Design
Designing for manufacturability from day one
Why the best products bake production constraints into their earliest sketches.
Aditya R.·Jun 24, 2026 6 min read
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Design, prototyping and manufacturing — from the people building it.
Prototyping
From CAD to functional prototype in 48 hours
A walkthrough of how we compress a week of iteration into two days.
Jun 18, 2026 5 min read
Materials
Choosing the right polymer for your product
PLA, PETG, Nylon, TPU — a practical guide to picking a material that ships.
Jun 10, 2026 8 min read
Case Study
How a hardware startup shipped in 90 days
Inside a compressed timeline from napkin sketch to certified pilot production.
May 30, 2026 7 min read
Engineering
Tolerance stack-ups without the headache
A field-tested framework for taming tolerances in multi-part assemblies.
May 21, 2026 9 min read
Process
Small-batch production: the bridge you actually need
Why jumping straight to injection molding is often the wrong first move.
May 12, 2026 6 min read
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