Heisenboard LLC · Open Automotive Hardware
Heisenboard designs controllers for cars, trucks and machines, and publishes the schematics, board layouts and firmware so you can see how they work and change them.
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Most vehicle controllers are sealed boxes. The schematic is confidential, the firmware is a binary, and when the controller doesn't do what you need, your options are a feature request or a different supplier.
Heisenboard does it differently. We design automotive electronics in the open: the schematics, PCB layouts and firmware are published under open licenses, so anyone can check the design, build their own, or adapt it.
Open doesn't have to mean hobby-grade. Our boards use AEC-Q qualified semiconductors and passives and are designed against the usual automotive standards for supply range, transients and emissions. We publish the analysis too, and we label what has been calculated and what has been tested on real hardware.
Our firmware runs on TockOS, an embedded operating system written in Rust. Each application runs in its own memory region, so a bug in one application can't corrupt another or the kernel.
Development is posted as it happens. Questions, ideas or interest in early boards are welcome.
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