The most incredible 10 hardware open source projects of the 2013

This article summarizes the most incredible open source hardware projects released in 2013, most of them are crowdfunding projects, which also shows that in 2013, the open source industry's innovation development is very prosperous and received great attention. At the same time, many large companies, start-ups and individual developers are beginning to pay high attention to open source innovation, Outlook 2014, open source innovation will be developed to another higher level!

May: Open Source experimental instrument Red Pitaya

Source code: Not yet available

To be sure, buying lab equipment is expensive, and that's why the Red Pitaya project team decided to create a hardware to remodel the phone, tablet or computer as an experimental device. Obviously a lot of people are very confident about this project, they have raised their final goal five times, and finally they have only postponed two months to release the latest version perfectly. This is very good for crowdfunding activities, they finally reap the unexpected great success!

The only limitation of the project is that although the software stack is open source, the hardware is not yet open source.

August: The design and technical product of individual producer integration: Fabtotum

Source code: Not yet available

The project was launched by two Milan Polytechnic researchers: the two Italian partners designed a super cool triple-function machine (scanning, 3D printing, scrub), and it looks pretty. As we all know, Milan is the origin of Italian design, the design of the thing is certainly not bad ~

On the back, it was a very striking project: they received about 600k$ funding (the most important crowdfunding project in Europe at the time, and I believe it is the same today), they have already sold 300 printers, and they will release the latest version in the summer of 2014. If you want to know more about the information in the project, you can check out the interview report on them.

August: Open Source Hacking RF

Source code: http://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/

If you want to ask me how many RF enthusiasts there are in the world, I will tell you a lot. Hack RF is a platform that helps you "send or receive any 30MHz to 6000MHZ radio signal on a USB power supply." According to the perfect update of the project in Kickstarter, this project is not lack of funds and also received more funding, their budget 80k has been 600k$ funding, this is a very big success!

This project proves once again that you can innovate in any industry and technology, even traditional technologies, using aggressive open source methods.

September: Open source Car--tabby

Creator: OSVehicle

Source code: http://www.osvehicle.com/download/

This project no longer needs to introduce more: A company intends to take over the design of urban vehicles, but has developed a modular, can be added and added to the small size of the city car for industrial players model, a basic development of urban car sharing solutions and urban brand models. They put this project fully open source, along with the Code and Development Blueprint. Interact with the community without interruption even when the project is developing features. This is an exciting project, and their next goal is: the actual market.

September: The future of smartphones--phonebloks

Source code: not yet published

Although the project is still a vision, it is growing fast. By September 2013, Dave Hakkens had created amazing community value by uploading his phoneblocks video, which has more than 1.8M hits on YouTube, while winning 1 million people's support for his product vision in a Thunderclap event. Since then, all the progress has been smooth: Motorola,google's supported handset makers have given Dave a lot of support and the project is growing clearer: open source, long-term, interchangeable, modular, customizable phones. You deserve it!

More information can be viewed in this interview with Dave's video interview on Open Elecronics, join them can go first Phonebloks website register or project Ara's dscout on Motorola's page Give support and feedback.

October: Poppy, open source and affordable humanoid robot

Source code: http://www.poppy-project.org/open-platform/

Robotics is a thriving area, but there are not many fully open source platforms, although the Open robotics Foundation is already developing an operating system. When Poppy was first released, in October, the Inria French project group in Bordeaux was interested in it: it was open source (code and hardware), and the cost-effective (most of the robot was 3D printing and the standard cost over 8k€) was a bot project. The project currently has more than 60 testers in the test and has now completed 70%. For more information on this project, go to: http://www.poppy-project.org/overview/

October: Shamduino--open source hardware no boundaries

Source code: not yet published

Open source and inclusive technology methods make things more complex, and long ago, some countries prone to hacking are facing this difficult issue of security and instability. Shamduino from a purely technical point of view there is nothing new, even in the form of completely open source. This is the most exciting open source project we want to issue this year, and it makes us believe that open source hardware is not just another hardware development project, but a new attempt to market, community, and innovation that is completely different from the past.

November: Helium, open source portable loudspeaker powered by supercapacitors

Source code: Http://www.blueshiftpdx.com

This is one of the most interesting projects so far: not only is "charging five minutes, continuing to work more than 6 hours, 500,000 times times longer life cycle", but also open source projects (at least the supercapacitors are open source). The project developer wrote on their page:

"We will release the complete BOMs, gerbers and so on, all the components that make the super capacitor drive portable loudspeaker. ”

Cool crowdfunding project.

November: A metal 3D printer with a cost of less than 2000$

Creator: University scholar (g.c Anzalone,michigan technological University and others)

Source code: Https://www.academia.edu/5327317/A_Low-Cost_Open-Source_Metal_3-D_Printer

This amazing project has been reported on a global scale in the early December, and owning a cheap metal 3D printer is no longer a dream for small companies and for developing Chinese national communities.

A bold and innovative scientist!

December: OPENBCI---Open-source brain computer interface

Source code: http://www.openbci.com/technology-update/

We highly encourage and support open source projects in medicine, and by accessing an open source, high-quality hardware that collects EEG signals can open up many innovative avenues for this community. Although EEG waves are not only used in the medical industry, they can also be applied to artificial intelligence interactions, games or other designs, even to discover more brain diseases, mental states, and mental and physiological states of the general brain.

Absolutely interesting, but also need everyone's support.

All of these amazing projects require your support, why not join us?

Wish Better 2014: If we know what it is, it's a year of open source hardware!

The most incredible 10 hardware open source projects of the 2013