In a sense, this was a first step toward open-source hardware.

It has also given rise to the rapidly expanding open-source hardware movement.

There are many applicable business models for implementing some open-source hardware even in traditional firms.

Open-source hardware consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open design movement.

However, recent developments in open-source hardware designs, at least one of which is commercially available for purchase, have brought the price down significantly.

Many can be found at OpenCores, a foundation that attempts to make open-source hardware designs available.

Open-source hardware evolves through community cooperation.

Rather than creating a new license, some open-source hardware projects simply use existing, free and open-source software licenses.

Extensive discussion has taken place on ways to make open-source hardware as accessible as open-source software.

Open-source hardware group puts out vid system-on-a-chip.

While open-source hardware faces challenges in minimizing cost and reducing financial risks for individual project developers, some community members have proposed models to address these needs.

Recently, the development have utilizied open source principles borrowed from the software industry to rapidly improve low-cost open-source hardware for scientific measurements.

Examples of open-source hardware initiatives are:

This departure from the previous open-source hardware model has been criticized by part of the community, including co-founder and now former employee, Zachary Smith.

The BUGvonHippel is a breakout board module and an example of open-source hardware.

OpenROV is an open-source hardware project.

OpenSPARC was an open-source hardware project started in December 2005.

In addition there has been considerable work to produce open-source hardware for scientific hardware using a combination of open-source electronics and 3-D printing.

An open-source car is a car with open design-designed as open-source hardware, using open-source principles.

Since the rise of reconfigurable programmable logic devices, sharing of logic designs has been a form of open-source hardware.

The principles of open source have been adapted for many forms of user-generated content and technology, including open-source hardware, Wikipedia, and open-access publishing.

Open design involves the making of both free and open-source software (FOSS) as well as open-source hardware.

An open-source hardware device developed by Qi Hardware, it has been called possibly "the world's smallest Linux laptop for the traditional definition of the word."

It's very popular in the open-source hardware modification community due to its relative inexpensiveness, ease of use for beginners, and most importantly, its freely available software tools.

Recent work combining open-source hardware of microcontrollers like the Arduino and RepRap 3-D printers, very low-cost scientific instruments have been developed.