TrackOn
The 10mm open-source silicon tracking tag.
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Details
- External ID
- 1269412
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- TrackOn
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Open Source, Hardware, Internet of Things, GitHub
Description
TrackOn is an ultra-low-profile (10x10mm, ≤0.55mm thick) open-source tracking tag. Instead of off-the-shelf ICs, we designed a custom RISC-V bare-die ASIC that charges infinitely via 13.56 MHz resonant magnetic flux. It natively integrates with Apple & Google Find My mesh networks with rotating P-224 elliptic curve cryptography.
Enrichment
- Niche
- open-source hardware and maker electronics
- Vertical
- Logistics
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source micro tracking tag for makers and hardware developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No TrackOn requires custom bare-die ASIC silicon design, RF antenna engineering for magnetic flux harvesting, and cryptographic hardware integration.
What it would actually take: This project demands deep semiconductor and electrical engineering, including custom IC layout (RISC-V core), tape-out through a silicon foundry, and high-frequency RF harvesting antenna design. Additionally, it requires low-level firmware implementing the Apple Find My / Google Find My Device cryptography (rotating P-224/P-256 keys) within extreme power and memory constraints.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #7 of 16 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
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