Carbide Labs was an organization with a passion for robotics, automation, grassroots technologies, and the tools needed to support them. The company was excited by the advancements in personal and industrial manufacturing. We brought new technologies to the industry to enable inventors and engineers to bring their ideas to life. Through strategic consulting activities, we built the relationships and resources to bootstrap the companies product development goals.
The company disbanded in 2015. However the group members have moved on to be industry leaders and are all still good friends.
The company disbanded in 2015. However the group members have moved on to be industry leaders and are all still good friends.
Products
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Product development activities were focused on two fronts. The first was in low cost tools for manufacturing, embodied in our first product, the TSR-1 Toolsetter. The TSR-1 served as an exercise in developing not only the product itself, but also the infrastructure needed to develop product pipelines from conceptualization, budgeting, design and review to production, marketing, and sales. We had a client who expressed interest in buying the design and manufacturing rights for the TSR-1 outright.
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Carbide’s second, and more ambitious, long-term goal was the development of tools for personal circuit prototyping and manufacturing. Inspired by the recent surge of interest in personal 3D printing technology and “maker” technologies. We believed there was a market for tools that allow on-site synthesis of printed circuit boards for individuals, laboratories, and light industrial users (the available processes for custom circuit fabrication are both too expensive and laborious for such users). Our first foray into this area is the “Pick n’ Paste”, a desktop sized device capable of precisely positioning circuit elements onto a pre-made base board.
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