Open-source hardware software
1351 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged hardware, ranked by how closely hardware 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.
1351 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS4-SDK An open source PlayStation 4 SDK for writing userland homebrew applications in C, run via the PS4-playground loader. It provides system cal… | 10 | 1041 | abandoned |
| shivasiddharth/GassistPi GassistPi is a Python application that turns single board computers like the Raspberry Pi into a Google Assistant-powered voice assistant. … | 40 | 1031 | abandoned |
| google/rowhammer-test A userland test program that checks DRAM modules for bit flips caused by the rowhammer problem, where repeatedly accessing memory rows dist… | 10 | 1003 | abandoned |
| hackndev/zinc Zinc is an experimental bare-metal stack for Rust targeting ARM microcontrollers, aiming to provide an RTOS-like foundation written entirel… | 10 | 1000 | abandoned |
| XiaoZhi AI Chatbot XiaoZhi is an open-source MCP-based AI voice chatbot firmware for ESP32-family microcontrollers, connecting large language models like Qwen… | 91 | 31445 | active |
| ESP-IDF ESP-IDF is the official development framework for Espressif SoCs such as the ESP32 series, providing toolchains, build system, RTOS compone… | 98 | 19217 | stable |
| ArduPilot ArduPilot is an open-source autopilot firmware suite (ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover, ArduSub) written in C++ that controls unmanned vehi… | 100 | 16081 | stable |
| Omi Omi is an open-source AI wearable and companion app ecosystem (necklace pendant, smart glasses, desktop and mobile apps) that captures conv… | 89 | 13763 | active |
| Marauder ESP32 Marauder is a suite of WiFi and Bluetooth offensive and defensive security tools distributed as firmware for ESP32-based hardware. It… | 99 | 12834 | active |
| jopohl/urh Universal Radio Hacker (URH) is a complete open-source suite for investigating wireless protocols, with native support for many common Soft… | 10 | 12592 | active |
| RT-Thread/rt-thread RT-Thread is an open-source, community-based real-time operating system (RTOS) for IoT and embedded devices, written primarily in C. It com… | 90 | 12286 | stable |
| OptiScaler OptiScaler is a Windows tool that lets gamers replace upscalers in games that already support DLSS2+/FSR2+/XeSS and manage frame generation… | 90 | 11852 | active |
| Syllo/nvtop NVTOP is an htop-like ncurses task monitor for GPUs and AI accelerators, supporting NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Apple, Huawei Ascend, Qualcomm Adre… | 85 | 11034 | active |
| xiaozhi-esp32 A self-hosted backend server for the xiaozhi-esp32 open-source smart hardware project, implementing the Xiaozhi communication protocol over… | 83 | 10810 | active |
| OpenSCAD OpenSCAD is a free, script-based solid 3D CAD modeller that compiles a description file into a 3D model using constructive solid geometry (… | 68 | 10461 | active |
| ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian A set of shell scripts and build tooling that produces Armbian (Debian/Ubuntu-based) images for Amlogic, Rockchip, and Allwinner ARM device… | 99 | 10168 | active |
| hybridgroup/gobot Gobot is a Go framework for robotics, physical computing, drones, and IoT, supporting 35+ hardware platforms including Arduino, Raspberry P… | 51 | 9476 | active |
| Pwnagotchi Pwnagotchi is an A2C deep reinforcement learning agent built on bettercap that learns from its surrounding WiFi environment to maximize cap… | 63 | 9223 | active |
| Meshtastic Meshtastic is an open-source, off-grid mesh communication system that runs on inexpensive LoRa radios, enabling long-range encrypted text m… | 94 | 8463 | active |
| PCILeech PCILeech is DMA attack software that uses PCIe hardware devices (or software memory acquisition methods) to read and write target system me… | 62 | 7945 | active |
| Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio Serial Studio is an open-source cross-platform telemetry dashboard application that turns data from embedded devices and industrial buses i… | 97 | 7221 | active |
| Bruce Bruce is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) ESP32 firmware packed with offensive-security and Red Team tools such as WiFi attacks, Evil Portal, ward… | 88 | 6946 | active |
| Bjorn Bjorn is an autonomous network scanning and offensive security tool that runs on a Raspberry Pi with a 2.13-inch e-Paper HAT. It discovers … | 58 | 6328 | active |
