# pixhawk/Hardware

PX4 Hardware designs

Repository: https://github.com/pixhawk/Hardware
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hardware
Language: Shell
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-08-25T14:56:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5142, "days_push": 1469, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1369, forks 927 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:31.774655+00:00)

## What it is
A repository of open-source hardware designs from the Pixhawk project, including autopilot (FMU) schematics, ESCs, and optical flow sensor designs for unmanned vehicles. It provides the specifications and reference layouts needed to build firmware-compatible Pixhawk hardware.

## Use cases
- design a custom autopilot board compatible with PX4 or ArduPilot
- find FMUv5 schematics and pinout definitions for a drone flight controller
- build an open-hardware ESC or optical flow sensor for a UAV
- manufacture a Pixhawk-compatible flight controller product
- study reference PCB layouts for open autopilot hardware

## When to choose
- you are building or manufacturing autopilot hardware compatible with PX4/ArduPilot
- you need open schematics, BOMs, or PCB layouts for drone components
- you want to study or modify open flight-controller designs

## When to avoid
- you need flight stack firmware or software rather than hardware designs
- you want a ready-made commercial flight controller
- you need a license-clarified codebase, since no license is specified in the repo metadata

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: maintenance
- function: embedded, developer-tools, documentation
- domain: hardware, robotics, embedded-systems, autonomous-vehicles
- platform: embedded, iot
- tags: open-hardware, autopilot, flight-controller, fmu, esc, pcb-design, schematics, drones, px4, ardupilot

## Member repositories
- pixhawk/Hardware (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:31.774655+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:41:00.592411+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pixhawk/Hardware (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:31.774655+00:00, sha 5fb77af89631)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.