Platform Planning Framework for Open Source Hardware Development with Case Study of Project Ara

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper will demonstrate how to evaluate platform design for an open source hardware development project. First, the open source hardware development is investigated as a methodology that fulfills increasing demands for mass customization. In the open source hardware development, a project owner offers a platform and its sources to developers. Then independent developers separately develop and release various functional modules based on the open platform sources. The modules are compatible with the platform and both together work as a complete product. Customers will choose the platform and a set of modules which best meet their needs in the market. Second, an evaluation model for the open source hardware platform will be suggested. Developers’ participation is one of key factors to successful project management for the open source hardware development. Developers will consider estimated development costs and market size to make decision on participation. With all these concerns, we established a platform evaluation model for open source hardware projects in terms of how much it boosts developers’ participation. To build the model the modular phone development project Ara which is launched by Google is researched.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Chapter 1. Introduction 1
• 1.1. Maker movement 1
• 1.2. Open Source Hardware 3
• Chapter 2. Related Studies 7
• 2.1. Open Source Software 7
• 2.2. Product architecture 8
• 2.3. Open Source Hardware 10
• 2.4. Limitations 10
• Chapter 3. Characteristics of Open Source Hardware 12
• 3.1. Product development process 12
• 3.2. Classification of Open Source Hardware development projects 15
• 3.3. Product architecture 20
• Chapter 4. The evaluation model of an Open Source Hardware platform 22
• 4.1. Framework 22
• 4.2. The participation index 23
• 4.3. Platform evaluation 31
• Chapter 5. Case Study 33
• 5.1. Project Ara (Google ATAP) 33
• 5.2. Platform evaluation 35
• 5.3. Result and analysis 39
• Chapter 6. Conclusion 43
• Bibliography 46
• Appendix Open source projects 54
• 초록 57