More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

Re:More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your o... by Leif24 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @09:27AM (#47425552)

Wow, the UX kind of sucks. I just wanted to browse the devices - no way to do that, only option is an 'ai' search. Ok, I type in "Show All Devices" and it canoodles for about 30 seconds (great use of compute resources) only to apparently come up with the phrase "Browse all devices available in the directory without specific project-based filters." that it then seems to feed into the actual search tool... which then shows no results.

Two thoughts - (1) is your device list some state secret that you have to hide behind a search functionality? Because it would be nice to be able to browse through it without needing to engage in some sort of 'search'. (2) can you provide another option besides an ai search that is so intelligent that it has superseded the ability to do wildcard searches?

Edit: same feedback, but for the projects section as well.

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Re:More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your o... by iosifnicolae2 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:04PM (#47427468)

- by default, we are displaying all the devices so you can just scroll through the list - if you want to get all the devices for a specific use-case, you can setup filters

- no, the search list is not secret.. you can even convert any page to markdown https://openhardware.directory/devices/md - you just have to add /md to any page

- also, you can browse it with llms.txt (https://openhardware.directory/llms.txt)

I'm open to new ideas on how to improve the search experience

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Re:More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your o... by wasmitnetzen on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:12AM (#47426035)

There's a paginated list on the front page for me. Maybe already fixed?

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Re:More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your o... by iosifnicolae2 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:04PM (#47427471)

yup :) thx for the feedback

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