Open source hardware 2009 – The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009

“Each year we do a guide to all open source hardware and this
year there are over 125 unique projects/kits in 19 categories, up
from about 60 in 2008, more than doubling the projects out there! –
it’s incredible! Many are familiar with Arduino (shipping over
100,000 units, estimated) but there are many other projects just as
exciting and filled with amazing communities – we think we’ve
captured nearly all of them in this list. Some of these projects
and kits are available from MAKE others from the makers themselves
or other hardware manufacturers – but since it’s open source
hardware you can make any of these yourself, start a business,
everything is available, that’s the point.

“This year, I am asking for your help – the Open source hardware
page on Wikipedia is missing more projects that it actually has
total at the moment. If any readers out there want to help out,
review all the projects we’ve listed and please add them to the
Wikipedia page so it’s a more complete resource. Also, many
projects on the Wikipedia page are not “Open source hardware” but
that will likely be debated, at the least – all of the projects in
this guide are considered open source hardware by those who
actually does open source hardware it seems.

“In this version of the guide on MAKE I will link to the product
page and if it’s sold in the Maker Shed there is an additional link
to the Maker Shed if you’d like to support OSH and get a kit or
project. For 2009, this guide became so large that it cannot fit in
to one post on MAKE so it will be divided up in to sections, 18 of
them:”

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