Embedded Product Development,
Start to Finish
You have a product idea. Building it means firmware, a PCB, an enclosure, and often a cloud app — usually from four different vendors who've never spoken to each other.
One team. Firmware to enclosure. No vendor coordination.
PCB, Firmware, and Enclosure — Built as One Product
Embedded product development means turning an idea into a physical device that works reliably, ships in volume, and doesn't fall apart the first time someone drops it. That's more than writing firmware or laying out a board — it's the board, the code running on it, and the housing it lives in, all designed to work together from the start.
Most agencies specialize in one piece of that and hand you off for the rest. We do the opposite. Our PCB designer, firmware engineers, and enclosure designer work from the same project files, in the same building, so a change to the board on Tuesday doesn't break the enclosure fit on Thursday.
Below is how that actually plays out: the problem it solves for founders and hardware teams, the phases a build goes through, what you walk away owning, and proof from projects we've carried end-to-end.
Coordinating Vendors Isn't Your Job
Most founders end up managing a PCB house, a firmware freelancer, a 3D printing shop, and a cloud developer — different timezones, different standards, and nobody owns the integration.
A PCB House That Never Saw the Enclosure
The board comes back fine, but nobody checked if it actually fits the case.
A Firmware Freelancer in a Different Timezone
Bugs sit for a day waiting on a reply. Nobody owns the whole system.
A 3D Printing Shop Working From Old Files
The enclosure gets revised. The board doesn't. They drift apart.
A Cloud Developer Bolted On at the End
The app was never part of the plan — just wired up after the fact.
We are the team that owns the whole build — board, firmware, and enclosure — so the integration is our problem, not yours.
The End-to-End Journey
Six phases, one team carrying the product through all of them.
Feasibility & Architecture
We work through what you're trying to build, pick the components, and check the concept is actually buildable at the cost you need. That means sizing the battery or power budget, checking whether a wireless protocol will actually reach where the device needs to work, and pricing the BOM against your target unit cost before any design work starts. This is where a bad idea gets caught early, not after money is spent on tooling.
Schematic & PCB Design
Circuit design, component sourcing, and PCB layout done in-house — power stage, sensor interfaces, connectors, and the wireless front-end all designed against the architecture from phase one. Parts are checked for availability and lead time, not just picked off a datasheet. Full detail on how this works is on our PCB design services page.
Firmware Development
Bare-metal, RTOS, or Linux-based firmware, with BLE, WiFi, or cellular connectivity and OTA updates where the product needs it. Power management gets the same attention as features — a device that reads great in the lab but drains a coin cell in three weeks isn\'t done. If the product needs a BLE companion app, the same team builds that too. See our embedded software development page for the depth of what we cover.
Enclosure Design & Prototyping
3D-printed enclosures, material selection, and iteration for fit and manufacturability — designed around your actual board, not a generic box. Cutouts, mounting points, and screen or button positions come straight from the PCB layout, so the first printed prototype fits instead of guessing. More on our enclosure design page.
Integration & Testing
Hardware, firmware, and enclosure come together as one product. Functional testing on the bench first — every sensor, every connection, every wireless link checked against the spec — then field testing in the conditions the device will actually see, not just a lab bench.
Production Support
BOM optimization to bring unit cost down, design-for-manufacturing review so the board and enclosure actually produce cleanly at volume, and a full handover of every file once the build is done — schematic, firmware, and enclosure files, nothing held back.
What You Get
We hand over everything. You own it. No lock-in, no gatekeeping.
Full Source Code
Firmware and any companion app code, handed over in full.
Schematic & PCB Files
Gerbers, drill files, and the full schematic — ready for any manufacturer.
BOM With Supplier Links
A bill of materials with real supplier links, not a vague parts list.
3D Enclosure Files
STEP and STL files for the enclosure, ready to print or tool.
NDA Signed Up Front
Your idea is protected before any work starts, not after you ask.
IP Transfer at Project End
A clear IP transfer agreement once the project closes — it's yours.
Most agencies keep clients dependent on them. We don't. Once paid, the code, the boards, and the files are yours — full stop.
Built End-to-End
Four different products, each carried from board to enclosure to deployed units.
Smart Golf Ball — nRF52840, BLE Mesh, Coin-Cell Powered
A custom board built around the nRF52840, running BLE mesh firmware inside a coin-cell-powered enclosure sized to survive being hit — engineered for 9–12 month battery life.
Interactive Retail Display — Concept to Deployed Units
Raspberry Pi-based hardware, in-house molded PLA enclosures, and firmware — carried from concept through a 50-unit batch production run to deployed units.