| lmarzen/esp32-weather-epd A low-power weather display firmware for an ESP32 microcontroller driving a 7.5-inch E-Paper panel, fetching data from the OpenWeatherMap A… | 70 | 6314 | active |
| AidLux (AidLearning) AidLux (originally AidLearning) is an AIoT development platform that runs a native Ubuntu Linux environment with GUI, deep learning tooling… | 63 | 5812 | active |
| memovai/mimiclaw MimiClaw is a bare-metal AI agent framework written in pure C that runs an OpenClaw-style personal AI assistant on a $5 ESP32-S3 microcontr… | 67 | 5802 | active |
| Armbian The official build framework for the Armbian Linux distribution, a shell-based toolchain that compiles customizable Debian- or Ubuntu-based… | 95 | 5469 | active |
| TomBadash/Mouser Mouser is a lightweight, fully local, open-source alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping buttons on Logitech HID++ mice, with the b… | 74 | 5269 | active |
| OpenWiFi Open-source full-stack IEEE 802.11/Wi-Fi design based on Software Defined Radio, including a Linux mac80211-compatible driver and software,… | 66 | 4809 | active |
| Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge Gadgetbridge is a free, open-source Android application that lets you manage and use wearable devices like Pebble, Mi Band, and Amazfit wit… | 10 | 4601 | active |
| cifertech/ESP32-DIV ESP32-DIV is open-source firmware (with open schematics and PCB files) for a custom ESP32-S3 handheld device that bundles Wi-Fi, BLE, 2.4GH… | 86 | 4146 | active |
| SpacehuhnTech/esp8266_deauther ESP8266 Deauther is open-source firmware that turns an ESP8266 microcontroller into a WiFi testing tool capable of scanning networks, sendi… | 23 | 14997 | maintenance |
| openwrt-xiaomi/xmir-patcher XMiR-Patcher is a Python-based firmware patcher for Xiaomi routers that exploits vulnerabilities to unlock SSH and install custom firmware … | 75 | 3539 | active |
| ophub/fnnas A project that builds and adapts the FnNAS operating system (a Debian-based NAS OS) for Arm64 devices powered by Amlogic, Rockchip, and All… | 78 | 3373 | active |
| Johnny-Five Johnny-Five is a Firmata protocol-based JavaScript robotics and IoT programming framework for Node.js. It provides composable, consistent A… | 23 | 13409 | maintenance |
| LukeZGD/Legacy-iOS-Kit An all-in-one shell-based tool for restoring, downgrading, jailbreaking, and saving SHSH blobs on legacy iOS devices vulnerable to bootrom … | 68 | 3092 | active |
| ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-openwrt A build and firmware distribution project that runs OpenWrt on Amlogic, Rockchip, and Allwinner TV boxes and single-board computers. It pro… | 99 | 3049 | active |
| Espruino Espruino is an open-source JavaScript interpreter and firmware for microcontrollers, designed to run on devices with as little as 128kB Fla… | 77 | 2978 | active |
| 7h30th3r0n3/Evil-M5Project Evil-M5Project is a C++ firmware/tool for M5Stack devices (Cardputer, AtomS3, Fire, Core2) that scans, monitors, and interacts with WiFi ne… | 71 | 2703 | active |
| EDL (Qualcomm Sahara/Firehose Tools) A Python CLI tool for communicating with Qualcomm devices in EDL (Emergency Download) mode via the Sahara, Firehose, Streaming, and Diag pr… | 66 | 2611 | active |
| ace-trump-tech/MindPaw MindPaw is an open-source desktop quadruped robot dog built on ESP8266 with roughly ¥50 in parts, featuring voice control, gesture recognit… | 56 | 2589 | active |
| Roboto Origin A fully open-source DIY humanoid robot project (ROBOTO_ORIGIN) that can walk and run, including all hardware designs, electronics, training… | 60 | 2537 | active |
| ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) is a reference implementation of secure world software (EL3 firmware, trusted boot, and a small trusted runtime) … | 76 | 2262 | active |
| tnm/zclaw zclaw is a personal AI assistant firmware written in C that runs entirely on ESP32 microcontrollers within a strict 888 KiB all-in firmware… | 60 | 2230 | active |
| dchristl/macless-haystack Macless-Haystack is a self-hosted application that lets you build your own Apple FindMy network tracker using OpenHaystack-compatible hardw… | 72 | 2205 | active |
| tbnobody/OpenDTU OpenDTU is ESP32 firmware that replaces the proprietary Hoymiles DTU cloud gateway for solar micro-inverters, communicating directly over t… | 93 | 2192 | active |
