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More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

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Re: More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

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Post by iosifnicolae2 »

Leif24 wrote: post #34

Wow, the UX kind of sucks. I just wanted to browse the devices - no way to do that, only option is an 'ai' search. Ok, I type in "Show All Devices" and it canoodles for about 30 seconds (great use of compute resources) only to apparently come up with the phrase "Browse all devices available in the directory without specific project-based filters." that it then seems to feed into the actual search tool... which then s…

- by default, we are displaying all the devices so you can just scroll through the list - if you want to get all the devices for a specific use-case, you can setup filters

- no, the search list is not secret.. you can even convert any page to markdown https://openhardware.directory/devices/md - you just have to add /md to any page

- also, you can browse it with llms.txt (https://openhardware.directory/llms.txt)

I'm open to new ideas on how to improve the search experience

Re: More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

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Post by iosifnicolae2 »

wasmitnetzen wrote: post #38
Leif24 wrote: post #34

Wow, the UX kind of sucks. I just wanted to browse the devices - no way to do that, only option is an 'ai' search. Ok, I type in "Show All Devices" and it canoodles for about 30 seconds (great use of compute resources) only to apparently come up with the phrase "Browse all devices available in the directory without specific project-based filters." that it then seems to feed into the actual search tool... which then s…

There's a paginated list on the front page for me. Maybe already fixed?

yup :) thx for the feedback

Re: More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

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Post by iosifnicolae2 »

scientism wrote: post #24

Not commenting on the content itself (others have done it better) but anybody getting tired of seeing the same vibe coded websites over and over again?

yup, i totally agree. i was focusing on the functionalities first, later we can do a redesign to not feel like ai slop

Re: More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

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Post by iosifnicolae2 »

amstan wrote: post #3
Neywiny wrote: post #2

Feels weird to advertise a microcontroller dev board this way. But the other stuff is cool

Yeah, it's worse, half of the devices on that list are peripherals that cannot be flashed with any firmware.

yeah, it's true, but the idea was to also have some useful peripherals indexed, so when users are searching for a use case, they'd also have these plug-and-play peripherals in the search results.

but i'm open to feedback so we can make a better experience for all of you ;)

Re: More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

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Post by iosifnicolae2 »

phoronixrly wrote: post #20
Karliss wrote: post #12

The link was posted by project's author so probably should have been Show HN. Feels more like AI slop list of "a bunch of hardware that you can buy from hobbyist electronic stores" which has no idea what it wants to be, shiny on surface but deeper you look less sense it makes. Not surprised, the company who made it (likely single person) describes itself as "We're crafting interesting tools to speed up software devel…

Agreed, alarm bells started ringing with the OnePlus phone that is the very opposite of open hardware...

we are scraping the products using Claude Opus and we also saw some problems.. we will have to review everythign manually and improve (not an easy job.. but if it's useufl for people, we will do it -- i did not expected so much demand for it)

Re: More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

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Post by iosifnicolae2 »

tkel wrote: post #10
zdw wrote: post #9

There are another ~3k devices on the OpenWRT table of hardware that would fall into this category: https://toh.openwrt.org/

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...

by open, we mean that you can flash your own firmware. - but yes, we will need to check manualy each device/board or improve the Claude Opus prompt to make sure that it's doing a very good research when extracting these devices

Re: More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

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Post by iosifnicolae2 »

type0 wrote: post #29

The name is closely deceptive to sound like open-source hardware

Yes, we need to better explain our name. I was creating this website for myself because I'm a developer and I want to change the firmware on existing boards, as I don't have that much experience with electronic circuits and so on.

Re: More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

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Post by iosifnicolae2 »

sam1r wrote: post #6
jauntywundrkind wrote: post #4

Also, prices for everything is 1.5 - 2.5X.

I wonder what (api?) creators are using to programmatically calculate this pricing.

we were scraping the prices using claude code and pushed them with an mcp to the directory

Re: More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

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Post by adrianwaj »

iosifnicolae2 wrote: post #40
haddonist wrote: post #5

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 com…

Yup, it will take a bit of time until we index as many devices as possible. Also, we need to invest a bit more to make the AI search faster and much better. (If anyone has any ideas, we're open to feedback.) Also, I'm curious — how do you think we can make the device pages even better? My personal problem is that I want to find devices for a specific use case, and the issue is that it's pretty hard to extract real-li…

Great idea.

You could have discussion under each device, or else have a forum where devices can be selected and tagged. Maybe a "builds" page where devices have been implemented in end user setups.

Also, I've seen motherboards/SBCs from China where it is impossible or difficult to find Bios updates, especially in English. This is for the Mini PC market. Have you seen sbcwiki.com - they have a news, software and tutorials section. A lot of HN activity in this space: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

Another idea is to build up wishlists and ownerlists around devices. Good resource for people looking for ideas/help. Can have photos too.

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