Hardware Tools
71 best Hardware tools and apps, curated and ranked by community upvotes on ProductCool. Updated daily as new Hardware products launch.
An AI circuit copilot that designs your project and sources the parts automatically — no electrical engineering experience needed. Describe it in plain language, get a verified parts kit, and build it staged from breadboard to soldered perfboard.
The Absolute Easiest Way to Ping Your Phone NotifyBridge is the ultimate backend built for makers, smart home hobbyists, and developers who just want their hardware to work. Instead of spending hours fighting with heavy mobile SDKs, platform certificates, or massive cloud dashboards, our lightweight REST API lets any ESP32, Arduino, or Raspberry Pi project drop a simple webhook to trigger instant mobile alerts.
Have a hardware idea? Describe it in a sentence. You get back a verdict (Buildable / Buildable with changes / Heavy lift / Not viable), a bill of materials costed at 100, 1,000 and 10,000 units, subsystem risk ratings, certification gates for your market, and a 3D concept model. Two minutes, no signup. Criteria come from 23 years of hardware building. Running on GPT-5.6 Terra.
Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
ProtoFlow is the new step zero for electronic design, built for individual engineers and teams. Through its powerful AI assistant, universal component search, custom component generation, and multiplayer collaboration tools, ProtoFlow optimizes the PCB design process, slicing hours off development. The service is free to use, offers a full-suite platform, and exports smoothly to software like KiCad and Altium, allowing users at any skill level to fully optimize their hardware designs.
Codex Micro is a compact keyboard built with Work Louder to control your Codex agents. It features physical keys for common skills, a dial to adjust reasoning levels, and live RGB status lights so you can track agent progress without switching windows.
NanoKVM-Go is a watch-sized, serverless 4K KVM with WiFi 6 and built-in Tailscale. It acts as an open MCP server to give AI agents hardware-level screen visibility and keyboard/mouse input control over any connected laptop or mobile device.
Steam Machine is a tiny, powerful PC for big-screen gaming. A roughly 6-inch cube with over six times the power of Steam Deck, it plays your entire Steam library—AAA titles included—at 4K 60 FPS. Sign in and your games are right there. It runs SteamOS for a plug-and-play experience, stays cool and whisper-quiet, and pairs instantly with the Steam Controller. It's still a full PC too: install your own apps or even another OS. Powerful PC gaming made easy, right under your TV.
Midjourney Medical is reimagining health scanning. Step into a shallow pool of warm, golden light and a ring of sensors uses gentle sound waves to map your body in detail—in about 60 seconds. No radiation, no stress. It pairs with the Midjourney Spa: a relaxing place with hot tubs, saunas, and cold plunges where the scan is just a side effect. Go often, build a rich library of health data over time, and catch things early. Affordable, casual body imaging for everyone.
SPECS bring computing into the world around you, so you can learn, work, and play while staying present in the moment.
Obotiq builds autonomous robots that handles routine non clinical work in care facilities, reducing caregiver burnout and giving care teams more time for the moments that matter.
Insta360 Luna Ultra is an 8K gimbal camera with a 1" Leica Summicron main lens, 1/1.3" telephoto lens, 3-axis stabilization, detachable 2" OLED touchscreen, AI tracking, 10-bit I-Log, built-in storage, and POV shooting accessories.
Meet Oura Ring 5. Now 40% smaller with a titanium design and up to 9 days of battery for sleep, activity, stress, heart health, and recovery.
blokdots is a visual tool for building interactive hardware. Connect sensors, motors, and more with a simple trigger-action interface — no coding required. 3.0 is a ground-up rebuild with our own C++ framework — replacing Firmata entirely. Export real C++ or JavaScript code, hand off to engineering, or go fully standalone: upload directly to Arduino, no more laptop needed! Connects to ProtoPie, Figma, and Socket.IO for integrated UI + hardware prototyping.
Why is my MacBook charging slowly? WhatCable shows USB-C cable speed, charging power, and e-marker data in plain English so you don't have to guess.
Insta360 Mic Pro is a pro wireless mic with a customizable E-Ink display, 3-mic array, AI noise canceling, directional pickup modes, 32-bit float internal recording, timecode sync, 400m range, and multi-cam creator workflows.
PaperColor features 4-inch full-color E Ink, ESP32-S3, Wi-Fi, sensor and audio. Ideal for IoT signage, voice terminals and environmental monitoring.
Naptick is a smart bedside AI sleep companion designed for founders, professionals, light sleepers, and anyone struggling with nighttime stress or doomscrolling. It combines circadian light therapy, 1000+ adaptive soundscapes, room condition intelligence, app-locking, and an on-device AI sleep coach to help users fall asleep faster and wake up refreshed. Unlike passive sleep trackers, Naptick is built phone-free by design and actively helps improve sleep before the night begins.
We’re introducing Googlebook, a new category of laptops designed for Gemini Intelligence and perfectly in sync with your Android phone.
A new category of laptops built from the ground up for Gemini intelligence. These devices feature the Magic Pointer for contextual suggestions and custom widgets to help you organize your tasks. Keep an eye on googlebook.com for more updates before the devices launch this fall.
Seer is built for inventors, offering an AI-powered framework to develop physical products. It can design 3D objects, generate orthographics, write firmware, and perform market and patent research. These tools work individually or through “Invent” mode—an agent with product design–level expertise that can take your idea from concept to completion using both creative and engineering intelligence. The output is ready-to-manufacture prototypes, and you can order 3d printing from within Seer.