index of projects & databases

Every cool project deserves its own page with images :)

databases

=> join ##hardware@Freenode

categories

Electronics

Name status Description
Spud-Server potato powered webserver
Arduino open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software
Beagleboard motherboard ‘with laptop-like performance’
Tweet-a-meter in shop DIY wireless power monitoring system, 90$
Monome USB connectable LED-pad
The Black Box open source alternative to appletv

phones

see also open telephony

Name status Description
Free Telephony Project
OpenMoko development canceled, successor: openphoenux
Openphoenux new board for GTA02 case
n900 we reached our goal new board for the n900 case
Fairphone in production focus on ethical and environmentally friendly production
Phoneblocs idea stadium so far, motorola showed interest modular compenents phone
Mesh Potato The Mesh Potato is a 802.11bg mesh router with a single FXS port. Adjacent mesh potatoes automatically form a peer-peer network, relaying telephone calls through a community without land lines or cell phone towers. The Mesh Potato is designed using open hardware and software and is part of the Village Telco project
Qwerty OtherHalf ordering phase not really open source and info is spread over the thread

printers

2D

Name status Description
DIY Inkjet Printer published May 17, 2011 1) This is ink not printing in powder (although other versions have) 2) An Arduino is controlling the print head directly 3) the C6602 ink heads are single color – build it, improve it, spread it!
RepRap self replication
UmTRX dual-channel wide-band SDR transceiver with 1GbE connection. It is developed by Fairwaves team to be used as a transceiver for OpenBTS and OsmoBTS GSM base stations, but due to its SDR nature it could be used for many other applications as well.
$12 Gongkai Phone complete phone, featuring quad-band GSM, Bluetooth, MP3 playback, and an OLED display plus keypad for the UI

3D makerbots

Name status Description
Lulzbot ordering

wearable

Name status Description
fenn’s hplus proposal proposal

Energy

Name status Description
Sola Roof Wiki “The Sola Roof Goal is to transform our homes and communities through an Open Source initiative for Sustainable Living sponsored by and based on the work of Richard Nelson and other pioneers of the Liquid Bubble Insulation and Liquid Solar technologies.”
Solar Heat Pump Electrical Generation System
airborne wind turbine active “Lightweight kite systems will extract wind power at a lower cost of energy. Tensile kites reach hundreds of times higher. The wind energy available is hundreds of times larger than the total human energy demand. Coordinated & fast moving kites can extract more energy per volume of air. Windswept and Interesting develops systems to gang kites together on nets.”

Food

  • Coffee soter – “We are developing a small-scale, cheap optical sorter for green coffee beans. It would use image classifiers (”artificial intelligence") and work on a Raspberry Pi 3 computer or similar."

unsorted links

 

one of the best lists i’ve seen:
rbose.org/wiki/FOSH_list

 
   

Hey rodread, I added your project to the category energy. The syntax is

| [airborne wind turbine -> http://www.instructables.com/id/Enjoy-a-nice-cup-of-kite-powered-tea ] | active | "Lightweight kite systems will extract wind power at a lower cost of energy. Tensile kites reach hundreds of times higher. The wind energy available is hundreds of times larger than the total human energy demand. Coordinated & fast moving kites can extract more energy per volume of air. [Windswept->http://windswept-and-interesting.co.uk] and Interesting develops systems to gang kites together on nets." |