Kropp Olsha
Science Lab

Open source processes and equipment for home semiconductor fabrication. No toxic chemicals. No cleanroom. No million-dollar equipment.

Open Source All designs, processes, and results published under permissive licenses. No patents.
Accessible No specialty chemicals or restricted materials. Consumer-available supplies only.
Safe No HF, no organic solvents. Water-based development. Grocery-store etchants.

Making chips
like making PCBs

KOSL is a Toronto-based open source project developing processes and equipment for home semiconductor fabrication. Our goal is to make chip-making as accessible as making PCBs.

We replace every toxic, restricted chemical in conventional fab with grocery-store alternatives. Egg white photoresist. Riboflavin photosensitizer. KOH etchant. Water developer. $525 starting setup.

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$525
Starting setup
0
Toxic chemicals
100%
Open source
100μm
Feature target

Products

Photoresists, materials, and automated fabrication systems.

Available Now

KOSL RiboResist

Water-based photoresist. PVA + riboflavin. Non-toxic, shelf-stable.

Coming 2026

50MT500 Auto

Entry-level automated desktop fab. 50μm features, ~500 transistors.

Fully open source.

All process recipes, equipment designs, and experiment data published on GitHub under permissive licenses.