Product Design, Development & Prototyping
Bring your idea to life
You have an idea and it doesn't exist yet. We take it from a description, a sketch, or a rough first attempt through to something you can hold, test, and put in front of other people.
The work runs concept → design → prototype → revision, and it loops: the first physical version almost always changes the design, which is the point of building one. Where the finished thing stays 3D printed, we can carry it into low-volume production as well.
For designs headed to laser cutting or other tooled manufacturing, our work ends at a validated design or prototype. Sourcing production from there is on you — we'll hand over what a manufacturer needs to quote it.
You have an idea and haven't built it yet — whether you don't know CAD yourself, or you do but don't have the time. Right audience if you're still validating whether the idea works at all, not just fabricating something already fully specified.
If the design is already finished and you just need parts made, 3D Printing is the faster, cheaper route.
What you get
- A working physical prototype
- Editable design files for the final revision
- Notes on what changed between revisions and why
What we need from you
- A description of the idea — plain language is fine, technical language is not required
- Where it stands today: an idea, a sketch, a model, or a version that didn't work
- Anything you already have — sketches, files, photos, patents
- Your timeline, and whether there's budget behind it yet
How it works
You tell us what you're building
The intake form asks what the thing is, what problem it solves, and what you have to work with — sketches, an existing part, nothing at all. No files required to start.
We come back with a scoped first step
You get a written summary of the problem as we understand it, and a price for the first round of work. Some projects may require a quick call or in-person meet for us to fully understand what we're working on.
We design it and build a prototype
We turn the idea into geometry and check it against how it has to be made — wall thicknesses, fits, tolerances, whether it can come off a printer at all. Then we build a physical version. You can have it shipped to you, or get print-ready files if you'd rather print it yourself.
You test it, we talk through what it taught us
Holding it is where an idea stops being a discussion — what's wrong with it becomes obvious the moment it's in your hand. We walk through what worked, what it revealed, and what comes next together, before deciding on another round.
If something else turns up, we explore it separately
Sometimes a prototype reveals a different problem worth solving, not just a rougher version of the same one. When that happens, we scope it as its own small piece of work, priced on its own, so exploring it doesn't blur the cost or timeline of what you started with.
Hand over — or keep making
You get the final design files and a prototype that works. If the part stays 3D printed, we can run low volumes for you from the same files instead of handing off.
Each milestone is one round of design and prototyping, ending in something you can hold or test — and a checkpoint where we review it together before the next one starts. This is also how the work gets billed: one milestone, one invoice.
Ready when you are.
Step one is a form. Nothing is committed by filling it in — we come back with scope and a price before any work starts.
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