Projects using the CERN Open Hardware Licence

This is a non-exhaustive list of projects that use the CERN OHL. Please inform us if you like to include other projects to this page.

Electronics

• Most projects in the Open Hardware Repository OHR

• Many projects on GitHub (Google search for CERN OHL site:github.com)

  • 728 results on 23/3/18, 771 results on 10/10/18, 997 on 19/12/18

• Many projects on GitHub (Google search for "CERN OHL" site:github.com, with quotes)

  • ? results on 23/3/18, 646 results on 10/10/18, 778 on 19/12/18

• Many projects om OpenBuilds (Openbuilds search for "CERN") - 11 results on 12/3/19

The first projects since July 2011 that we were made aware of until March 2018 (and a few important ones added later, with the month and year added):

• Adafruit Industries
  • Adafruit Prototyping Pi Plate Kit for Raspberry Pi
• Alexei Dolganov, Three-band guitar and bass amplifier
• apertus°, Axiom: Open Source Cinema.
• Analog Devices
  • Low Cost, High Performance Sound Bar System
• Antti Lukats, Arduino Compatible Zynq Shield.
• A-wai Amplification, Guitar amplifier - Du crowdfunding à tous les étages (in French)
• Bicitractor Pedal-powered tractor
• BigClown Open Source electronics for your DIY home automation projects
  • BigClown se představuje: IoT otevřeně a hlavně bezpečně (in Czech language, showing CERN OHL is used)
• Blikenlabs - EightByEight Blinky Badge
• Breathing games - free/libre and open source games, devices, and distributed databases to promote respiratory health and prevent asthma, cystic fibrosis, and other chronic respiratory diseases. (09/2020)
• CarbOnBal - Workshop tool to adjust the settings on carburetors or throttle bodies. This prevents waste of fuel, reduces costs and lengthens the life of the engine. - GitHub
  • CHIMAERA, a poly-magneto-phonic-theremin. A touchless, expressive, open music controller.
  • Chirp!, the plant watering alarm.
  • CitizenWatt, a low cost electricity consumption sensor. This sensor will be non intrusive, secured and under opensource licenses. CNIL and Paris City House, France.
  • Citoyens Capteurs. Platform to make environmental measurements (in French).
  • Close-Haul Communications
    • GAPfiller GSM900, an RF front end daughtercard intended for a single TRX GSM base station in the 900 MHz band. The GAPfiller GSM900 is compatible with the Ettus Research USRP software-defined radio systems.
  • ColorHug, an open source display colorimeter. United Kingdom
  • Easy-Phi, a low-cost lab instrument specific to quantum optics research that may be adapted to other fields of research. University of Geneva, Switzerland.
  • ExpEYES, a hardware and software framework to develop scientific experiments. India
  • Folknology, United Kingdom
    • Multi Axis Motion Controller.
    • Open Motion Controller designed to drive up to 6 steppers and 6 PWMs.
  • Freezing Nucleation Apparatus, an instrument for immersion freezing assays.
  • GP8B, G_Processor8Bits, a homemade, without any microcontroller 8-bit processor
    • G_CardMother, motherboard for 8-bit processor like "GP8B", forming an 8-bit computer.
  • Inverse Path
    • USB armory, Open source FLASH-drive sized computer
  • Jerry, the DIY server, France
  • Jon Neal, Power-over-Ethernet and RFID boards.
  • Kastelo, hardware wallet designed for safely storing and using Monero (XMR), a leading cryptocurrency.
  • KAUST, A high performance, low power computational platform for complex sensing operations in smart cities. (article, design files).
  • KORUZA - Wireless optical internet-access system, github. Data is securely transmitted point-to-point over a collimated beam of light with 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps throughput at distances up to 150 m.
  • littleBits Electronics, Library of electronic modules that snap together with magnets. From age 8 to infinity.
  • Makeatronics, Smart Commutator for brushless DC motors.
  • miniEngine - an open-source motion control software for timelapse photography
  • mobilECG, a USB-based open source 12-lead clinical electrocardiograph. (discontinued Dec.2014)
  • Mycroft AI
    • Mycroft Mark 1 – smart speaker with open-source digital assistant
  • Nedocon nedoCPU-32 - 32-bit hobby kit based on PIC32MX110 (DIP28).
  • ObsoNET, Ethernet interface for MSX
  • OMK: Open Music Kontrollers
  • OpenBugFarm: Bug farm kit
    • Contributing guide
  • OpenLCB, A new way of controlling model railroads
  • Own-mailbox, a box to ensure secure e-mail communication.
  • Protei: Shape-shifting sailing board
    • Instructables
  • Public Laboratory is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns.
    • All hardware designs on this site are released under the CERN Open Hardware License 1.1. Examples:
      • Balloon mapping kit
      • Make a Public Lab spectrometer
      • Foldable mini-spectrometer
  • Redwire, Low-Power Temperature and Humidity Sensor.
  • RoboBrrd Brain Board v2, a robot controller board.
  • ROP - Robotic Open Platform, The Netherlands
    • Wiki main page
  • SatNOGS, DIY Satellite Ground Station and Network
  • Shower loop
  • SimpleMachines, Italy
    • SimpleMachines to adopt CERN Open Hardware License v.1.1
  • Sinara, an open-source hardware ecosystem originally designed for use in quantum physics experiments running the ARTIQ control software.
  • Smokingcircuits HydroGadget an Internet-connected home irrigation timer and controller.
  • Smoothieboard, an open source, high performance and modular G-code interpreter and CNC controller.
  • thefabric, Switzerland
    • RGBA LED driver
  • Scoutbots, Open Hardware technologies to explore and protect the Ocean.
  • Signalyst DSC1, a DAC for high quality audio playback.
  • Think3dPrint3d
    • Duet, a 3D Printer controller board
  • Tinkerforge, Germany
    • Modular hardware kit. Press Release
  • Turris, a special router used to protect home networks, Czech Republic
  • UNICEF (Oct.2020)
    • from mail from UNICEF Innovation, Open Source Technical Advisor:
      This means that UNICEF is equipped to create, work with, and support works licensed under the CERN-OHL. It is a license that can be used for procurement and adoption of Open Hardware projects used across UNICEF.
  • UPSat, Satellite camera and optics
  • Z-mota MOVE, a device capable of capturing the movement of the person who wears a bracelet, designed in the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Non-electronics