Equine Performance Wearable
A 3D-printed enclosure paired with a webbing strap, iterated across several rounds for secure mounting on a horse in motion.
BudKoin Smart Vending Machine
A Raspberry Pi 4-based vending machine, built end-to-end and deployed at Jersey Airport.
Built For Product Teams
This is for companies building a marketable hardware product — not a one-off hobby build.
Founders With a Product Idea
You know what the product should do, maybe you've sketched it, maybe you've got a rough spec. You need a team to actually build it, end-to-end, without you having to find and manage a PCB house, a firmware developer, and an enclosure shop yourself.
Companies With a Working Prototype
You've proven the concept on a breadboard or a first-pass board. Now it needs production-grade engineering — a board that manufactures cleanly at volume, firmware that's stable outside the lab, and an enclosure that holds up to real handling, not just a bench test.
Hardware Startups Past Tinkering
You've outgrown breadboards, dev boards, and one-off 3D prints. You need manufacturing-ready output — Gerbers a fab house can run, firmware that's been through OTA update testing, an enclosure that prints the same way every time — not another proof of concept.
Not for hobbyists, and not for someone who just needs a quick Arduino sketch. If that's what you need, this isn't the right fit.
Our Infrastructure
Not aspirational — this is the setup a project of ours actually runs through.
In-House PCB Designer
Many years designing boards for manufacturing, not just for the bench — schematic capture through layout, done by someone who has seen what goes wrong at fab.
In-House 3D Designer
Enclosures modeled around your actual component layout — mounting points, cutouts, and tolerances set from the real board, not a generic shell adapted after the fact.
Dedicated Enclosure Printing Floor
Two 3D printers — Bambu Lab and Anycubic — running PLA and ABS, on our own floor. Revisions happen on our own timeline, not an outside shop's.
Firmware Engineers Across the Stack
Bare-metal, RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr), and Linux-based firmware, covered in-house — whichever the product actually calls for, not whichever we happen to know.
Blower & Oven for PCB Rework
Rework and repair equipment on-site, so a bad solder joint or a component swap doesn't mean shipping a board out and waiting on a third party.
Technologies We Work With
We pick the microcontroller, protocol, and tooling based on the product's power budget, range, and manufacturability — not whatever's most familiar.
Microcontroller Platforms
Arduino
ESP32
STM32
Nordic nRF
NXP
Raspberry PiConnectivity & Protocols
BLE
LoRaWAN
MQTT
Z-Wave
Matter
AWS IoTPCB & 3D Enclosure Design Tools
KiCad / Altium (PCB Design)
SolidWorks (3D Enclosure Design)Firmware runs on bare-metal, FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or embedded Linux depending on the product — see the full breakdown on our embedded software development page.
What Clients Say
Real reviews from real projects, including two of the case studies above.
Smart Golf Ball — Custom PCB & Firmware
"Excellent prototype development with expert team, timely delivery, and innovative solutions."
Interactive Retail Display — 50-Unit Enclosure Batch
"The packaging was super professional and the look and fabrication quality is great. All 50 units perfectly working as expected."
Questions Before You Start
Got questions before starting your project? Here are the ones we hear most.
Yes. Most of our clients come in partway through — a board that's already spun, a prototype that needs to go to production, or firmware that needs a rewrite. We review what exists first and pick up from there; you don't have to restart the whole process to work with us.
We sign before any technical discussion starts, not after. You send us the idea under NDA, we review it, and only then do we talk specifics. It costs you nothing and protects the idea from day one. This is standard practice for defence-sector and government-adjacent work too — see our defence electronics design page for how that plays out end-to-end.
That's fine — this page describes the full end-to-end offering, but our PCB, firmware, and enclosure teams also take on standalone engagements. Tell us what stage you're at and we'll scope accordingly.
We handle design, prototyping, and small-batch production readiness — BOM optimization, DFM review, and the file handover a contract manufacturer needs. We are not an SMD assembly house ourselves; for full-scale manufacturing we prepare the package and work alongside your chosen manufacturer.
It depends on complexity, but a typical path from feasibility review to a working, enclosure-ready prototype runs a few months, not weeks. We give a real timeline once we understand the scope — not a generic estimate before we've seen the requirements.
Nothing stops you. Every file — schematic, PCB, firmware source, enclosure STEP/STL — is handed over as part of the deliverables. There's no proprietary format or held-back file that locks you to us.
Let's Build Your Product
Tell us where things stand — an idea, a prototype, or something in between — and we'll give you a straight answer on what it takes to build it.
NDA signed up front, before anything else.
