List of Open Hardware Organizations

From Gosh! 2009: Open Source Hardware Summit

Not-For-Profit

• Open Hardware Initiative Lobbying Open Source Hardware

• Eyebeam Atelier open source hardware lab

• Open Hardware Foundation

• Piksel festival for free/libre and open source audiovisual software, hardware and art

• North-by-South, a San Francisco-based company specializing in open source development projects in the Americas

• OPENSOURCE Art, an alternative art space accommodating a variety of non-traditional, community-oriented art projects and events in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois

• Craslab Le centre des ressources art sensitif

• The Next Layer: Interesting blog on art, politics and free and open source software

• Mamalala

• Open Collector open electronics info

• Tactical Technology Collective: Amsterdam-based NGO founded in 2001. Tactical Technology Collective’s mission is to improve the IT capabilities of NGOs working in the developing world.

• The Open Tool Box, a "consulting group that utilizes the power of open source to create solutions that build life-embracing communities at all levels of economic welfare and risk exposure."

• Geoecology Energy Organisation (GEO): Hyderabad, India - based NGO. GEOs has been working on Geoecology, Climate change, Energy, Environment and Development aspects, also into research and design, declared all its Knowledge and Technology as Open Source Technology.

Business

• Open Pattern- Embedded Systems Engineering (OSH) - Paris, France

• Make Magazine- promotes DIY and OSH culture

• Adafruit (OSH electronics)- New York USA

• Oomlout (OSH electronics)- Vancouver BC

• Liquidware (OSH electronics)- USA

• Modern Device Company (OSH electronics)- Rhode Island, USA

• Evil Mad Scientist (OSH electronics)- USA

• Traversal Technologies- U.K.

• SparkFun Electronics- Colorado USA (e.g. Lilypad, Arduino pro and PCB design libraries)

• NORTD (OSH + OSS multitouch)- New York USA and Austria EU