Olimex

Olimex Ltd is a Bulgarian electronics company from Plovdiv. It describes itself as a developer and manufacturer of open-source hardware and software for the embedded market and says it was established in 1991. Olimex designs development boards and modules and sells them directly through its own online shop.

Features

• OLinuXino single-board computers and system-on-module boards for Linux
• Industrial-grade modules such as the iMX8MPlus SOM with a quad-core processor and a neural processing unit
• Boards for the Arduino ecosystem as well as programmers and the UEXT connector for expansion modules
• Open-source hardware: schematics and board files are published

Good to know

Olimex is a specialist supplier and its products are aimed at engineers, makers and small production runs, not at beginners who want a ready-made home computer. Documentation and board files are published openly, which helps with repair and customization. The company also organizes the Open Fest event in Sofia.