Open-source embedded-systems software
1075 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged embedded-systems, ranked by how closely embedded-systems is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
1075 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| pspdev/pspsdk An open-source SDK of libraries and tools for developing homebrew software for Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP). It provides OS stub libra… | 77 | 1193 | active |
| G6EJD/ESP32-e-Paper-Weather-Display An Arduino/ESP32 firmware project that fetches weather data from the OpenWeatherMap API and renders it on Waveshare ePaper (e-ink) displays… | 72 | 1192 | active |
| TeXitoi/keyberon Keyberon is a pure Rust, no_std crate providing building blocks for creating custom keyboard firmware. It uses embedded-hal for GPIO key sc… | 49 | 1192 | active |
| samyk/magspoof MagSpoof is a portable Arduino-based device that spoofs and emulates magnetic stripe cards (credit cards, hotel keys, etc.) wirelessly by g… | 32 | 4156 | maintenance |
| usetrmnl/trmnl-firmware Open-source firmware for the TRMNL e-ink display device, written in C for embedded hardware. It handles Wi-Fi provisioning via a captive po… | 90 | 1188 | active |
| OSS CAD Suite Project IceStorm documents the reverse-engineered bitstream format of Lattice iCE40 FPGAs and provides tools for analyzing and creating bit… | 66 | 1188 | active |
| avrdudes/avrdude AVRDUDE is a command-line utility for downloading and uploading on-chip memories (Flash, EEPROM, fuse and lock bits) of AVR microcontroller… | 86 | 1187 | active |
| graphitemaster/incbin A single-header C/C++ library that embeds binary and text files directly into executables at compile time via macros and inline assembly. I… | 39 | 1187 | stable |
| Xinyuan-LilyGO/T-Display-S3 Official examples, pin maps, and support library for the LilyGO T-Display-S3 ESP32-S3 development board with a 1.9-inch 170x320 ST7789 disp… | 74 | 1186 | active |
| Digital-EDA/Digital-IDE Digital IDE is an all-in-one VSCode extension for hardware description language development, supporting Verilog, VHDL, and SystemVerilog. I… | 74 | 1185 | active |
| flashrom/flashrom flashrom is a C utility for detecting, reading, writing, verifying, and erasing flash memory chips. It is commonly used to flash BIOS/EFI/c… | 77 | 1184 | active |
| Optiboot/optiboot Optiboot is a small (512-byte) and fast bootloader for Arduino boards and Atmel/Microchip AVR microcontrollers, replacing the stock Arduino… | 49 | 1181 | active |
| FarmBot OS FarmBot OS (FBOS) is the operating system and related software that runs on FarmBot's Raspberry Pi, built with Elixir and the Nerves framew… | 84 | 1173 | active |
| srsran/srsRAN_4G srsRAN 4G is an open-source software radio suite implementing a full 4G LTE protocol stack in C++, including srsUE (UE), srsENB (eNodeB), a… | 72 | 4078 | maintenance |
| majianjia/nnom NNoM is a high-level neural network inference library written in C for microcontrollers. It converts Keras models into optimized on-device … | 23 | 1170 | stable |
| me-no-dev/ESPAsyncWebServer An asynchronous web server library for ESP8266 and ESP32 microcontrollers, supporting WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, and event-driven reque… | 10 | 4046 | maintenance |
| USB C Industrial Camera (FPGA MIPI CSI-2 USB3) Open-source USB-C industrial camera project with interchangeable C-mount lens and MIPI sensor, containing PCB designs, Lattice Crosslink NX… | 75 | 1162 | active |
| RibShark/OmniDrive OmniDrive is a custom firmware modification for MediaTek MT1959-based Hitachi-LG optical disc drives that unlocks raw sector reading, lead-… | 72 | 1160 | active |
| metartc/metaRTC MetaRTC is a pure C WebRTC SDK designed for embedded, IoT, and robotics devices, implementing a complete WebRTC protocol stack (ICE, DTLS/S… | 72 | 1158 | active |
