Portfolio

A selection of our work


Retro-Aero Data Display Dashboard

A large wall mounted dashboard for displaying mission-critical data in offices for tech companies, so a team can see the state of their infrastructure at a glance. An attempt to balance form and function, displaying real-time data from cloud services in an integrated, beautiful device that will be a show-piece for any high tech office.
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Styled to look and feel like a plane cockpit, with vintage-looking VFDs, (Vacuum Fluorescent Displays) big chunky switches, analog needle gauges, pull handles and thumbscrews. The case is aluminium, laser cut and anodised black, then laser marked with annotations and graphics.

Each module on the one-metre-wide display unit is individually removable with four thumbscrews, and behind each one is a custom PCB secured with a 3D printed mount. The modules all communicate over a chained CAN bus - also used in vehicles and industrial equipment - and are controlled by an embedded Linux PC that also drives the four high resolution displays.

Several modules are interactive - buttons and switches that send input back to the controlling PC as messages on the CAN bus.
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  • PCB design
  • PCB assembly
  • CAN bus
  • USB
  • STM32 microcontroller
  • 3D printing
  • CAD for laser cutting
  • Mechanical design
  • MicroPython
  • Aluminium welding

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Wide Area Intrusion Detection System

A covert early warning system for a private security team operating in a remote environment.

Hidden sensors detect unusual movement and use a low power, long range dedicated radio link to notify a central office, which informs the rest of the team.

Long battery life ensures sensors don't need to be disturbed or serviced often, a long distance radio link offers the team the greatest possible warning time, and careful design of innocuous-looking sensors offers the team flexibility for installation.

Given the sensitive nature of this one, we can't say much more!

  • PCB design
  • PCB assembly
  • LoRa radio
  • Low power
  • Covert enclosure
  • Analog environmental sensors
  • Low noise power supplies
  • Mechanical design
  • STM32 microcontroller
  • MBed IoT OS
  • Lead-acid battery


Vehicle fleet telematics system

A set of custom tracking units for a fleet of vehicles with a range of 10 miles and a 1Hz update rate for the entire fleet. Operates in an extremely harsh environment with temperature, corrosion, dust, wind, and water hazards, sometimes all at once.

Magnetically attached sensor units mount safely to the exterior of a vehicle, plug into the vehicle's cigarette lighter power socket, and can run on their internal batteries for many hours when the vehicle is powered off or the unit is unplugged.

Includes transceiver units with large antennae mounted on a communications tower, using RS485 to reliably communicate with the equipment room at ground level.

Integrates with the client's existing custom position reporting systems for other assets.

  • PCB design
  • PCB assembly
  • GPS
  • Compass
  • LoRa radio
  • STM32 microcontroller
  • MicroPython
  • Li-Poly battery
  • Enclosure design
  • USB
  • Magnetic mounting

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