Case studies.
Products we took from an idea to the manufacturing line.
Genius Sports: iPhone power and cooling case
The second-generation PCBA for the Dragon camera case behind Genius Sports' Semi-Automated Offside Technology — validated in three months, now more than 5,000 units in stadiums, then thermoelectric cooling, stadium audio and a cost-reduced adapter.
Tin Can: the landline reinvented for kids
Firmware development through to production for a screen-free Wi-Fi phone for kids, then the EE team through multiple cost-down rounds with the factory.
Avegant's smallest light engine for AR glasses
A complex, high-speed rigid-flex PCB for an ultra-compact AR light engine, redesigned around a late fabrication constraint and still delivered in under three months, in time for CES.
Powering Humane's AI Pin
Two rigid boards and two custom flex boards in a curved case, and bare-metal firmware from zero to production in three months, for Humane’s AI Pin.
iFixit Soldering Iron and Power Station
iFixit’s first electromechanical product, from architecture to mass production: 3 PCBAs, custom USB PD alt-mode, 5 test fixtures, a 50+% cut in test time.
Enso Heartbeat Stone
A handheld stone that records a heartbeat and plays it back — with a custom bootloader for two separate chips and an I2C conflict fixed in firmware.
Emme Smart Birth Control
A smart pill case that senses when a pack is removed and talks to a phone app over BLE — the prototype Emme used to win pre-seed funding.
Roche Compute Module
A compute module exposing CAN, I2C, PWM and IO-Link to a backplane, delivered in five months, on time and on budget despite client personnel changes.
Open source tools we've built.
smpclient and smpmgr
Our open-source tools for updating firmware over serial, Bluetooth and UDP — a Python library and the command-line manager built on it, both used in production.
Our CMake build and test tools
The CMake libraries we use on embedded projects: build conveniences, a unit test framework for CMake itself, and header-only C macro libraries. All public.
Boreas: Zephyr's kernel APIs on ESP-IDF
Our open-source ESP-IDF components that put Zephyr's kernel API and device model on top of FreeRTOS, so application code reads the same on Espressif parts as it does everywhere else.