Ahn, Michael

Abstract Studies on open source hardware (OSHW) have estimated a $1 billion dollar market size with hundreds of startups and thousands of active projects and those numbers are growing. Traditional proprietary hardware is generally expensive and closed to improvements while OSHW is low cost and has design flexibility. The tradeoff is the necessity of comprehensive documentation with OSHW. This thesis shows that 95% of OSHW projects lack the documentation required to properly share designs for...