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Embedded & IoT open-source projects

OpenSrc lists 60 repositories about Embedded & IoT with open issues for new contributors, and 31 of them are first-PR friendly. Between them they have 680 open good first issues and 1,260 help-wanted issues. The median welcome score is 74/100, and the best-scored right now are ArduPilot/ardupilot, project-chip/connectedhomeip and MarlinFirmware/Marlin. Most are written in C++, C and Rust. Many also touch OS & Systems and Machine Learning & AI.

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ArduPilot/ardupilot
ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover, ArduSub source
47good first issues
- C++
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:16K
- committed 4h ago
- GPL-3.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~2d
Score92 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
project-chip/connectedhomeip
Matter (formerly Project CHIP) creates more connections between more objects, simplifying development for…
11good first issues
- C++
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:9K
- committed just now
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~6h
Score89 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
MarlinFirmware/Marlin
Marlin is a firmware for RepRap 3D printers optimized for both 8 and 32 bit microcontrollers. Marlin…
4good first issues+6 help wanted
- C++
- Field: Embedded
- Field: Graphics
- Stars:17.6K
- committed 1h ago
- GPL-3.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~5h
Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
meshtastic/firmware
The official firmware for Meshtastic, an open-source, off-grid mesh communication system.
9good first issues+42 help wanted
- C++
- Field: Embedded
- Field: Networking
- Stars:8.4K
- committed 8h ago
- GPL-3.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~35h
Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
cyberbotics/webots
Webots Robot Simulator
8good first issues
- C++
- Field: Scientific Computing
- Field: Machine Learning
- Stars:4.7K
- committed 2d ago
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~23h
Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
e-m-b-a/emba
EMBA - The firmware security analyzer
9good first issues+10 help wanted
- Shell
- Field: Embedded
- Field: Security
- Stars:3.7K
- committed 1d ago
- GPL-3.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~5h
Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
qmk/qmk_firmware
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
3good first issues+288 help wanted
- C
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:20.7K
- committed 3d ago
- GPL-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~10h
Score86 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
rerun-io/rerun
Visualize, query, and stream to train on multimodal robotics data.
8good first issues+6 help wanted
- Rust
- Field: Embedded
- Field: Machine Learning
- Stars:11.5K
- committed 2d ago
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~2d
Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
armbian/build
The official build framework for the Armbian Linux distribution. This repository contains the complete…
12good first issues+7 help wanted
- Shell
- Field: OS
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:5.5K
- committed 1h ago
- GPL-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~3h
Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
zmkfirmware/zmk
ZMK Firmware Repository
7good first issues+14 help wanted
- C
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:4.3K
- committed 3d ago
- MIT
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~6h
Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
tursodatabase/turso
A SQL database in Rust: SQLite-compatible, now also speaking Postgres (experimental). The LLVM of databases.
18good first issues+41 help wanted
- Rust
- Field: Databases
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:24.4K
- committed 1h ago
- MIT
- CONTRIBUTING
Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
ros-navigation/navigation2
ROS 2 Navigation Framework and System
6good first issues+13 help wanted
- C++
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:4.8K
- committed 8h ago
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~11h
Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
dotnet/runtime
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
14good first issues+393 help wanted
- C#
- Field: DevOps
- Field: Mobile
- Stars:18.3K
- committed 4h ago
- MIT
- CONTRIBUTING
Score83 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
EdgeTX/edgetx
EdgeTX is the cutting edge open source firmware for your R/C radio
4good first issues+1 help wanted
- C
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:2.4K
- committed just now
- GPL-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~4h
Score83 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
cvxpy/cvxpy
A Python-embedded modeling language for convex optimization problems.
7good first issues+15 help wanted
- C++
- Field: Scientific Computing
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:6.3K
- committed 3d ago
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~4d
Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming
lancedb/lancedb
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
16good first issues+7 help wanted
- Rust
- Field: Databases
- Field: Machine Learning
- Stars:11.6K
- committed 3h ago
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
Score81 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
oceanbase/seekdb
The AI-Native Search Database. Best for agent storage, it unifies vector, text, structured, and…
3good first issues+9 help wanted
- C++
- Field: Databases
- Field: Machine Learning
- Stars:3.1K
- committed 1d ago
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~2d
Score81 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
atomvm/AtomVM
Tiny Erlang VM
9good first issues+6 help wanted
- Erlang
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:2.2K
- committed 11h ago
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
Score80 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
questdb/questdb
QuestDB is a high performance, open-source, time-series database
19good first issues+10 help wanted
- Java
- Field: Databases
- Field: Data Science
- Stars:17.4K
- committed 14h ago
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~30d
Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming
RaspAP/raspap-webgui
The easiest, full-featured wireless router setup for Debian-based devices. Period.
7good first issues
- PHP
- Field: Embedded
- Field: Networking
- Stars:5.2K
- committed 5h ago
- GPL-3.0
- CONTRIBUTING
Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
crate/crate
CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in near…
4good first issues+24 help wanted
- Java
- Field: Databases
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:4.4K
- committed just now
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~2d
Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
slint-ui/slint
Slint is an open-source declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, JavaScript, or…
5good first issues
- Rust
- Field: Web Frontend
- Field: Compilers
- Stars:24K
- committed just now
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~31h
Score78 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
chipsalliance/chisel
Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language
6good first issues+1 help wanted
- Scala
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:4.8K
- committed 11h ago
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
Score78 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
gazebosim/sdformat
Simulation Description Format (SDFormat) parser and description files.
7good first issues+26 help wanted
- C++
- Field: Scientific Computing
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:220
- committed 9h ago
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
Score77 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
RT-Thread/rt-thread
RT-Thread is an open source IoT Real-Time Operating System (RTOS)…
17good first issues
- C
- Field: Embedded
- Field: OS
- Stars:12.3K
- committed 18h ago
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~30d
Score76 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming
cryptoadvance/specter-desktop
A desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core optimised to work with hardware wallets
13good first issues+3 help wanted
- Python
- Field: Blockchain
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:849
- committed 4w ago
- MIT
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~9h
Score76 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS…
7good first issues
- C
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:16.6K
- committed 2h ago
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~5h
Score75 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
mihai-dinculescu/tapo
🦀 Rust API, 🐍 Python API, and 🤖 MCP Server for TP-Link Tapo smart devices
7good first issues+8 help wanted
- Rust
- Field: Embedded
- Field: Backend
- Stars:809
- committed 11h ago
- MIT
- CONTRIBUTING
Score75 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly
portapack-mayhem/mayhem-firmware
The firmware for the HackRF+PortaPack H1/H2/H4/H4M
10good first issues+1 help wanted
- C
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:5.4K
- committed 1d ago
- GPL-3.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~26d
Score74 out of 100 contributor score, welcoming
Scottcjn/Rustchain
Sybil-resistant AI agent network with hardware-attested identity. Proof-of-Antiquity blockchain: physical…
12good first issues+10 help wanted
- Python
- Field: Blockchain
- Field: Embedded
- Stars:835
- committed 19h ago
- Apache-2.0
- CONTRIBUTING
- replies in ~30d
Score74 out of 100 contributor score, welcoming

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