| cnlohr/mini-rv32ima A tiny, single-file, header-only RISC-V RV32IMA emulator written in ~400 lines of dependency-free C, capable of booting Linux (RV32-NOMMU).… | 55 | 2185 | active |
| thelastoutpostworkshop/ESPConnect ESPConnect is a zero-installation, browser-based control center for ESP32- and ESP8266-class boards that runs entirely in Chromium browsers… | 82 | 2158 | active |
| cyberman54/ESP32-Paxcounter ESP32-Paxcounter is firmware for cheap ESP32 LoRa IoT boards that counts nearby mobile devices by sniffing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals, est… | 84 | 2103 | active |
| akdeb/ElatoAI ElatoAI is an open-source platform for running realtime voice AI conversations on ESP32/Arduino hardware, supporting 100+ STT, LLM, and TTS… | 63 | 2034 | active |
| HybridRobotics/berkeley-humanoid-lite Berkeley Humanoid Lite is the open-source codebase for a sub-$5,000 3D-printed humanoid robot platform from UC Berkeley. It includes Isaac … | 51 | 1980 | active |
| jerryscript-project/jerryscript JerryScript is an ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine written in C99 for resource-constrained devices like microcontrollers, running in und… | 39 | 7418 | maintenance |
| MaximeRivest/riddle A diary-style application for the reMarkable Paper Pro e-ink tablet that turns handwritten pages into conversations with an LLM. You write … | 69 | 1922 | active |
| TuyaOpen TuyaOpen is an open-source, cross-platform C/C++ SDK and IoT OS for building AI-agent hardware on Tuya T-series MCUs, ESP32, Beken, LN882H,… | 86 | 1888 | active |
| okalachev/flix Flix is an open-source ESP32-based quadcopter flight controller and firmware built from scratch in Arduino C++, designed for education and … | 82 | 1864 | active |
| eez-open/studio EEZ Studio is a free, open-source, cross-platform low-code visual tool for designing desktop and embedded GUIs with LVGL support. It includ… | 96 | 1847 | active |
| immortalwrt-mt798x An ImmortalWrt (OpenWrt fork) variant targeting MediaTek MT798x family routers, providing a full embedded Linux firmware build system with … | 55 | 1788 | active |
| pikasTech/PikaPython PikaPython is an ultra-lightweight Python interpreter written in C that runs on microcontrollers with as little as 4KB of RAM and 64KB of f… | 81 | 1755 | active |
| s60sc/ESP32-CAM_MJPEG2SD An ESP32/ESP32-S3 camera application that detects motion and records JPEG frames to SD card as AVI files, optionally with WAV audio from a … | 93 | 1739 | active |
| tenstorrent/tt-metal TT-Metal is Tenstorrent's open-source software stack containing TT-NN, a Python and C++ neural network operator library, and TT-Metalium, a… | 99 | 1718 | active |
| airockchip/rknn-llm RKLLM is Rockchip's software stack for converting, quantizing, and running large language models on Rockchip NPU chips such as RK3588 and R… | 83 | 1704 | active |
| secluso/core Secluso is an open-source, privacy-preserving home security camera system built for Raspberry Pi, featuring end-to-end encrypted remote acc… | 69 | 1678 | active |
| nicokaiser/rpi-audio-receiver A set of installation scripts that turn a Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS Lite into a lightweight audio receiver supporting Bluetooth … | 64 | 1634 | active |
| thelastoutpostworkshop/gpio_viewer An Arduino library for ESP32 boards that serves a live web-based view of GPIO pin states for troubleshooting microcontroller projects. It i… | 73 | 1612 | active |
| Xilinx/brevitas Brevitas is a PyTorch library for neural network quantization supporting both post-training quantization (PTQ) and quantization-aware train… | 93 | 1582 | active |
| system-linux/FazJammer FazJammer is an ESP8266-based firmware project that turns a NodeMCU plus an NRF24L01+ radio module into a device that jams Wi-Fi, BLE, and … | 39 | 1562 | active |
| wfb-ng WFB-NG is a long-range packet radio link that transmits video, MAVLink telemetry, and IP traffic over raw (unconnected) WiFi frames, bypass… | 82 | 1546 | active |
| DLTcollab/sse2neon A single-header C/C++ library that translates Intel SSE (MMX through SSE4.2 and AES) intrinsics to Arm/Aarch64 NEON intrinsics. It enables … | 71 | 1531 | active |
| Reachy Mini Reachy Mini's official Python SDK for controlling Pollen Robotics' open-source expressive desktop robot, supporting the Wireless (Raspberry… | 84 | 1520 | active |
| dRoninFlight/dRonin dRonin is open-source autopilot/flight controller firmware for OpenPilot/Tau Labs family boards, supporting multirotors, planes, and helico… | 44 | 1506 | active |
