Microsoft continues to make its push into the hardware world with the announcement of Project Olympus, an open-source hardware design was created for the Open Compute Project (OCP) that can be modified and extended by the public.

It’s not the first time Microsoft has offered its hardware designs for things like its Azure servers or software-defined networking, but it is the first time the company has contributed an open-source hardware design to the OCP at an early stage of development. Usually the company gives a finished product.

The announcement was made via a blog post by Kushagra Vaid, general manager of Azure infrastructure at Microsoft, just before he was to speak at the Zettastructure conference in London. Vaid said that open-source hardware design is too difficult for developers to work with in its current state.

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