Home › Entities › practices › open hardware

open hardware

hardware whose design documents are openly accessible to and modifiable by others
class practices Q159172
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

open hardware

Summary

open hardware has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1]

Key Facts

  • open hardware is a type of physical tool[2].
  • open hardware is a type of computer hardware[3].
  • open hardware is a type of work[4].
  • open hardware's Commons category is recorded as Open hardware[5].
  • open hardware's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Open-source hardware[6].
  • open hardware's has characteristic is recorded as free license[7].

Why It Matters

open hardware has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

Related Entities

32blit Air Quality Egg Amber Antropo Arduino/Genuino MEGA 2560 Arduinome Arduino Yún BeagleBone Ben NanoNote Big Dot Bus Pirate computer hardware Cube DyRET - Dynamic Robot for Embodied Testing Escornabot ESPboy Ethernut ExpressLRS FGC-9 Florence RadiativE paSsive Cooling Open (FRESCO-Board) Freaduino Mega 2560 v1.2. GBoard Stick Version GreatFET One HackRF One Hand Exoskeleton with 3D printing IceZUM Alhambra rev1 karaloop Kura Curiosa LANDRS Science Drone LANDRS Science Drone Hex1

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). open hardware. Retrieved March 8, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/open-hardware
MLA “open hardware.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 8 Mar. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/open-hardware.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_open-hardware_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{open hardware}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/open-hardware}, note = {Accessed: 2026-03-08}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): open hardware — https://4ort.xyz/entity/open-hardware (retrieved 2026-03-08)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/open-hardware · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14d ago · AbcSxyZ · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → free license
    Logo → —
    Quora topic id (spanish) → —
    Quora topic → —
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q39162]]"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.