| esprfid/esp-rfid ESP RFID is an open-source access control system that runs on the ESP8266 microcontroller and supports MFRC522, PN532, RDM6300, and Wiegand… | 66 | 1486 | active |
| aceinnolab/Inkycal Inkycal is a modular Python application that renders information dashboards (calendars, weather, tasks, photos, custom modules) on e-paper … | 80 | 1482 | active |
| platformio/platformio-vscode-ide PlatformIO IDE is a VSCode extension providing a full-featured integrated development environment for embedded and IoT development. It bund… | 23 | 1457 | active |
| dRehmFlight dRehmFlight is an Arduino-compatible flight controller and stabilization codebase for small-scale VTOL aircraft, built on the Teensy 4.0 mi… | 32 | 1456 | active |
| m5stack/StackChan StackChan is an open-source kawaii AI desktop robot co-created by M5Stack and its community, built around the CoreS3 (ESP32-S3) IoT develop… | 61 | 1407 | active |
| ledoge/novideo_srgb A Windows utility that clamps wide-gamut monitors to sRGB (or Display P3, Adobe RGB, BT.2020) using an undocumented NVIDIA GPU API, based o… | 23 | 1404 | active |
| joey-zhou/xiaozhi-esp32-server-java A Java enterprise-grade server and management platform for the Xiaozhi ESP32 AI voice assistant hardware, providing a full front-end/back-e… | 73 | 1380 | active |
| chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga An open-source, wire-speed hardware implementation of the WireGuard VPN protocol on a low-cost Artix-7 FPGA, written in Verilog with an ope… | 66 | 1366 | active |
| ddvk/rmfakecloud A self-hosted replacement for the reMarkable cloud that lets users sync and back up their reMarkable tablet documents on their own infrastr… | 79 | 1356 | active |
| urbanadventurer/Android-PIN-Bruteforce A shell script that turns a rooted Android device running Kali NetHunter into a USB HID keyboard that bruteforces the lockscreen PIN of a l… | 32 | 4829 | maintenance |
| espressif/esp-box ESP-BOX is Espressif's AIoT development framework for the ESP32-S3-BOX series of development boards, built on the ESP32-S3 Wi-Fi + Bluetoot… | 57 | 1321 | active |
| ionutdecebal/rsvpnano RSVP Nano is an open-source pocket-sized speed-reading device built on ESP32 that presents text one word at a time using Rapid Serial Visua… | 78 | 1312 | active |
| LekKit/RVVM RVVM is a high-performance RISC-V virtual machine and emulator written in C, featuring a tracing JIT with x86_64, ARM64, and RISC-V backend… | 67 | 1310 | active |
| SeedSigner SeedSigner is a FOSS application that turns a Raspberry Pi Zero with a camera and screen into an air-gapped, stateless Bitcoin signing devi… | 81 | 1283 | active |
| CircuitVerse CircuitVerse is a free, open-source web platform for building and simulating digital logic circuits in the browser, inspired by Logisim. It… | 76 | 1272 | active |
| Wifi Pineapple Cloner A set of shell scripts that port the WiFi Pineapple NANO/TETRA penetration-testing firmware onto generic routers and other hardware. It inc… | 61 | 1251 | active |
| raspberrypi/picamera2 Picamera2 is a Python library providing an interface to Raspberry Pi cameras via the libcamera stack, replacing the legacy Picamera library… | 90 | 1244 | active |
| Jstudner/jcorp-nomad Jcorp Nomad is an open-source offline media server that runs on an ESP32-S3 in a thumbdrive form factor, creating its own Wi-Fi hotspot to … | 85 | 1242 | active |
| EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks Custom firmware (CFW) for the Xiaomi Dafang, Xiaofang 1S, Wyzecam V2/Pan, and other Ingenic T10/T20-based IP cameras. It replaces the stock… | 32 | 4325 | maintenance |
| e2002/yoradio yoRadio is open-source firmware for building an internet web-radio player on an ESP32 microcontroller, based on the ESP32-audioI2S and ESP3… | 49 | 1204 | active |
| orangepi-xunlong/orangepi-build Official Orange Pi build framework (based on Armbian build) for creating custom Linux OS images for Orange Pi single-board computers. It su… | 75 | 1196 | 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 |
| 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 |
| PicoGK PicoGK is a compact, open-source computational geometry kernel written in C++ with a C# layer, built by LEAP 71 as the foundation for Compu… | 84 | 1142 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 100thCoin/AccuracyCoin AccuracyCoin is a NES test ROM that packs 141 hardware accuracy tests onto a single NROM cartridge, targeting an NTSC console with an RP2A0… | 64 | 1070 | active |