Built. Measured. Written up.
Kinglet Labs is a small engineering lab in the Research Triangle, North Carolina. We build instruments, sensors, and small autonomous systems, measure how they behave, and write up what we learn.
Instruments.
Sensors.
Autonomy.
We pick questions small enough to answer on a bench, build what they need, measure the result, and write it up. Most of the work is our own. Some of it is with people who have the same question.
What we work on
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Sensing and instrumentation
Low-cost sensors compared against reference instruments, to find out what they can and cannot measure.
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Embedded systems and autonomy
Firmware, control, and perception on small boards. What they can do, and where the limits are.
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Simulation and modelling
Numerical models checked against bench measurements, so we know where they hold and where they do not.
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Mechanical design and fabrication
Enclosures, mechanisms, and fixtures, designed around how they might fail and made in sheet metal, machining, and additive processes.
How a Kinglet Labs project goes
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Ask
A question narrow enough to answer on a bench. What exists, what has been tried, and what a result would need to look like to count.
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Design
Architecture, schematics, and a test plan, written down before anything is built.
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Build
Prototype, test, revise. Firmware, boards, enclosures, software, whichever the question needs.
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Write it up
Results, numbers, and what went wrong, with source and schematics where we can share them.
Case studies.
Nothing published yet. The first write-ups are in progress. If you would like to hear when they are up, get in touch.
Two people.
One bench.
The lab is the two of us, working out of the Research Triangle in North Carolina.
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Brian Taveras
Founder & Software Engineer
Has shipped production systems across hardware, firmware, and cloud. Looks after the software and electronics side of the lab.
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Obed Canario
Founder & Mechanical Engineer
Works across systems design, structural analysis, GD&T, bolted joints, and manufacturing in sheet metal, machining, and additive processes. Starts from first principles and failure modes, and prefers the simplest design that will do the job.
Working with the lab.
Most of what we do is our own. Some of it is with others. If a question on your bench overlaps with one on ours, there are a few ways that can go. The lab is two people, so we take on a little at a time.
Get in touch-
Sponsored study
You bring the question. We investigate it on the bench and write it up. You get the answer first, and we publish what we can afterwards.
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Joint project
Two teams, one build. Shared scope, shared results, shared credit on the write-up.
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A second opinion
An engineer on call for a team that wants another set of eyes on a design, a firmware problem, or a simulation result.
Say hello.
A question, a correction, or an idea that overlaps with ours. We reply within a few days.