From a sketch to the first units, in ten steps
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Fig. S1 · Illustration · Not a client product 01 / Sketch
It starts with a sketch.
Or with a paper, or a result that works on the bench. First we agree what it has to do, and what must be proven.
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Automated bike lock station
“Client had a lot of ideas and we helped refine concepts through customer discovery.”
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Fig. S2 · Illustration · Not a client product 02 / Drawings
Then we draw it properly.
The idea gets dimensions, tolerances and a 3D model, so the hard parts show up while they're still cheap to change.
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Novel laboratory instrument for breath analysis
Precision mechanics, geometry optimization, integration with a mass spectrometer.
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Fig. S3 · Illustration · Not a client product 03 / Mechanical
Every part has a job.
Enclosure, frame, window, button and fasteners are shaped to fit together, to assemble and to be made.
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Smart insoles
Design of the insole and pod; early production of mechanical parts (50 units).
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Fig. S4 · Illustration · Not a client product 04 / Electronics
The board fits the box.
Schematic and layout are designed around the mechanics, whether it's a femtoamp front end or a kilovolt supply.
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Precision high-voltage and mixed-signal electronics
Up to a few kilovolts with 0.1 V control accuracy. Optically isolated.
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Fig. S5 · Illustration · Not a client product 05 / Code
Firmware brings it alive.
Code reads the sensor, drives the display and decides what happens next. The cloud link and the operator screen come from the same team.
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Salad and bowl making robot
Firmware in Python and C, ROS 2, cloud connection and APIs, web operator interface.
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Fig. S6 · Illustration · Not a client product 06 / Combination
Designed together, not handed off.
Mechanics, electronics and software are settled against each other in one team. That's the combination in our name.
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Microfluidic breath analyzer
Prototypes included the enclosure, all electronics, actuators, microfluidic sensor design and pneumatics.
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Fig. S7 · Illustration · Not a client product 07 / Make
The first one gets made.
When a prototype needs machined, cut, printed or measured parts, we make them with our partner Spark Laser in Richmond, BC.
PartnerNeed parts made, or a test rig? Start here →
Spark Laser, Richmond, BC
DMG Mori DMU 75, full 5-axis · 840 × 500 mm · 0.01 mm
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Fig. S8 · Illustration · Not a client product 08 / Iterate
Each version teaches something.
Version one proves the principle. Each one after it fixes what the last one got wrong.
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Novel molecule detection device
Hundreds of prototypes and experiments, over 1.5 years.
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Fig. S9 · Illustration · Not a client product 09 / Product
Then it works.
Finished materials, a live screen, and a device that does the job it was sketched to do.
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Fig. S10 · Illustration · Not a client product 10 / Pilot build
First units. Then hand-off.
We build pilot and low-volume runs for the field, then hand volume production to manufacturing partners.
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