10 of the Most incredible Open Source Hardware projects born in 2013

This post celebrates a few of the most incredible Open Source Hardware projects from 2013. Most of these projects were crowdfunded, and I believe this tells much about how innovations is funded and encouraged these days. 2013 was a year full of open innovations and 2014 looks largely promising as both huge companies and independent developers and startups increasingly look at this approach to innovation.

July: Open Source Instruments Red Pitaya ...

August: Fabtotum the personal fabricator merging design and technology ...

August: Hacking RF in Open Source ...

September: Tabby – The Open Source Vehicle ...

September: The Phonebloks vision for the Smartphone of the future ...

October: Poppy, an open and affordable humanoid robot to experiment with ...

October: Shamduino shows that Open Source hardware has no frontiers ...

November: Helium, an Open Source, supercapacitor-powered portable Speaker ...

November: A Metal 3D printer that cost less than $2000 ...

December: OpenBCI, an Open Source Brain Computer Interface for the masses ...