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Services
Five modules. Engaged separately, or as one lab that takes a problem from field research to shipped hardware.
Hardware Miniaturization
You have a system that works on a bench. We make it fit where it actually has to live.
Board re-architecture, stack-up and packaging design, power-system redesign, mechanical integration. Our internal benchmark: a full touchscreen payment terminal driven from 13-card thickness toward a single standard card.
- Re-architected PCBs & stack-ups
- Power budget engineering
- Enclosure & mechanical design
- DFM for small-batch and scale
Sensor R&D
Measuring things that resist being measured, in environments that abuse electronics.
Flow, inertial, capacitive, and optical sensing; multi-sensor fusion; calibration regimes that hold up outside the lab. We took pour detection from 84% to 99.4% across six revisions under real bar-rail conditions.
- Sensor selection & characterization
- Fusion & event-detection algorithms
- Calibration & validation protocols
- Field-test instrumentation
Embedded Systems & Custom OS
Bare-metal firmware for devices that must run for years on power budgets near zero.
Ultra-low-power firmware, custom display drivers, secure elements, cryptography including post-quantum schemes: up to a complete operating system for a novel display in a payment card, with its own 7×5 typeface.
- Bare-metal & RTOS firmware
- Display stacks & UI for constrained pixels
- Secure element integration
- OTA & device lifecycle tooling
Rapid Prototyping
Working hardware in weeks, then a measured march of revisions.
We prototype like we mean it: every revision exists to move a named metric. 3D-printed and machined enclosures, small-batch assembly, instrumented field deployments that generate the data for the next rev.
- Functional prototypes (V1 in weeks)
- Revision plans tied to metrics
- Small-batch builds
- Instrumented field pilots
Design Research & Systems
Ethnography before electronics. The data layer after.
Field observation, journey mapping, and competitive teardowns define the device; dashboards, data pipelines, and real-time software complete it. We rebuilt a trading desk inside a spreadsheet with sub-100ms live data.
- Field studies & usability testing
- Journey maps & teardowns
- Real-time data systems & dashboards
- On-premise AI integration