the world's largest collaborative hardware development community.
- Hackster.io
Connecting developers where exploring tomorrow starts today.
- Instructables
Instructables is a place that lets you explore, document, and share your creations.
- Kitspace.org
A place to build and share electronics projects.
- Openhardware.io
Tracking amazing open hardware projects.
Books
- Building open source hardware
Book by Alicia Gibb, on building open source hardware from 2014.
- Free to Make
Book by Dale Dougherty, how the maker movement is changing our schools, our jobs, and our minds.
- Open-source Lab
Book by Josua M. Pearce, how to build your own hardware and reduce costs.
- The bridge
Issue of the national academy of engineering on open source hardware.
- The Hardware Hacker
Book by Andrew "bunnie" Huang, how to design and manufacture open hardware products.
Talks
- Designing Open Hardware for 21st century science
Presentation by Andre Maia Chagas.
- Get your open hardware manufactured
Tips by Ian of Dangerous Prototypes.
- How Open Hardware will Take Over the World
TEDx talk by Nathan Seidle.
- On behalf of mankind: thank you for sharing!
TEDx talk by Jerry de Vos.
- Open Hardware Projects to Fight COVID-19
Collection video from N-O-D-E.
- Open source and the future of hardware
Talk by Neil Gershenfeld.
Design Tools
- ElmerMechanical and Electrical
A software suite for running finite element method simulations.
- FreeCADMechanical and Electrical
A mechanical computer-aided design program for designing 3D parametric parts.
- JumpstarterMechanical and Electrical
Open source hardware-in-the-loop testing framework for automated testing on real and virtual hardware with CI/CD integration.
- KiCadMechanical and Electrical
An electronic design automation program for designing printed circuit boards.
- KiCad StepUpMechanical and Electrical
A mechanical collaboration tool for moving projects between KiCad and FreeCAD.
- KLayoutIntegrated Circuit
A tool for viewing and editing integrated circuit layouts.
Papers
- Emerging Business Models for Open Source Hardware
Paper by Joshua M. Pearce.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- What is the “Source” of Open Source Hardware?
Paper by Jérémy Bonvoisin, Robert Mies, Jean-François Boujut, Rainer Stark.
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