• BCN3D SIGMA, a professional FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication) 3D printer

  • electronics on github
  • Printer Libre - Open Source Files for BCN3D Sigmax 3D Printer Released, March 2018

• Elphel (August 2011)

  • Open hardware and open source camera designed by Elphel Inc. primarily for scientific applications. Elphel cameras are being used to capture images for Google Street View and the Google Books project and are used in a Global Hawk UAV operated by NASA.
  • Elphel in wikipedia
  • Foxel, company leveraging Elphel technology (2015)

• Flexible Wind Meter (FWM)

  • Novel type of wind speed and direction measuring instrument for data logging in very remote and inhospitable places. (Mar.2013)

• FOSS4I “Fiber Optic Sensor Systems for Irrigation”

  • How can high energy physics help the water shortage?

• Koruza, networking solution based on free-space optics.

• Les Faiseurs de Bière ("The makers of beer")

  • Bière Libre (the drinking kind!)

• Le projet voosilla, free small wind turbines (site in French) (Jan. 2013)* mmodulUS, reconfigurable modular furniture (in Spanish).

• Opennautics, open source space exploration hardware.

• Open Space Agency Ultrascope, an open-source robot telescope.

• Public Lab Balloon Mapping Kit

• smartCaster: Open source automatic roto-casting machine

• SunZilla 3.0, a pop-up solar generator.

• Tumaker Voladora V3 3D printer.

  • github

• Wanamei project. Development of sociotechnical solutions for small and artisanal miners of the region of Madre de Dios (Peru), including a mini-excavator.

• Waterscope

  • Started at University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • OpenFlexure microscope, 3D-printable microscope for low-cost water testing in the developing world.
  • Design files on GitHub

Journals

• Journal of Open Hardware
  • Guide for authors
• HardwareX (Elsevier)
  • Guide for authors

Camps, conferences & hacker days

• POC21 - an innovation camp to prototype the fossil free, zero waste society. (2015)
  • 12 Projects
  • Intellectual Property and Open Source
  • Retour de POC21 : quelles licences pour l’Open Hardware ? (in French)

Considering using the CERN OHL

• IEEE’s Humanitarian Technology "Solutions" (April 2014)
  • Humanitarian Initiatives Committee (HIC) of IEEE Region 7
  • 2014 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference - IHTC

Projects where the link doesn't work anymore

• FrankenBebi, LED-based anchor light for boats.
• Gizmo For You Ltd, Cyprus
  • How this works - User's Terms and Conditions
• Sufficiency Inc. - Sufficiency Mutual Aid Forum, USA
  • Worm Farm turns shredded paper and waste fruit and vegetables into high quality organic fertilizer, with the help of tiger worms. (stopped Oct. 2013)
• Breadpig
  • Breadpig Balloon Mapping Kit collects your own aerial photos from up to 1000 ft.
• ONAWI - Open Wind Turbines (Nov. 2011)
• Desktop Spectrometry kit (Aug. 2018)
  • Distributed as Desktop Spectronomy Kit by Edmund (Aug. 2018)Scientifics
• Totem Health Sensor, an open platform giving giving users the freedom to create their own algorithms, insights and use cases. The Netherlands (non-working redirected link on 30/11/20)

28 April 2021