STUDIO KMD » Prototyping

Model Building and Prototyping Shop

Amy — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:29:08 +0000

Over the past year or so we’ve been investing a lot of time and money to renovate our space and build an onsite model shop. We are excited to share with you all the amazing new tools we have and the new retrofitted space to carry out all of your model building and prototyping needs! We continue to add new tools and have plans to build a few others as well.

The tools you will currently find in our shop:
Hitachi C10FL Table Saw
Delta Shopmaster Miter Saw
12″ Disc Sander
Jet 12″ Drill Press
Rikon 14″ Band Saw

Check back for continued shop updates or visit our “What Is” section explaining our other capabilities.

Lilypad Workshop

Amy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:41:31 +0000

Bryce and Matt were invited to conduct a workshop at the Adidas Wearable Sports Electronics Division located in Wilmington Delaware on Fat Tuesday (hence the beads). The topic of the day was the wearable and textile electronic prototyping. We had a quick introduction but most of our day was spent diving head first into the use of the Arduino Lilypad. Bryce expressed “I have never seen such an ambitious group, these guys weren’t going to settle for blinking LED’s. . . They were able to grasp the logic behind the Arduino code faster than any group I’ve seen.” The group went on to experiment with several types of digital and analog sensors with quite impressive results.

Attached is the code that was prepared by Matt and Bryce to help help solve some of the common issues they thought the newcomers might face. Of course if you need the Arduino software it is available here and don’t forget to check out the site of the developers Leah Beuchley and SparkFun.

Photo-resistor to Vibration Motor

LillyPadPresentation

Fast Freeze

Matt — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:02:47 +0000

The Fast Freeze was a fully functional Prototype built as a proof of concept for our client to raise investment capital. It was designed to cool wine, beer, soda or any other round bottle to drinking temperature rapidly and also dispensed ice and cold water. He was heading to the International Home and Housewares show so we also whipped up a logo and some vinyl graphics for him.

The body of the prototype consists of brushed aluminum panels, aluminum hardware, laser cut and thermo-formed PMMA panels. The internal components included three water tight PMMA chambers, a removable sealed ball bearing rotational chilling assembly as well as a custom silicon cast duel chamber ice maker.

The prototype contains 3 pump, 1motor, 5buttons, 1 switch, 2 temperature sensors and a handful of relays. They were all controlled by 2 Arduino micro controllers. The full functionality of the Fast Freeze was coded in the Arduino development environment by Studio KMD. The code used in this project is available upon request to help advance this type of physical prototyping.