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Home Automation

Smart homes, connected homes... If it's home, it's here.

5,103 projects83,515 members

Internet of Things

Home for embedded electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware, communicate and interact with others over the Internet.

5,009 projects57,717 members

Robotics

Everything you need to build your own robot.

2,659 projects66,762 members

Sensors

Sounds, light, proximity, weight, density, humidity, sound and more. All about sensors.

2,093 projects81,677 members

Displays

We've come a long way since the sundial.

1,606 projects34,548 members

Lights

Everything LEDs, light control and signals.

1,539 projects40,312 members

Machine Learning & AI

Algorithms and statistical models that make your favorite hardware think, act and interact with humans and machines alike.

987 projects60,886 members

Gaming

Because garage door openers aren't that fun to play with.

972 projects25,969 members

Environmental Sensing

Gather and store data like a pro.

959 projects42,885 members

Security

Protect the people and things that matter most.

899 projects42,888 members

Wearables

Quantified self, augmented reality, amplified life.

743 projects38,912 members

Health & Medical Devices

Use your brain and protect your body!

725 projects20,575 members

Music

There's so many ways to play and enjoy music. I'm sure we can find more.

645 projects25,127 members

Photos & Video

Captured, uploaded, mixed and shared over fresh raspberry pis.

632 projects17,593 members

Voice

Open the pod bay doors, HAL...

625 projects22,200 members

Vehicles

How do you get around?

610 projects29,021 members

Automotive

Discover IoT automative solutions for self-driving cars, parking, electric vehicles and more!

569 projects30,128 members

Communication

The key to world peace... or world domination?

567 projects35,203 members

Clocks

How many ways of keeping track of time can we imagine?

557 projects8,270 members

Weather

Never forget your umbrella again.

532 projects26,365 members

3D Printing

Joined or solidified, under computer control, fortified with your favorite hardware: The 3D Printing hub!

532 projects41,081 members

Art

Fine art to folk art.

477 projects9,446 members

Python on Hardware

Power your homes and bots with Python!

452 projects2,092 members

Garden

Projects you can build for your garden!

445 projects13,848 members

Sustainability

Protect this Earth with this collection of environment-friendly projects.

427 projects28,013 members

COVID-19

Projects that help detect and protect against the coronavirus, COVID-19. Be sure to join the COVID-19 Contest on our contest page and submit your project there!

418 projects3,751 members

Kids & Family

Projects that are appropriate for middle-schoolers and under.

375 projects6,926 members

Animals

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read...

343 projects9,349 members

Holidays

Hack the holidays like there's no tomorrow.

333 projects3,384 members

Drones

The place where industry and community developers can contribute to advance UAVs and drones.

285 projects42,106 members

FPGAs

FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are amazing devices that now allow developers create their very own digital circuits.

265 projects2,486 members

Plants

Machines that take care of plants for us, so we have time to make machines that take care of plants.

258 projects25,377 members

Debugging

Find out how things work inside out.

227 projects71 members

Food & Drinks

Can you ingest, imbibe, devour, or consume it? Your hack goes here!

174 projects7,108 members

Halloween Hacks

The air's getting frosty – time for frightful fun!

158 projects3,964 members

Notifications

Make it beep, blink and poke.

130 projects8,927 members

Fitness

Smaller, smarter and integrated into everything, wearing what tracks your fitness is now everywhere.

115 projects10,583 members

RetroTech

Is sticking your head in the sand still frowned upon if you discover a buried mini Nintendo NES built into a DeLorean with an Atari controller?

103 projects11,615 members

Fire & Pyrotechnics

Apply the science of using materials capable of chemical reactions and open source electronics for the production of WOW and OMG!

94 projects6,126 members

Upcycling

Share your creative transformation of by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better.

81 projects9,378 members

Virtual Reality

Welcome to the Matrix. From virtual reality headsets or multi-projected environments, simulate a user's physical presence in a virtual or imaginary environment.

67 projects19,414 members

Sports

The sweaty place we devoted to the intersection of sports and technology.

65 projects4,358 members

Science Fiction

Feel the Force.

64 projects23,291 members

Alexa Gadgets

Create Echo-connected accessories using the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit.

59 projects113 members

Cryptocurrency

Projects exploring mining, transacting and securing cryptography.

50 projects11,460 members

Badges

The home for DEFCON, handmade, one of a kind, insanely cool badges!

44 projects104 members

Augmented Reality

List of projects that have Augmented Reality Theme

39 projects19,300 members

Bikes

I want to hack my bicycle, I want to hack my bike...

34 projects11,311 members

Blockchain

Build secure, distributed hardware around blockchain.

31 projects8,145 members

Productivity

Tools, application software used for producing information, process and collaboration.

30 projects23,487 members

Astronomy

Blend celestial objects, phenomena, mathematics, physics, and Arduino in an effort to explain the universe.

21 projects13,644 members

HW101 – Deprecated

Head to https://www.hackster.io/hardware-101 for the new Hardware 101 – now with better organization. :)

19 projects10,770 members

5G

5G networks are the next generation of mobile internet connectivity, offering faster speeds and more reliable connections for connected devices.

148 members

CRISPR

A game-changing genetic engineering technique, accelerated by computational superpowers.

31 members