Grafana

Create a dashboard (online if you wish) that visualizes your experimental data.

mMass

Open-source software for mass spectrometers.

Stellarium

Open-source planetarium software.

OpenSCAD

3D modeling software.

SageMath

Open-source cloud-based computation (similar to MATLAB and Mathematica).

GNU Octave

Free software numerical computation program, similar to MATLAB.

Dia

Open-source software for making diagrams.

Gephi

Open graph visualization platform.

QGIS

Open GIS software.

Mineways

a tool for turning Minecraft model files into 3D-printable .stl files

ALOHA

A piece of software disributed by the EPA that models the threat zone for various types of chemical spill and explosion hazards.

vegan

R package for statistical work in community ecology.

BOINC

Open-source cross-platform volunteer computing network connecting computers of volunteers/citizen scientists to scientific research projects. Used by CERN and universities around the world.

YData Profiling

A general-purpose open-source data profiler for high-level analysis of a dataset.

Desbordante

An open-source data profiler specifically focused on discovery and validation of complex patterns in data.

Zotero

Open-source citation management software.

TiddlyWiki

Easily create your own wikis to organize information.

Evergreen ILS

Software for managing a library of books (and the loaning process).

ISLE

Open-source laboratory equipment inventory management system developed by NASA.

GanttProject

Productivity tool for scheduling tasks and making Gantt charts.

Open Science Framework

Open-source collaborative project manager for scientific research.

Calibre

eBook management software.

LibraryThing

an online platform for organizing your library.

PECE

The Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography. This project provides an online platform for academic collaboration that helps keep track of complex attribution of credit. It is geared toward anthropologists but is expanding to become more broad.

RapidPro

An open-source platform for building scalable applications that users can interact with via SMS.

eu-citizen.science

links to 200 projects

Zooniverse

website for zoo & universe projects

Yourself to Science

An open-source catalog of opportunities for citizens to contribute data, biological samples, or their bodies to research.

GraphViz

tool for creating scientific graphs

Light and Matter

Benjamin Crowell's free-to-download, cheap-to-buy open source physics textbooks.

OpenStax

Repository of open-licensed and collaboratively-edited textbooks on many basic subjects. You can download them as ebooks or order print copies.

PhET Simulations

CU Boulder interactive physics and chemistry simulations.

United Diversity Co-op Library

A vast library of interesting textbooks and other resources in PDF form on such topics as permaculture, agriculture, economics, crafts and activism.

Microbe Wiki

A large student-edited multi-institutional wiki for microbiology.

OpenCulture Textbooks

The textbook section of a website dedicated to the open sharing of information.

Free Tech Books

Free ebooks (mostly computer science and engineering).

OpenWetWare

A site that maintains a list of bio lab protocols as well as an electronic lab notebook for team use.

The ODIN

A distributor of affordable DIY biology equipment.

Bento Box

A low-cost PCR workstation from Bento Lab.

OpenTrons

An open-source liquid-handling robot.

OpenPCR

An open-source PCR thermocycler.

SGD

Stanford University's Saccharomyces Genome Database.

BLAST

Search tool for local alignment.

IORodeo

Sells a cheap open-source potentiostat, a colorimeter, and some other equipment.

BioSurplus

A supplier of used bio lab equipment.

DremelFuge

A biology centrifuge that takes the form of a dremel attachment.

Paperfuge

An ultra-low cost, hand-powered centrifuge inspired by the mechanics of a whirligig toy.

Ministat

A DIY chemostat.

MinION

An affordable, portable DNA/RNA sequencer.

SpikerBox

A bioamplifier for DIY neuroscience.

Raspberry Shake

A seismograph compatible with the Raspberry Pi.

Smoky Mountain Scientific

Modular, Low cost, open-source instrumentation for environmental monitoring.

AWEsome

An affordable airborne wind turbine prototype.

IMGtoKMZ

A simple tool to convert a batch of geotagged images into a KMZ file, with one placemark per photograph.

Printables

Database of 3D-printable models with contests and an active community

Thingiverse

A search engine for 3D-printable models.

Ember

A comprehensively open-source DLP SLA 3D Printer project, powered by Autodesk.

3D Printable Science Equipment

A list of different 3d-printable science objects with models.

Precious Plastic

Make your own 3D printer filament.

C.H.I.P

A $9 Linux computer.

Raspberry Pi Zero

The cheapest, smallest Raspberry Pi ($5).

Particle Electron

Raspberry Pi-like microcontroller for connecting the devices you make to the cellular network.

SparkFun

A company selling all sorts of electronics for DIY projects, including sensors.

Red Pitaya

Open-source tool with multiple signal processing functions, such as an oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, signal generator, and more.

Podo

A stickable, hi-resolution Bluetooth camera.

Global Village Construction Set

Open-source farm equipment and other civilization-building tools.

Farming Concrete Data Collection Toolkit

"Methods for measuring the outcomes and impacts of community gardens and urban farms."

Build My Lab Contest

A competition to create instructables for DIY lab equipment.

Generic Lab Equipment

Wiki with instructions on building DIY lab equipment.

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

An open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to discussion about methods in citizen science.

Scholar Subreddit

A great place to request help getting access to scientific papers that are beyond paywalls.

Library Genesis

An online tool for gaining access to scientific articles that are normally beyond paywalls.

SciHub

Another site for gaining access to science papers that are normally behind paywalls.

Public Library of Science (PLOS)

Nonprofit organization that publishes open-access journals and also advocates for openness and tranparency in science.

arXiv

A Cornell-supported site for sharing and discussing early drafts of scientific papers (mostly physics and math).

