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Open-source hardware and robotics projects this week

Open-source RTL, PCB and CAD tools, firmware and robotics stacks that hardware engineers can build on.

Updated Nov 12, 2026. Read from 36 sources every four hours.

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  1. 1Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    HybridRobotics/supermimic

    Humanoid whole-body motion tracking with one differentiable world model.

  2. 2Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    toyxyz/toyxyz_RGBMocap

    Native Windows video motion capture with ExMR, FlowHMR and GVHMR, contact correction, humanoid retargeting, and FBX/VMD export.

  3. 3Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    LabWired allows engineers to test compiled firmware on simulated MCU boards (CPU and peripherals)

    Andrii Shylenko’s LabWired is an MIT-licensed MCU firmware simulation core that runs compiled firmware against modeled CPUs and peripherals, captures UART and bus output, register state, and supports repeatable checks in CI. The simulator works on Arm…

  4. 4Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    Releasing the first version a new open-source RTL Simulator

    Hi everyone. In case anyone here is interested in testing new stuff, I have something to announce. With the use of AI, I made a brand new RTL simulator and released the first version last week as open source. It's called Enzan. It supports Verilog, VHDL, and…

  5. 5Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    Huy-Quang-Dao/instantTrack

    Whole-body motion tracking for the Unitree G1 in under 3 minutes on average on one GPU: return 0.82 with 0/40 clips failed, held from 2.74 min (mean of 15 seeds, range 2.21-3.61, fine checkpoints), 11.87 it/s (world model + Muon + overlapped CUDA streams,…

  6. 6Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    lerobot/so101-tabletop-mujoco

  7. 7Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    Can AI agents program industrial robots without training data? Berkeley says yes

    The new RoboSimStudio is an open-source project that enables agentic AI coding of robotic simulation environments. | Credit: UC Berkeley UC Berkeley and NVIDIA have released open-source tools for a new approach: enabling teams of AI coding agents to write,…

  8. 8Open sourceWorth knowingFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    Start and Restore GPU Workloads in Seconds with NVIDIA Snapshot

    NVIDIA Snapshot, a new open-source component of the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform, makes initialized GPU workloads reusable across inference... NVIDIA Snapshot, a new open-source component of the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform, makes initialized GPU…

  9. 9Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    yzytz17/1.5-joint-module

    Ultra-low-cost robotic joint: a $1.5 FOC board inside a 1503 gimbal motor, plus a 3D-printed high-ratio precision gearbox. Cheap power, exact motion.

  10. 10Open sourceWorth knowingFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    Linux on a Tang Nano 9K

    Hi everyone! This was an experimental project. I wanted to find out whether a board as small as the Sipeed Tang Nano 9K can run Linux with some useful peripherals. It can. How it works: A bit-serial RISC-V soft CPU runs in the FPGA, with the PSRAM as main…

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  • Each item is judged for a hands-on hardware engineer (electrical, mechanical, semiconductor, embedded, robotics or manufacturing): how much it could speed up or improve real design, verification or build work this week, whether it is new, and whether there is a real product, part, project or result behind it.
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