H ardware is essentially a vehicle for Software. With many projects requiring very specific hardware requirements, such as printing without start-up time, artificial intelligence, and more controversial projects like Bitcoin Mining, the route to market could be significantly improved with a more agile and iterative approach. - open-source hardware Project Olympus One of the goals behind P roject Olympus is to close the gap of the average 1.5 years of development cycle for hardware and get closer to the typical increments being achieved for software development. the incompleteness theorem Microsoft's rationale for sharing an incomplete design is that "open source hardware development is currently not as agile and iterative as open-source software. ... By sharing designs that are actively in development, Project Olympus will allow the community to contribute to the ecosystem by downloading, modifying, and for