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by tkel 95 days ago
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...

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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
Yeah, that OnePlus phone is defo the very opposite of open hardware...
If one's looking for an actual open hardware smartphone: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/hw/l5-schematic