| bluez/bluez BlueZ is the official Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux, providing the kernel interfaces, daemons, and command-line utilities for Bluetoot… | 89 | 1156 | stable |
| SummerCart64 SummerCart64 is a fully open source flashcart for the Nintendo 64 console, combining hardware design files, firmware, and a PC companion ap… | 39 | 1156 | active |
| MCUdude/MiniCore MiniCore is an Arduino hardware package (core) that adds support for classic AVR ATmega microcontrollers (ATmega8, 48, 88, 168, 328 and var… | 82 | 1155 | active |
| janestreet/hardcaml Hardcaml is an OCaml library for designing and testing hardware circuits, letting users express hardware designs using OCaml's type system … | 60 | 1154 | active |
| VLSIDA/OpenRAM OpenRAM is an open-source Python framework that acts as a compiler for static random access memory (SRAM). It generates layouts, netlists, … | 63 | 1147 | active |
| wuspy/portal_calendar A Portal-themed e-ink desk/wall calendar built on ESP32 hardware that runs for years on AAA batteries. It displays the date with Portal cha… | 51 | 1147 | active |
| ricardoquesada/bluepad32 Bluepad32 is a Bluetooth controller host library that adds gamepad, mouse, and keyboard support to embedded projects on ESP32 variants, Ras… | 66 | 1146 | active |
| TrunkRecorder/trunk-recorder Trunk Recorder is a C++ application that records calls from trunked and conventional radio systems (P25, SmartNet, DMR, analog) using one o… | 84 | 1145 | active |
| GENIVI/CANdevStudio CANdevStudio is a cost-effective, open-source development tool for CAN bus simulation, designed to replace expensive commercial CAN framewo… | 34 | 1145 | active |
| ThingPulse/esp8266-weather-station An Arduino library for building ESP8266-based weather stations that fetches data from OpenWeatherMap, Aeris, and other weather APIs. It inc… | 23 | 1145 | active |
| B-Lang-org/bsc The Bluespec Compiler (BSC) is a compiler, simulator, and toolchain for the Bluespec Hardware Description Language, supporting both Bluespe… | 86 | 1144 | active |
| moononournation/Arduino_GFX Arduino_GFX is an Arduino graphics library supporting various color displays (LCD, OLED) over multiple data bus interfaces such as SPI, par… | 92 | 1143 | active |
| PSn00bSDK PSn00bSDK is an open source homebrew software development kit for the original Sony PlayStation, providing a GCC-based C/C++ toolchain, lib… | 23 | 1142 | active |
| roleoroleo/yi-hack-Allwinner-v2 A custom firmware modification for Xiaomi Yi 1080p cameras built on the Allwinner SoC, replacing the stock cloud-dependent software with a … | 88 | 1140 | active |
| greatscottgadgets/luna LUNA is an Amaranth HDL (Python) framework providing FPGA gateware and software for working with USB, from passive protocol analysis to bui… | 70 | 1140 | active |
| z88dk/z88dk Z88DK is a complete cross-development kit for the Z80 family of processors (8080, Z80, Z180, ez80, Rabbit, GBZ80 and more), providing C com… | 67 | 1140 | active |
| HarryR/z80ai Z80-μLM is a 2-bit quantized micro language model designed to run on 8-bit Z80 processors with only 64KB of RAM, exportable as ~40KB CP/M .… | 46 | 1136 | active |
| NimBLE-Arduino A C++ Arduino library wrapping the Apache NimBLE Bluetooth Low Energy stack for Espressif ESP32 and Nordic nRF51/nRF52 microcontrollers. It… | 95 | 1134 | active |
| Open Smartwatch OS The open-source operating system/firmware for the Open-Smartwatch, an ESP32-based DIY smartwatch built from open hardware modules and 3D-pr… | 70 | 1134 | active |
| afiskon/stm32-ssd1306 A C library for STM32 microcontrollers that drives OLED displays based on SSD1306, SH1106, SH1107, and SSD1309 controllers over I2C or 4-wi… | 42 | 1133 | stable |
