01 / MECHANICAL
Industrial & mechanical design
Form, CMF, wall thicknesses, snap fits, tolerances, draft angles, the mounting story. Designed so it can be moulded later, not just printed now.
How we build
Sketch to purchase order, without a handoff
Hardware people who cannot train a model, and model people who have never held a caliper, produce the same result: a beautiful half. We staffed for the whole.
The disciplines
Six crafts, one room
Nothing here is subcontracted to a stranger with a different definition of done.
02 / PROTOTYPING
3D printing, in the building
A Bambu Lab X2D for casings, brackets and functional parts. An Elegoo Saturn 16K for optical light guides and anything where the surface is the feature.
03 / ELECTRONICS
Boards, radios, antennas
Module selection and silicon choice driven by what the model needs to run, plus the radio stack — Wi-Fi, Thread, Matter, Zigbee, Bluetooth — and where the antenna can actually live.
04 / FIRMWARE
Firmware that survives the field
Boot, provisioning, the inference loop, power behaviour, recovery, and an update path that cannot brick a device in a customer's hallway.
05 / MODELS
Edge & local AI
Quantised models sized to the silicon, a local model on the premise box for the harder reasoning, and an evaluation harness that says whether the new one is genuinely better.
06 / SOFTWARE
Apps, APIs, platform
Mobile, TV and web clients, the API, multi-tenant provisioning, connectors to the systems your customers already own, and the dashboards that keep a fleet honest.
The printers earn their keep
Two machines, two different jobs
Bambu Lab X2D — casings, brackets, jigs and functional parts, in engineering materials when the part has to survive something. Dual nozzle means support removal stops being an afternoon with a scalpel.
Elegoo Saturn 16K — light guides and optical parts, where resolution is the whole point. A glowing line that looks machined rather than printed is not a rendering trick; it is geometry you can only reach at this resolution.
Between them: same-day iteration. A detail argued at ten in the morning is a part in your hand by two, and a corrected part by six.
What "documented" means
The pile of files that makes it real
A prototype nobody can manufacture is a sculpture. Week eight ends with the bill of materials, the mechanical package, the assembly sequence, the test plan and the known-issues list — the set a contract manufacturer needs to quote you a price instead of a meeting.
We would rather write down the three things that are still wrong than hand over a clean folder that lies.
Deliverables
What actually lands in your hands
- Architecture
- Edge / premise / cloud split, written down
- Mechanical
- CAD, printed parts, assembly sequence
- Electronics
- Module & silicon selection, radio plan
- Firmware
- Running on the target, with an update path
- Model
- Trained, quantised, measured on device
- Apps
- Mobile, TV or web, as the product needs
- Platform
- API, tenancy, provisioning, telemetry
- Manufacturing
- BOM and the documentation set for quoting
One team, one thread
Bring the whole problem. Including the plastic.
Most studios hand you a design and wish you luck with the rest. We would rather own the seam between the enclosure, the board and the model, because that seam is where products fail.