More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

5 comments

• haddonist 2 hours ago
  Looks good, but it'll probably take a while until it's anywhere close to the coverage of existing repositories:

  https://templates.blakadder.com/ has almost 3,000 devices flashable onto Tasmota firmware.

  For older Tuya devices there's https://github.com/tuya-cloudcutter/tuya-cloudcutter

  OpenBeken https://github.com/openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T_App covers 800 of the newer generation Tuya devices.

  And there's a large community adapting ESP32 devices onto https://esphome.io/
• Neywiny 3 hours ago
  Feels weird to advertise a microcontroller dev board this way. But the other stuff is cool
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  • amstan 3 hours ago
    Yeah, it's worse, half of the devices on that list are peripherals that cannot be flashed with any firmware.
• randyrand 1 hour ago
  more often than not, you could just buy the same new CPU on the open market and swap it in. It bypasses secure boot, etc.
• zdw 1 hour ago
  There are another ~3k devices on the OpenWRT table of hardware that would fall into this category: https://toh.openwrt.org/
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  • tkel 32 minutes ago
    This is "Open Hardware" which usually means open PCB or chip schematics, so people can modify or extend the board. OpenWRT is "Open Software that runs on closed hardware".

    After checking a couple, Kind of seems like a lot of boards on this "open hardware" list might not actually be open hardware?

    Here's an example of what open hardware is supposed to be: https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/tree/master/h...
• jauntywundrkind 2 hours ago
  Also, prices for everything is 1.5 - 2.5X.
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  • sam1r 1 hour ago
    I wonder what (api?) creators are using to programmatically calculate this pricing.
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    • sam1r 1 hour ago
      I strongly feel that each board should display pricing in two ways 1. Market price. buy now price. 2. Get it used (used market price).