| Xilinx/Vitis_Libraries A collection of open-source, performance-optimized accelerated libraries for the AMD Vitis Unified Software Platform, offering out-of-the-b… | 90 | 1130 | active |
| CCNYRoboticsLab/imu_tools A collection of ROS/ROS2 packages for IMU sensor processing, including Madgwick and complementary filters that fuse gyroscope, acceleromete… | 75 | 1130 | active |
| rust-embedded/riscv A collection of Rust crates providing low-level access to RISC-V processors, including CPU register access, intrinsics, standard peripheral… | 74 | 1129 | stable |
| s00500/ESPUI ESPUI is an Arduino-style C++ library that serves a web-based user interface from ESP8266 and ESP32 microcontrollers using websockets. It l… | 55 | 1126 | active |
| flipperdevices/flipperzero-ufbt uFBT is a compact, cross-platform Python CLI tool for building and debugging applications for the Flipper Zero device. It downloads a prebu… | 48 | 1124 | active |
| 0x1abin/MultiTimer MultiTimer is a lightweight C software timer extension module for embedded systems that manages multiple timer tasks with callbacks, replac… | 32 | 1124 | stable |
| OUI OUI is a framework for building web administration interfaces for OpenWrt, using Lua-eco for backend APIs and Vue3 + Element Plus + Vite fo… | 76 | 1122 | active |
| DroneBridge DroneBridge for ESP32 is open-source firmware for ESP32 modules that provides a secure, transparent, bidirectional telemetry link between a… | 91 | 1120 | active |
| splinedrive/kianRiscV A collection of open-source RISC-V RV32IMA system-on-chip designs written in Verilog/SystemVerilog, featuring MMU with SV32 virtual memory … | 64 | 1119 | active |
| Wren6991/Hazard3 Hazard3 is a 3-stage RISC-V (RV32IMACZb*) soft processor core written in Verilog, with JTAG/APB debug support, PMP, and hardware breakpoint… | 74 | 1117 | active |
| Sprig Sprig is a web-based JavaScript game editor and fantasy console from Hack Club for building tile-based games, paired with a custom handheld… | 68 | 1115 | active |
| hyOzd/serialplot SerialPlot is a Qt-based desktop application for plotting data from a serial port in real time. It supports binary and ASCII (CSV) input fo… | 30 | 1114 | active |
| mathertel/OneButton An Arduino C++ library that detects single clicks, double clicks, and long presses from a single pushbutton attached to one digital input p… | 58 | 1111 | stable |
| alekmaul/pvsneslib PVSnesLib is an open-source development kit for programming Nintendo SNES games in C or assembly. It bundles a compiler/linker toolchain (8… | 83 | 1110 | active |
| picoruby/picoruby PicoRuby is a compact alternative implementation of the Ruby language (based on mruby and mruby/c VMs) designed to run on one-chip microcon… | 95 | 1107 | active |
| ARM-software/CMSIS-DSP CMSIS-DSP is ARM's optimized embedded compute library providing DSP and math kernels for Cortex-M and Cortex-A processors, including FFT, f… | 95 | 1106 | stable |
| revk/xESP32-Faikout Faikout is an ESP32-based hardware module and firmware that controls Daikin air conditioning units, allowing network-based management of th… | 10 | 1106 | active |
| contiki-os/contiki Contiki is an open source operating system for tiny low-power microcontrollers, providing standardized low-power wireless communication acr… | 32 | 3808 | maintenance |
| ZhuYanzhen1/miniFOC miniFOC is an open-source Field Oriented Control (FOC) firmware and hardware scheme for brushless DC (BLDC) motors, designed to run on very… | 23 | 1104 | active |
| pico-coder/sigrok-pico Firmware and sigrok driver that turns a Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040/RP2350) into a low-cost logic analyzer and oscilloscope. It supports 21 d… | 72 | 1102 | active |
| creapunk/CLN-ClosedLoopNemaDriver An open-source hardware project providing compact closed-loop stepper motor drivers for NEMA form factor motors, with schematics, PCB files… | 72 | 1101 | active |
