About the OSAP Project

OSAP is authored by myself, Jake Read. I’m a PhD Student at the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, where I am advised by Prof. Neil Gershenfeld. OSAP also owes intellectual debt to Nadya Peek’s Object Oriented Hardware thesis and the pyGestalt project with Ilan Moyer.

My work on OSAP is driven (in part) by a desire for modular machine controllers. I put those to use on the Clank! project. More broadly, I want to make building hardware projects easier, i.e. plug-and-play, rather than plug-and-compile. I do that in the modular-things project, which I work on with Leo McElroy and Quentin Bolsee.

Contact / Contributing / Status

The project documentation is centered on this website, but get in touch via github if you’d like to contribute or discuss. I’d be stoked to hear about ideas, criticisms, naughty pieces of code you found, egregious mistakes I’ve made, networking strategies you’ve become enamoured with, or interesting systems you’re trying to make-more-modular.

Project Status

As of this writing 2024-02-12 OSAP is reaching some level of internal stability and is at 0.5.0 as an arduino library arduino. I’m working on pip and npm builds…

License

This work may be reproduced, modified, distributed, performed, and displayed for any purpose, but must acknowledge the OSAP project. Copyright is retained and must be preserved. The work is provided as is; no warranty is provided, and users accept all liability.