Open Hardware IRC Channels

TimVideos Hardware Channels

• irc.freenode.net #timvideos - Primary TimVideos IRC channel
• irc.freenode.net #hdmi2usb - Channel specifically for HDMI2USB project. Most discussion goes on in #timvideos channel at the moment however.

Hardware Projects

FreeNode

• irc.freenode.net #m-labs - The "MilkyMist" / migen+misoc people
• irc.freenode.net #apertus - The "Open Source Video Camera"
• irc.freenode.net #daisho - People who did a FOSS USB3.0 core on Altera
• irc.freenode.net #openmoko - An abandoned open source mobile phone hardware.

OFTC

• irc.oftc.net #kosagi - People who are doing the Novena laptop which contains a Spartan 6 FPGA

FPGA firmware Related

FreeNode

• irc.freenode.net #opencores - Repository of open source HDL cores.
• irc.freenode.net #opencores - "Fully Open CPU".
• [irc.freenode.net ##fpga](irc://irc.freenode.net/##fpga] - General FPGA development discussion (Note the double hash!)
• [irc.freenode.net #mydhl](irc://irc.freenode.net/#mydhl] - MyHDL programming (mostly empty)

Hardware PCB / Schematic Creation

FreeNode

• irc.freenode.net #kicad - Best currently free schematic / PCB tool.
• irc.freenode.net #hackvana - Cheap place to get PCBs done.

Hacker Spaces

FreeNode

• irc.freenode.net #technest - Adelaide Hackerspace
• irc.freenode.net #robodino - Sydney Hackerspace

Potential "Clients"

• irc.freenode.net #opencat - Matterhorn capture thingy.