| eugene-tarassov/vivado-risc-v A collection of Xilinx Vivado block designs and Tcl scripts that generate a RISC-V SoC FPGA bitstream capable of booting a full Debian Linu… | 76 | 1100 | active |
| TinyMPC/TinyMPC TinyMPC is an open-source C++ solver for convex model-predictive control with a small memory footprint, designed for resource-constrained m… | 70 | 1100 | active |
| Rukenshia/pomodoro An ESP32-based physical Pomodoro focus timer with an ePaper display, rotary dial input, and a 3D-printed case. The repository contains the … | 29 | 1100 | active |
| EspressifApp/EsptouchForAndroid EspTouch is an Android library and app by Espressif that provisions ESP8266/ESP32 IoT devices by broadcasting the router's SSID and passwor… | 48 | 1098 | active |
| ODrive ODrive is high-performance brushless motor controller firmware (C++) for ODrive v3.x hardware, enabling precise torque, velocity, and posit… | 48 | 3770 | maintenance |
| lwmqtt An Arduino library wrapping the lwmqtt MQTT 3.1.1 client with an Arduino-style API. It supports many Arduino-compatible boards and shields … | 65 | 1094 | stable |
| weston-embedded/uC-OS3 µC/OS-III is a preemptive, highly portable, scalable real-time kernel (RTOS) originally developed by Micrium and now maintained by Weston E… | 61 | 1093 | stable |
| x-tools-author/x-tools xTools is an open-source, cross-platform Qt-based debugging tool-set for serial port, HID, BLE, UDP, TCP, WebSocket, Modbus, CAN Bus, MQTT,… | 84 | 1090 | active |
| festvox/flite Flite (festival-lite) is a small, fast, portable run-time text-to-speech synthesis engine written entirely in ANSI C by Carnegie Mellon Uni… | 23 | 1088 | stable |
| espressif/esp-matter Espressif's official SDK for building Matter smart home products on ESP32 series SoCs. It wraps the open-source Matter SDK (connectedhomeip… | 76 | 1084 | active |
| rednblkx/HomeKey-ESP32 Firmware for ESP32 boards that implements Apple HomeKit lock functionality with support for Apple Home Key, enabling NFC-based door unlocki… | 83 | 1083 | active |
| BojanJurca/Esp32_oscilloscope An ESP32 Arduino project that turns the microcontroller into a basic oscilloscope, sampling GPIO signals and displaying them in a web brows… | 70 | 1080 | active |
| particle-iot/device-os The open-source Device OS firmware for Particle IoT devices, providing the operating system, hardware abstraction layer, cloud communicatio… | 89 | 1078 | active |
| ODAS ODAS (Open embeddeD Audition System) is a C library for real-time sound source localization, tracking, separation, and post-filtering using… | 32 | 1078 | stable |
| FINN FINN is an open-source dataflow compiler from AMD/Xilinx that generates highly efficient FPGA accelerators for quantized neural network (QN… | 85 | 1077 | active |
| NVIDIA/jetson-gpio A Python library for controlling the GPIO pins on NVIDIA Jetson development boards (TX1, TX2, AGX Xavier, Nano, etc.) via their 40-pin head… | 71 | 1077 | stable |
| sipeed/TinyMaix TinyMaix is a tiny neural network inference library for microcontrollers (TinyML), with core code under 400 lines and a .text section under… | 32 | 1074 | active |
| gopcua/opcua A native Go implementation of the OPC/UA Binary Protocol for industrial automation communication. It provides client and server functionali… | 96 | 1069 | active |
| berry-lang/berry Berry is an ultra-lightweight dynamically typed embedded scripting language written in ANSI C99, designed for low-performance embedded devi… | 66 | 1069 | active |
| DepthAI DepthAI is Luxonis's Python library and SDK for developing with Luxonis OAK camera hardware, enabling spatial AI and computer vision on emb… | 66 | 1069 | active |