Directory of Open Access Journals

Over 9000 journals listed.

Investigative Dashboard

A tool for researchers, especially journalists, to share documents and findings.

Taskade

Collaborative outliner, notes, and task manager.

Citizen Science: Probing the Virtues and Contexts of Participatory Research

Buckets of Resistance: Standards and the Effectiveness of Citizen Science

The Potentials and Limitations of Civil Society Research: Getting Undone Science Done

Citizen Engineering: Disrupting Expertise in Classroom and Community

A paper introducing the concept of "citizen engineering" as a companion to citizen science

Institutions for Civic Technoscience: How Critical Making is Transforming Environmental Research

Citizen Science as an Ecological Research Tool: Challenges and Benefits

Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and…

The Science Wars and the Future of the American Academic Profession

Caltech chemistry professor Jay A. Labinger's paper about the need for scientists to engage with critical science studies scholars.

Science for the People

A late 1960s/early 1970s radical science movement whose literature has been organized on a website by UMass Amherst.

From the March for Science to an Abolitionist Science

An article that offers several historical and current critiques of science that propose alternative ways of doing scientific work.

Whole Earth Catalog

A site that contains the remnants of a famous late 1960s and early 1970s maker/ecology magazine.

Lead Concentrations in Inner-City Soils As a Factor in the Child Lead Problem

A 1983 pharmacology paper detailing a low-cost, low-tech method of doing soil heavy metal testing.

How to Run a Feminist Science Lab Meeting

A guide by the Civic Laboratory in St. John's, Newfoundland

Spectrophotometric Determination of Lead

Another simple DIY lead testing procedure.

First-Ever Video May Show Pig-Like Animals Mourning Their Dead

An example of an important scientific discovery being made by someone who was not an institutional academic (an 8-year-old boy). The boy received lead author credit in a scientific paper.

Genspace

One of the oldest and most successful DIY Bio labs, located in Brooklyn, NYC.

BioCurious

The first biohacking space in the world, located in Sunnyvale, CA

HiveBio

Seattle community bio lab.

SynthTechBio Network

Latin American biohackers' network.

Four Thieves Vinegar Collective

A group working on DIY pharma-hacking projects, such as a $30 alternative to $600 epi-pens.

The Community Science Initiative

A nonprofit water testing and environmental data organization in Ithaca, NY.

Sanctuary for Weedy Species

A Brooklyn-based urban ecology project.

Coweeta Listening Project

Southern Appalachian project combining ecological research with civic action.

The Radix Center

Community-based urban sustainability / agriculture education center in Albany, NY.

The Bucket Brigade

A Norco, LA - based citizen science group fighting for environmental justice.

Safecast

An online citizen science project collecting and visualizing radioactivity data across the globe.

Rainforest Connection

Project sing old smartphones as sensors to combat illegal logging.

The Citizen Science Lab

A community science lab based in Pittsburgh, PA.

BioBus

A mobile science education lab.

Hillsboro Library of Things

A library for physical objects based in Hillsboro, OR. Includes some science and tech supplies.

Fab Foundation

an organization that facilitaties a network of digital fabrication "Fab Labs"

Farm Hack

A project for producing open farm tools.

Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts

A bioart studio-lab at SUNY Buffalo.

MIT Media Lab

An interdisciplinary art, science and technology research center that is part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Interspecifics

A Mexico City-based collective working on projects at the intersection of art and science, especially related to biologically-generated sound.

Center for Science and the Imagination

A collaboration between artists and scientists at Arizona State University.

STEM to STEAM

An initiative out of Rhode Island School of Design to bring more art and design into STEM education.

The Waag Society

An institute for collaborative art, science and technology based in the Netherlands.

Experiment.com

A science crowdfunding platform.

The Awesome Foundation

A nonprofit that funds awesome projects with microgrants $1000 at a time.

Endeavorist

A "curiosity network" for science and technology that combines a social network with crowdfunding.

Herb Society of America

Offers some grants that are compatible with small, non-institutional research projects.

Seeding Labs

Equipment and funding for labs in developing countries.

EPA Environmental Education Grants

Grants available for small community organizations.

DIYbio.org

An online community for DIY biologists.

CollabFinder

A place to find collaborators for your project.

OpenLab-Blueprint

Informational resources for upstart DIY science labs, put together by members of Genspace.

SciStarter

A search engine for finding citizen science projects to participate in.

Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Toolkit

Maintained by the US government.

Public Lab

A DIY environmental science network.

Welcome to How To Grow (almost) Anything in GaudiLabs - Switzerland

A guide to setting up a basic microbiology lab.

Innovative Citizen

An annual citizen science festival in the Ruhr area, Germany, with an emphasis on organic fabrication, bio-hacking, mobile agriculture, and sustainability in urban ecosystems.

iGEM

Student synthetic biology competition with connections to many DIY bio labs.

Biofabricate

A design-focused annual conference that focuses on biotechnology-affiliated design, materials, and techniques.

Biodesign Challenge

Student design competition that concentrates on envisioning the future application of biotechnology.

MOST

The Pearce Research Group at Michigan Tech in Open Sustainability Technology.

OSGeo

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, which offers a lot of open tools for working with GIS data.

Open source engineering software

A large list maintained on Appropedia.

The Open Source Hardware Association

A resource for all things open hardware, including designs and legal considerations.

Biocanvas

A collection of biological images as art.

The Powercube

Some literature and workshops by community organizers for understanding power and mobilizing.

Detroit Future City: A Field Guide to Working with Lots

Guides for urban agriculture from Detroit.