Disclaimer

Neither exhaustiveness nor exactness of information gathered in the directory is claimed by the authors. There might be more information available online about a given product than what is listed here. Particularly, the evolution of projects in time may be quicker than the information update rate on this site, so we cannot ensure all the information being up to date. If you feel one product has been rated less open than reported here, don’t hesitate to contribute by either commenting or correcting the information by yourself. There are certainly more open source hardware products satisfying the criteria selected above than contained in this list. If you have a product in mind which satisfies the selection criteria, don’t hesitate to add it. If you come across a dead link, feel free to remove the link from the list!

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Selection criteria

• The product is a discrete manufactured product. Products of food and process industries such as yoghurt, cement, chemicals or plastic compounds are excluded.
• The product contains at least original tangible and non-electronic hardware, that is, mechanical or any other type of non-electronic physical element (e.g. textile). The product may eventually include electronical hardware and consequently software. Purely electronic hardware or software products such as Arduino or Linux are excluded. The piece of non-electronic hardware is "original" in the sense that it is a creation of the product originator and is not component bought on the shelf. This criterion aims at bringing the development of open source hardware to the foreground and outside the sphere of electronic hardware.
• The product must have at least a certain minimum complexity. Products which consist for example of only one part or material do not meet this criterion. Products such as business card holders or cell phone cases made of one unique 3D-printed part are out of scope. The objective is here to bring to the foreground those of the open source products that are on the upper side of the complexity scale. In other words: to select the few complex ones and let aside the myriad of simple ones (you can for example find on Thingiverse or similar platforms).
• The product is developed for functional rather than aesthetic purposes. Jewellery, artistic and decorative items do not fulfil this criterion and therefore were not included.
• The product is fully defined or is surrounded by a community working on defining it fully (i.e. so that you can actually produce it). Mere product ideas or concepts that are not intended to be further defined by the surrounding community are not considered. In that sense, the focus of this list is clearly different from those of challenge platforms such as OpenIDEO who focuses solely on concept generation.
• The product is labelled by its corresponding community as open source.
• Although there is not systematically 1:1 relations between product, project and community, only one product per project and per community is considered.