Hardware, firmware, test and build

Take the whole thing end to end, or just the bit you're stuck on.

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Hardware design

Mixed-signal boards with a microcontroller in the middle, which is most products, if you think about it.

Schematic and PCB

Two and four layer boards designed from the start to be cheap and easy to build.

Cost-down

Got a board already that costs too much? We'll go through it and see where the money is going.

Radio and comms

Wi-Fi, BLE, Zigbee, 868 MHz sub-GHz, CAN and CAN FD, USB. We have done commercial work with most of these.

Power

USB-C, battery and mains-derived supplies, low-power sleep design.

Firmware and software

The part that usually takes longest, and the part that's easiest to get badly wrong.

Embedded firmware

C and C++ on STM32 (G0, F1, L0, G4, H5, H7, U3), RP2040 and RP2350 including PIO, ESP32, AT32 and PY32. Bare-metal or FreeRTOS.

USB and bootloaders

USB device classes, WinUSB, custom bootloaders and field firmware update, so you can fix things after they've shipped.

Connected devices

Device check-in, heartbeat, telemetry, a dashboard and a remote command queue. We run a fleet of our own devices on it.

Desktop tools

Configuration and test utilities for Windows and Linux that talk to your hardware over USB or serial.

Test and production

Getting from five boards that work to a hundred that all work.

Production test

Self-test firmware, test jigs and ATE. On one job the PCBA self-test caught a wiring fault on the board before a single unit went out.

Programming

Several boards programmed at once, with a record of exactly which board got which firmware.

Small-batch builds

Up to about 100 units built, programmed, tested and packed. Enclosures 3D printed if you need them.

Handover

Full manufacturing pack for when you outgrow us, which is a good problem to have.

How we charge

Fixed price per stage, quoted up front. Rough guide only, because every board's different.

Napkin

Fixed quote
  • One-page brief
  • Main parts chosen
  • Costed BOM against live stock
  • Honest view on whether it's worth doing

Quick turnaround.

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Build

Per unit
  • Test jig and procedure
  • Up to 100 assembled units
  • Programmed and tested
  • Optional enclosure
  • Manufacturing handover pack

Quoted per run once the design is fixed.

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