Engineering & manufacturing
Electronics for vending equipment, designed and built in-house
The team behind the TelemetryOnTap platform also designs the electronics inside the machine, then assembles, programs and tests them in our own shop. Bring us a new machine, or a board that needs replacing.
Design
From requirement to production-ready board
Control, power and interface electronics, and the firmware that runs on them.
- Schematic & PCB layout
- Multi-layer board design in Altium and KiCad, from the first schematic to a production release: fabrication files, bill of materials, placement data and assembly drawings.
- Pump, valve & motor drive
- Driver stages for pumps, solenoid valves and motors, with current sensing and protection sized for the duty cycle of a busy machine.
- Power
- Distribution for the whole machine: regulated rails, monitoring and protection, with outputs that can be switched and reported on.
- Sensors & machine networks
- Sensor front ends, CAN bus networks between boards, and the interconnect boards and harnesses that tie a machine together.
- Front panels & displays
- LED lighting, buttons, handle electronics and touchscreen display controllers for the customer-facing side of the machine.
- Firmware & embedded Linux
- Microcontroller firmware on the Zephyr RTOS, and Linux head units running managed OS images that update over the air.
- Designed for test
- Test points and programming access are part of the layout, so every board can be programmed and checked on a fixture.
- Connected from the start
- The electronics we design can report to the TelemetryOnTap platform, with telemetry, remote diagnostics and updates built in.
Manufacturing
Assembled, programmed and tested in our own shop
Design, assembly and test under one roof, so a change to the board, its firmware and its fixture happens together.
- PCB assembly
- Surface-mount and through-hole assembly in our own shop.
- Prototypes to small runs
- From the first boards on the bench to small production runs, built by the same team that designed them.
- Programming & test
- Every board is flashed and tested on a pogo-pin fixture made for it, and the result is recorded for each board.
- Fixtures built in-house
- Programming and test fixtures are generated from the board design files, so a new board gets its own fixture without a separate project.
Working with us
Start wherever your project is
- A requirement. Tell us what the machine has to do, and we design the electronics and firmware for it.
- A board to replace. Redesign an existing board around parts you can still buy, or add connectivity to it.
- Telemetry if you want it. Machines with our electronics can join the platform, but they don't have to.
Device documentation
Already running our electronics? Setup, configuration and firmware guides are in the device docs.
Need electronics for a new machine?
Tell us what the machine needs to do, the volumes and the timeline. We will tell you how we would approach it.