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Open hardware for the Nocta vault: an offline password manager with a 2.7 inch e-ink screen. KiCad schematic, board layout, gerbers and BOM. CERN-OHL-S v2.
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Open hardware for the Nocta vault: an offline password and credential manager with a 2.7 inch e-ink screen, optional Bluetooth LE, and no cloud service behind it.
This repository is the design, not a product. The device is a prototype, it is not for sale, and there is no ship date.
Built by Nocta Labs, Leuven, Belgium.
| Path | What it is |
|---|---|
Hardware/OpenVault.kicad_sch | Schematic, KiCad |
Hardware/Schematic.pdf | The same schematic, readable without KiCad |
Hardware/OpenVault.kicad_pcb | Board layout, KiCad |
Hardware/production/ | Fabrication packages: gerbers, positions, BOMs |
Hardware/3D/ | STEP models for individual component packages |
Hardware/Datasheets/ | Datasheets for the parts used |
Hardware/Footprints/, Symbols/ | Project libraries |
CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2, Strongly Reciprocal
(CERN-OHL-S-2.0). Strongly reciprocal means anything you make from this and
distribute has to stay open under the same terms. That is deliberate.
Open Hardware/OpenVault.kicad_pro in KiCad 8 or later, or start with
Hardware/Schematic.pdf if you just want to read it. The fabrication packages
under Hardware/production/ are what actually went to the board house.
AI assistance, primarily Anthropic's Claude, is used in the development of this hardware.
Its role is limited to review and analysis: reading datasheets and verifying pin assignments and component values against them, reviewing the schematic and the board layout, triaging ERC and DRC output, maintaining helper scripts, and drafting documentation.
Component selection, the board stackup, the USB differential pair impedance and
all security related decisions are made by the maintainers. No AI system commits
to this repository, and every change is reviewed by a maintainer before it
reaches main.
No part of this design has been validated by an AI system, and maintainer review does not amount to electrical or security qualification. The design should be read against the component datasheets and verified independently before fabrication or use. The warranty and liability disclaimers in the licence apply in full.
Contributions developed with AI assistance are accepted, provided the use is disclosed in the pull request and the contributor can account for the work submitted.
Open an issue. A mistake found in the schematic now is worth more to us than a compliment later :)
For anything sensitive, mail hello@noctalabs.sh first and we will credit you publicly once it is fixed.