Supermechanical

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Making instruments for makers. Pickup is a sensor power tool: https://kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/pickup

A chick standing with a Pickup prototype.
A sleeping chick between Pickup and Twine environmental sensors.
Pickup prototype on top of insulated cooler.
Pickup graph widget showing temperature dropping to freezing and holding the temperature for several hours.
Box filled with MJF printed prototype parts for Pickup
Bowl of bananas, apple and a mango next to a Pickup VOC/particulate sensor.
Pickup board and spectral cart testing outside on a rainy day.
Distance sensor boards in a Pickup on a tripod, being tested against a wall.
Spectral sensor cartridge assembled and plugged into a prototype Pickup environmental monitor.
Circuitboard for CO2/humidity sensor cartridge for Pickup environmental monitor
Running sample parts at an injection molder in Maine to get the right color and translucency.
Demolding injection molded handles for our thermometer.
An anti-static package containing sensor samples.
An engineer holding the Pickup data logger he's been developing, finally in assembled form with a case and everything.
Diagrams of injection mold flow and draft from a moldability report. Exciting.
Cross section in CAD of the Pickup environmental monitor.
Final candidate Pickup PCBs. Need only a few tweaks.
Little baby chip trying to fit into adult pads on a PCB.
MQTT client reading data stream from the (in-development) Pickup data logger.
Six printed iterations of the Pickup data logger's case, in development.
Can you spot what was even shipped to me? Big box, tiny inserts.
8 Pickup prototype boards to assemble.
Meta: Legs are coming.
UV curing a printed prototype
Pickup data logger prototype PCBs, side one
A series of printed prototypes for the Pickup data logger