Open Source STEAM for Makers, Tinkerers & Rebels

Campaigns

All campaigns

Back gadgets that come with their blueprints - so you can build, fix, or improve them yourself.

Live Education CERN-OHL-P

SuperSaber - Open Lightsaber Kit

A smooth-swing, sound-reactive lightsaber with swappable blade colors. Arduino-compatible.

Elise Dupont · Lyon, France

45% funded 73 backers

Live Electronics GPL-3.0

CoryDora - Open Source Macropad

A fully open-source 3×3 QMK macropad with hotswap switches and USB-C. Made in Bengaluru.

Balu B · Bengaluru, India

72% funded 58 backers

Project folio

Live Electronics CERN-OHL-S

Lampy - The Open-Source Desk Lamp

A modular, repairable LED desk lamp with adjustable color temperature.

Priya Sharma · Bengaluru, India

142% funded 238 backers

Requests

All requests

Suggest something that should exist. The community shapes the idea, and a maker brings it to life.

Open-Source Water Purifier

341 votes · Sustainability

Open-Source Water Testing Kit

298 votes · Science

Modular Figurine System for Sci-Fi Props & Shorts

187 votes · 3D Printing

Makers

All makers

Meet the people who actually build things - and share exactly how they did it.

Kenji Tanaka Education · Osaka, Japan

Curriculum DesignArduinoLaser Cutting

Tomasz Wilk Firmware · Warsaw, Poland

ESP32RustJTAG

Elise Dupont Firmware · Lyon, France

FPGAVerilogRISC-V

Events

All events

Meetups, workshops, and talks for curious people - starting in Bengaluru.

Jul 5

Soldering Saturday

2:00 PM - 7:00 PM IST

Bengaluru · workshop

Jul 5

Embedded Rust Hack Night

6:00 PM - 11:00 PM IST

Bengaluru · hackathon

Jul 10

3D Printing Open Lab

4:00 PM - 8:00 PM IST

Bengaluru · workshop

FAQ

All questions

What is Ooru?

Ooru is an open-source STEAM platform built by Absurd Industries, based in Bengaluru, India. 'Ooru' means village in Kannada and Telugu - we're building a digital community where makers, tinkerers, engineers, artists, and the endlessly curious come together to build hardware and software in the open. Everything we make ships with full source files.

How do campaigns work?

Makers launch crowdfunding campaigns for open-source hardware projects. Each campaign includes a bill of materials, schematics, firmware, and CAD files. You back a project you believe in, the maker builds it, and you get both the product and the knowledge to build it yourself.

How do requests work?

Anyone can describe something that should exist but doesn't. The community upvotes, discusses, and refines the spec. When a maker picks up a request, it becomes a campaign. Your idea could become a real product backed by the community.