Guides

Plain-English guides to open-source AI hardware: what each build does, what you need, and what its license lets you do.

Open source desk robots: AI desktop robots you can build
Open source desk robots you can build, each with a LICENSE file and a repo: Groki Bot, Stack-chan and JARVIS Desk Bot, quoted from each creator's README.
Open source duck robots on GitHub: Microduck, Open Duck Mini
Open source duck robots on GitHub: Pollen Robotics' Microduck, the 3D-printed Open Duck Mini v2 and quackd, a CLI that gives robots an LLM brain.
Open source smart glasses: AI glasses and Meta Ray-Ban apps
Open source smart glasses and AI glasses you can build or program: OpenGlass, MentraOS, OpenVision for Ray-Ban Meta and more, each with its LICENSE.

More collections

Roundups of builds already on the site. Not every project in them is open source.

Hack a gadget you already own
Hack a gadget you already own: a Kindle modded with Claude Code, an Echo Show 5 as a Home Assistant satellite, a photo frame dashboard, a Pi agent for an LG TV.
Old Kindle projects: 6 ways to reuse a Kindle
Old Kindle projects: Claude Code jailbreaking, Kindle Dash, Life Dashboard, Pad Dash, TRMNL and an AI usage display. Six ways to reuse an old Kindle.