Hardware Engineering

ReadySET is an open source project to produce and maintain a library of reusable software engineering document templates. These templates provide a ready starting point for the documents used in software development projects. Using good templates can help developers work more quickly, but they... Platforms: *nix

Dmidecode project reports information about your systems hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS and DMI standard (see a sample output). This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of... Platforms: *nix

LinuxBIOS project is aimed at replacing the normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware initialization and a compressed Linux kernel that can be booted from a cold start. The project was started as part of clustering research work in the Cluster Reseach Lab at the Advanced Computing Laboratory at... Platforms: *nix

Optimus OLED Keyboard Linux Driver project is intended to provide a generic linux driver for OLED-based hardware made by Art. Lebedev Studio. The current goal is to support the Optimus Mini Three keyboard.. Platforms: *nix

lm_sensors provides essential drivers for monitoring the temperatures, voltages, and fans of Linux systems with hardware monitoring devices. It contains drivers for sensor chips and I2C and SMBus masters, text-based tools for sensor reporting, and a library for sensors access called libsensors.... Platforms: *nix

Asftavm is an AfterStep dock/wharf app which displays all the information provided by the monitoring hardware you have installed in your computer which is supported by lmsensors. It also displays the temperature of your harddisks as reported by hddtemp. You can configure the time interval of... Platforms: *nix

PBButtons is a daemon to handle special hardware on the Apple iBook/PowerBook/TiBook. It controls the display brightness, the sound volume, mutes the sound, changes the trackpad mode, puts the machine to sleep, or ejects the CDROM on command. PBButtonsd project also provides basic power... Platforms: *nix

KnoSciences is a Knoppix bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KnoSciences is not necessary to install anything. Sciences Software. Platforms: *nix

Flock of Birds Library (libfob) provides an interface to the Flock of Birds hardware. Tedious and error prone tasks such as configuring the flocks data mode, sending commands to the flock, and decoding the data received from the flock are all hidden behind libfobs interface. Programming the... Platforms: *nix

HCS Open Source Project consists of a do-it-yourself home automation hardware and software system. The HCS Open Source Project is a stand-alone home automation control system which consists of hardware (main controllers and remote networked controllers) and software to monitor and control... Platforms: *nix

Audio::Play is an interface for Audio::Data to hardware. SYNOPSIS use Audio::Data; use Audio::Play; $audio = Audio::Data->new(...) $svr = Audio::Play->new; $svr->play($audio); Audio::Play is an wrapper class which loads Audio::Play::$^O i.e. a per-platform driver. Each class... Platforms: *nix

PyReverse is a set of tools for reverse engineering Python code. So far, it features dependency analysis tools, documentation generation, and XMI generation for importation in a UML modeling tool. A special module can be used to generate files readable by Argo UML. currently PyReverse build a... Platforms: *nix

PAPI aims to provide the tool designer and application engineer with a consistent interface and methodology for use of the performance counter hardware found in most major microprocessors. PAPI enables software engineers to see, in near real time, the relation between software performance and... Platforms: *nix

projectM is a XMMS visualization plugin which uses 3D hardware accelerated iterative image based rendering. projectM is basically a reimplementation of Milkdrop under OpenGL. projectM already does some things Milkdrop does not (like infinite custom shapes/waves). projectM should run anywhere... Platforms: *nix

Auto-autofs is a Perl script that searches the hardware for block devices using the /proc directory. The project finds partitions on harddisks via fdisk and tries to detect the filesystems. The script generates also automounter entries for all ISO (or other loopback) files in special folders.... Platforms: *nix

TCPreen is a simple tool to monitor and analyze data transmitted between clients and servers through connection-oriented streams data such as a TCP sessions; it supports TCP over either IPv4 or IPv6. This tool focuses on the data stream (software/socket layer), not on the lower level transmission... Platforms: *nix

OpenHPI is an open source project created with the intent of providing an implementation of the SA Forums Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). HPI provides an abstracted interface to managing computer hardware, typically for chassis and rack based servers. OpenHPI project includes resource... Platforms: *nix

OpenHPI is an open source project created with the intent of providing an implementation of the SA Forums Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). HPI provides an abstracted interface to managing computer hardware, typically for chassis and rack based servers. OpenHPI SNMP Subagent project includes... Platforms: *nix

LCD2USB is a open source/open hardware project. LCD2USB was meant to be cheap and to be made of easily available parts. It is therefore based on the Atmel AVR Mega8 CPU and does not require any difficult to obtain parts like separate USB controllers and the like. The total cost (without display... Platforms: *nix

i2c-tiny-usb is a open source/open hardware project. Attach any I2C client chip (thermo sensors, AD converter, displays, relais driver, ...) to your PC via USB ... quick, easy and cheap! Drivers for Linux, Windows and MacOS available. The i2c-tiny-usb project is an open source/open hardware... Platforms: *nix