# Open source hardware

Concept · [Technical basics](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/technical)

Also called: open hardware, OSHW, open-source hardware, open source hardware group

[Physical products](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hard-tech) whose design files are published so anyone can study, change, make and sell the design or hardware based on it.

**For example:** A team publishes the circuit design for a sensor board under an open hardware [license](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/licensing). Another company makes and sells its own boards from that design.

## Connects to (14)

- [Open source](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/open-source): Software whose code is published for anyone to read, use and build on, under a license that sets the rules for doing so.
- [Hard tech](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hard-tech): Companies whose product rests on physical engineering or new science, such as machines, materials or devices.
- [Prototype](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/prototype): An early, rough version of a product made to test an idea or show others what you mean.
- [Intellectual property](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/intellectual-property): Things you create that can be owned, such as code, designs, brand names and inventions.
- [Makerspace](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/makerspace): A shared workshop with tools such as 3D printers, laser cutters and electronics benches that members can use.
- [Fab Lab Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/fab-lab-tulsa): A nonprofit makerspace in Tulsa.
- [OKC Open Source Hardware](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/okc-open-source-hardware): An Oklahoma City user group in the Techlahoma network for people who build open source hardware and electronics.
- [Mesh network](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/mesh-network): A network where devices pass data to each other instead of each one needing its own connection to the internet, so it can cover places…
- [Raspberry Pi](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/raspberry-pi): A small, low-cost computer on a single board, used for learning, prototypes and sensors.
- [Arduino](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/arduino): An open-source electronics platform of small boards and free software for building devices that read sensors and control lights and motors.
- [Meshtastic](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meshtastic): An open-source project that uses small, cheap radios to send text messages over a mesh network without cell service or internet.
- [Zero Tolerance Coffee](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/zero-tolerance-coffee): A veteran-owned coffee house and bean-to-bar chocolate maker in the Britton district of Oklahoma City, founded in 2019 and now called SIYO…
- [Idea Forge Foundation](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/idea-forge-foundation): A 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation in Oklahoma City that supports Oklahoma's innovators, entrepreneurs and creators.
- [Maker Faire Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/maker-faire-tulsa): A yearly family-friendly show and tell in Tulsa where engineers, artists, scientists and crafters show what they have made.

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