| vsergeev/c-periphery A small MIT-licensed C library providing userspace access to Linux peripheral I/O interfaces including GPIO, LED, PWM, SPI, I2C, MMIO, and … | 44 | 1068 | stable |
| adafruit/Adafruit_Sensor Adafruit Unified Sensor is an Arduino/C++ abstraction layer providing a common Adafruit_Sensor base class and standardized sensors_event_t … | 66 | 1067 | stable |
| willem-pennings/balancing-cube A complete open-source hardware and software project for a self-balancing cube that stands on its corner or edge using three reaction wheel… | 26 | 1067 | stable |
| Mr-MIBonk/M.I.B._More-Incredible-Bash A shell-based toolbox for patching and customizing Harman MIB2 (MHI2/MHI2Q) infotainment units in Volkswagen Group cars. It provides firmwa… | 51 | 1066 | active |
| moggieuk/Happy-Hare Happy Hare is a universal Klipper extension (Python modules and macros) that drives multi-material units (MMUs) and automated filament chan… | 72 | 1064 | active |
| ESP-Hosted ESP-Hosted is an open-source solution that lets Espressif SoCs like the ESP32 act as wireless communication co-processors, adding Wi-Fi and… | 79 | 1061 | active |
| AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C AWS's official C SDK for connecting embedded devices to AWS IoT, composed of modular libraries like coreMQTT, coreHTTP, coreJSON, and coreP… | 54 | 1058 | active |
| albertodemichelis/squirrel Squirrel is a high-level imperative, object-oriented scripting language implemented in C++, designed to be lightweight enough to embed in a… | 50 | 1055 | stable |
| ZitaoTech/HackberryPiCM5 HackberryPi_CM5 is an open-source ultra-portable handheld Linux computer built around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, featuring a 4-inch… | 32 | 1055 | active |
| github0null/eide Embedded IDE (EIDE) is a VSCode extension providing a development environment for 8051/STM8/Cortex-M/MIPS/RISC-V microcontroller projects. … | 88 | 1054 | active |
| exein-io/pulsar Pulsar is a modular, eBPF-powered runtime security and observability tool for Linux devices, written in Rust and designed for IoT and edge … | 87 | 1054 | active |
| RepRapFirmware RepRapFirmware is object-oriented C++ firmware for controlling 3D printers and related devices on ARM Cortex-based electronics such as ATSA… | 90 | 1051 | active |
| joukos/PaperTTY PaperTTY is a Python module and CLI tool that renders a Linux TTY, framebuffer, VNC desktop, images, or stdin onto SPI-connected e-ink disp… | 23 | 1050 | active |
| korginc/logue-sdk The logue SDK is KORG's official software development kit for building custom oscillators, synths, and effects ('units') for prologue, mini… | 65 | 1049 | active |
| espressif/ESP8266_RTOS_SDK Espressif's official FreeRTOS-based software development kit for the ESP8266 chip, written in C and following the esp-idf style API. It pro… | 60 | 3576 | maintenance |
| edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588 An open-source EDK2-based UEFI firmware implementation for Rockchip RK3588 SoC boards, providing a PC-like standardized boot experience. It… | 78 | 1047 | active |
| 45clouds/WirelessCarPlay C software that turns a Raspberry Pi into a bridge converting wired CarPlay into wireless CarPlay. It handles BLE and WiFi connections betw… | 32 | 1046 | active |
| Yowkees/keyball Keyball is a family of open-source split keyboards featuring an integrated 100% trackball, including the Keyball39, Keyball44, and Keyball6… | 66 | 1045 | active |
| FreeJoy FreeJoy is open-source firmware for the STM32F103C8 microcontroller that turns the board into a highly configurable USB HID game controller… | 63 | 1045 | active |
| milesburton/Arduino-Temperature-Control-Library DallasTemperature is a robust Arduino library for interfacing with Maxim (Dallas) 1-Wire temperature sensor ICs such as the DS18B20, DS18S2… | 73 | 1043 | stable |