Our Work
Real systems, and the problems behind them.
Some clients stay unnamed for confidentiality, but the engineering is real. Here is what we were asked to solve and what we built.
28 projects across every industry we serve
Scientific instruments
Making a New Imaging Instrument Work as One Machine
Control software for a new imaging instrument that slices a frozen sample block and images every slice at multiple wavelengths, guiding users from setup to runs of more than a thousand slices.
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Healthcare and tele-rehabilitation
Bringing Physical Therapy Home for Veterans
A web platform for therapists and a tablet app for patients, so veterans could do prescribed rehab exercises at home and be reviewed remotely.
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From Scattered Test Files to a Structured Database
Thousands of test files spread across many locations became a structured database for every product, built and filled automatically.
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In progressPutting Test Statistics in Every Engineer's Hands
A company-wide web application built on the test database, giving engineers precise queries and interactive statistics. Now in early release with a first group of users.
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Optical components
Test Stations That Change Without Changing Code
Plant-wide automated test for fiber optic modulators, from wafer to finished package. Administrators change what each station does by editing a script, not the code.
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A Biospecimen System Built Around How the Lab Really Works
Receiving, barcoding, storage, and shipping in one system, with every specimen traceable to its client.
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Temperature Monitoring That Doesn't Stop
Precise, around-the-clock temperature monitoring for a materials storage facility, with custom alarms, enterprise data feeds, and automatic failover to a standby machine.
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Semiconductor and biomedical devices
Automating Inspection of Biomedical Wafers
A probing station that images thousands of electrodes and measures test structures, while staying fully usable for R&D.
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Industrial manufacturing
An End-of-Line Test Stand for Industrial Chillers
Automated end-of-line testing for Drake Refrigeration's industrial chillers, with live flow control, data capture, and reports.
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Industrial refrigeration
ChillerGuard, a Chiller Monitor That Serves Its Own Web App
An embedded monitoring and control unit for Drake Refrigeration's industrial chillers, with its own built-in web application for live status, setup, email alarms, a month of logged data, and remote firmware updates.
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Motion control
The LabVIEW Driver for Arcus Motion Controllers
A LabVIEW driver suite that Arcus Technology released to its customers, so even novice developers can get its USB stepper motors running quickly.
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Process monitoring
Thermal Video and Chemical Analysis on One Timeline
Software that runs a near-infrared analyzer and records thermal video of a high-temperature mixing process, with both kept in sync.
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Rehabilitation research
Balance Exercises Steered by a Patient's Own Weight
Research exercises in which patients steer an on-screen marker by shifting their weight on a force platform, with every session recorded for analysis.
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Biomedical education
Rebuilding the "Plastic Dog"
A cardiovascular training simulator with late-1960s hardware and an old C program, rebuilt with modern hardware and LabVIEW.
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Millisecond Event Markers for Movement Research
Two LabVIEW tools that mark every cue and movement in a motor-control study's EEG recording within milliseconds, built to be reused in later studies.
Read the storyWater utilities
A Low-Cost Data Logger for Remote Water Plants
A standalone embedded logger that records well levels and tank pressures at unattended plants, cheap enough to put at every site and simple enough for field staff.
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Monitoring Software for a Wireless Vest, Built Before the Vest Was Done
The PC side of a wearable ECG and respiration monitor, plus a working stand-in for the vest, so software and hardware could be developed side by side.
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Showing Surgical Trainees How Hard They're Cutting
Software for an instrumented bone-cutting trainer that shows the direction and strength of every cut as it happens, and keeps a record of each trainee's cuts.
Read the storyAnalytical instruments
Turning a Bench Prototype into a Self-Running Oil Analyzer
Hardware selection and full automation for a field instrument that tracks changes in engine oil, from pumping a sample to firing a spark and capturing its spectrum, with safety checks running the whole time.
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Keeping a Proven Test Application Alive on Modern Hardware
A legacy measurement application moved to current software and USB data acquisition, while still running on the older hardware already in service.
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From a Manual Test Stand to a Touchscreen Test Station
An automated replacement for an obsolete, fully manual test stand, running break-in, steady-state, and transient tests on a speed governor before it goes into the final assembly.
Read the storyMedical research instruments
Finding Every Red Blood Cell in an Image
An image-processing routine that locates red blood cells in captured images and reports each cell's center, built for a custom motion and vision system used in medical research.
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One Screen to Run a Research Reactor's Heat and Gas
Software temperature control for two tube furnaces and four heating tapes, with programmable heating profiles, an over-temperature safety relay, gas flow control, and a complete record of every run.
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Filtration membranes
Taking the Guesswork Out of a Membrane Pressure Test
An automated bubble point test that raises air pressure on a membrane sample along a programmed profile, so every sample is tested the same way, replacing a hand-turned regulator.
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Laboratory automation
Finding Out What an Instrument's Sensors Could Really Do
Software, electronics, and a great deal of R&D for an instrument meant to measure the fluid in every well of a microplate, including the testing that showed what its sensors could and couldn't do.
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Amusement parks
A Roller Coaster Photo System That Paid for Itself Many Times Over
A complete ride photography system, designed end to end, that captures riders at the most dramatic drop, shows them their photos as they exit, and prints the ones they buy on the spot.
Read the storyNeuroscience research
One Control Panel for Sound, Touch, Light, and Heat
A stimulus control application for a research institute's behavior-tracking rigs, replacing a discontinued control card and driving four kinds of custom and off-the-shelf stimulus hardware, alone or in sync.
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Sports safety devices
Proving a Wearable Impact Sensor Against a Lab Reference
Test software for a drop rig that checks a wearable impact sensor against a precision reference accelerometer, impact by impact, with the head-injury measures computed for both side by side.
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