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Custos is an open-source, modular, AI-powered physical security intelligence platform designed to provide secure, privacy-first infrastructure without vendor lock-in. Built around Zero Trust principles, open identity, edge AI, and resilient offline operation, Custos enables organizations and individuals to deploy intelligent, vendor-neutral security systems while maintaining full ownership of their data, hardware, and future. https://roxanneardary.com/custos/

OpenLimb is an open-source modular robotics platform designed to make robotic limbs, wearable systems, and industrial robotics more accessible, customizable, and transparent. Combining open hardware, AI-assisted engineering, legal AI protection, provenance tracking, and community-driven development, OpenLimb provides a foundation for building the next generation of human-centered and industrial robotic technologies. https://roxanneardary.com/openlimb/

QGuardian Registry is an open-source quantum hardware compatibility layer that standardizes and indexes quantum device capabilities—such as native gate sets, qubit topology, and fidelity metrics—to enable automatic hardware discovery, matching, and integration across the quantum computing ecosystem. https://roxanneardary.com/qguardian-registry/

QGuardian — Fidelity First is an open-source quantum computing platform that ensures reliable and reproducible execution of quantum circuits by automatically matching circuits to compatible hardware, enforcing fidelity thresholds, and reducing errors through native gate awareness and global hardware profiling. https://roxanneardary.com/qguardian/

The Universal Appliance Standard (UAS) is an open-source framework for designing modular, customizable, and energy-efficient appliances. It combines virtual-first CAD design, advanced materials research, AI-assisted sourcing and manufacturing, standardized testing, local production, repairability, and upgradeable components to create appliances that can be built, improved, and maintained anywhere. https://roxanneardary.com/universal-appliance-standard/

AeroGrid is an open source, modular platform for autonomous AI-powered weather drones designed to perform and expand upon the capabilities of traditional weather balloons. Combining reusable high-altitude aircraft, advanced atmospheric sensors, real-time data streaming, and intelligent weather forecasting, AeroGrid creates a distributed network for continuous atmospheric observation, severe weather monitoring, and community-driven meteorological research. https://roxanneardary.com/aerogrid/

OhmPi is an open hardware resistivity meter to provide the scientific community with a robust and flexible tool for monitoring experiments. Documentation: https://ohmpi.org

VeritasVote is an open-source, tamper-evident in-person voting machine. Fully auditable, cryptographically verifiable, and backed by paper ballots, it provides transparent and secure elections. Hardware and software are fully open for inspection, ensuring every vote can be trusted. https://roxanneardary.com/veritasvote/

ValidationOS is an open-source, local-first AI assurance platform that transforms AI performance into proven results. It provides tools for validating, optimizing, certifying, and monitoring AI models across edge hardware environments through automated testing, compatibility analysis, performance benchmarking, observability, and compliance workflows. https://roxanneardary.com/validationos/

GuardianNX is a modular, AGPL-3.0+ open source home security operating system designed to eliminate vendor lock-in through fully replaceable hardware and software components. It integrates edge AI surveillance, encrypted sensor networks, and autonomous response systems into a unified, privacy-first platform that operates locally by default and remains fully functional without cloud dependency. https://roxanneardary.com/guardiannx/

The AI and the Automobile collection brings together multiple specifications that define how AI integrates into modern vehicle systems, treating the automobile as a software-defined platform where intelligence spans perception, control, navigation, and energy management. It emphasizes real-time performance, safety-critical architecture, and the transition from purely mechanical systems to continuously evolving software-driven mobility. Across the collection, the specs also describe how automotive AI should be built through open and interoperable systems with strong safety practices, including simulation, validation pipelines, and human-in-the-loop oversight to handle edge cases. Together, they frame vehicle intelligence as a layered system combining autonomy, redundancy, diagnostics, and secure update mechanisms to enable reliable and scalable deployment. https://roxanneardary.com/ai-and-the-automobile/

Idea2Reality is an AGPL-3.0+ open-source industrial intelligence platform that transforms ideas into manufacturable hardware and software systems, optimizing across manufacturing, logistics, geography, labor, and cost. It integrates AI-driven design, real-world feasibility analysis, 3D system visualization, workforce and apprenticeship mapping, and continuous memory-based learning to generate end-to-end production and execution plans. https://roxanneardary.com/idea2reality/

OpenDiagnose is an open-source, AGPL-3.0+ modular diagnostic system that turns real-world visual input into structured, actionable repair guidance. Using wearable or edge-connected vision hardware, interchangeable AI models, and domain-specific knowledge packs, it identifies faults across mechanical, electrical, agricultural, and infrastructure systems. Designed as a commons-driven platform, it separates hardware, software, and diagnostic logic into replaceable modules so the system can evolve without vendor lock-in or closed components. https://roxanneardary.com/opendiagnose/

OpenChrona is an open-source AI-powered horology platform designed to explore, simulate, and build every major form of timekeeping technology across history. From ancient sundials and water clocks to mechanical escapements, quartz systems, digital displays, and atomic synchronization, it provides a unified environment for learning, designing, and visualizing clocks. Combining modular engineering tools, interactive physics simulation, and AI-assisted guidance, OpenChrona makes the science and art of timekeeping accessible, explorable, and reproducible for everyone. https://roxanneardary.com/openchrona/

LunaSphere is an open AGPL-3.0+ specification for designing and simulating the development of a self-sustaining lunar civilization. It defines the architecture for building habitats, life support systems, resource generation, manufacturing, transportation networks, launch infrastructure, and the technologies required to expand humanity beyond Earth. https://roxanneardary.com/lunasphere/

OpenProto is an open-source platform for discovering, evaluating, and optimizing hardware designs across public repositories, then converting them into fully sourced, manufacturable outputs for 3D printing, electronics, and other fabrication systems. It combines hardware intelligence, cost and performance optimization, and a human-in-the-loop approval system to ensure all designs are safe, buildable, and production-ready. https://roxanneardary.com/openproto/

The Modular Non-Invasive BCI Engineering Platform is an open-source, AGPL-3.0+ neuroengineering framework designed to unify wearable brain-computer interfaces, hardware abstraction, and real-time neural decoding into a single modular system. It enables developers to build, simulate, and deploy EEG-based applications through interchangeable wearable and hardware modules, supported by machine learning pipelines, sleep and dream state analysis, hardware development tooling, and legal assurance systems for design validation and compliance. https://roxanneardary.com/modular-non-invasive-bci-engineering-platform/

LAVE (Low-Altitude Vehicle Experiment) is an open-source research platform exploring human-scale hover in the sub-meter regime using distributed electric thrust, real-time stabilization, and fully transparent hardware and software systems. Built for reproducibility and experimentation rather than productization, it focuses on measuring the unstable transition between ground contact and sustained flight, with all telemetry, failures, and design iterations openly shared as part of the research process. https://roxanneardary.com/lave/

KineticKind is an open-source SUV platform designed to make entering and exiting a vehicle safe, comfortable, and dignified through intelligent seat-assist technology. By combining rotating lift seats, accessibility-focused engineering, and a fully open development model, the project reimagines mobility around real human movement rather than mechanical constraints. Built under the AGPL-3.0+ license, KineticKind invites a global community to collaborate on creating more inclusive transportation for everyone. https://roxanneardary.com/kinetickind/

Conduit Systems is an open-source system architecture platform for designing, simulating, and orchestrating data movement across chiplet-based computing systems. It focuses on memory-to-compute pathways, enabling modular hardware design, simulation-driven validation, and runtime-aware scheduling. Built under AGPL-3.0+, it serves as the foundation for next-generation AI and high-performance computing architectures. https://roxanneardary.com/conduitsystems/