The governing body for open hardware
SmartHand designs open, printable, repairable versions of the everyday tools and machines you already buy — from a screwdriver to a washing machine. Free to make. Licensed to sell.
Your tools aren't really yours. Batteries are glued in. Parts can't be replaced. Every brand locks you to its own battery. Left-handers get nothing. And when one cheap part fails, the whole thing goes in the bin. Good hardware has been turned into a subscription.
One association that designs the open version of all of it — printable on any cheap FDM printer, built to be repaired forever, and owned outright. Anyone can make one at home for free. Companies that want to sell them get vetted and licensed. SmartHand becomes to open hardware what a world federation is to its sport.
Print, build, modify and repair any design forever, at no cost — just keep the SmartHand name on it.
Selling requires approval. Only vetted makers carry the brand; commercial terms are negotiated per partner.
Licensing funds the association, pays its people well, and keeps it independent — like FIFA, minus the football.
A single open, swappable SmartHand battery powers the whole range. No lock-in — the racket, reversed.
Modular, repairable, printable, accessible, non-disposable — by rule, not by marketing. Parts snap apart into pieces you can reprint, reuse and share. Nothing is sealed, glued, or thrown away. These aren't guidelines; every SmartHand design must obey them.
~30 designs, from a screwdriver to a washing machine. We start with the ones that are cheapest to make and most wanted.
From a screwdriver to a washing machine — printable, repairable, and yours. One open battery powers the lot.