A prototype, fit for purpose
An investor demonstrator, quoted at under 60 hours of development work, covering electronics and firmware for the agreed prototype scope.
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A client needed a working demonstrator to show prospective investors. Together, we defined which functions it needed to demonstrate, explained the engineering difficulty and dependencies, and agreed what could wait until the next stage.
Working alongside the industrial design partner, we defined the electronic architecture and drew the circuit schematics. We developed the prototype firmware and assembled the hardware into a working demonstrator, using a practical initial approach to keep development time and expenditure down.
We quoted under 60 hours of development work for this focused prototype. A more developed design ready for design validation would have required a substantially larger scope. By concentrating on what the client needed to demonstrate now, we kept the initial commitment manageable and left further development for the next stage.
The prototype gave the client something tangible to demonstrate. It was built for that purpose: its size, unit cost and performance would need further development for production, and the final technical approach remained open.