Custom Design and Manufacturing

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Need some extra circuitry for your microcontroller board? Do you have an idea for an Arduino shield? Does your company need some custom electronics? Let us design a professional solution for you that exactly meets your specifications.

Services

Rugged Circuits has both the breadth and depth of expertise to help with any custom design, including:

System design, requirements, concept selection
Detailed circuit design
Design optimization
Prototyping
Printed circuit board (PCB) layout
PCB manufacturing (low and high volume)
PCB assembly (low and high volume) including functional test
Firmware development
Documentation

Intellectual Property

Rugged Circuits does not retain any intellectual property to your product. We will deliver all IP necessary to recreate or duplicate your project (including schematics, PCB files, firmware, etc.) at the completion of the project.

Arduino Shields

Have an idea for the next great Arduino shield or product? Let us help you bring it to market. We can help you with any and all steps from initial conception through component selection, PCB design, prototyping, manufacturing, and distribution. You can sell your shield product through our web store or at the distributor of your choice. We work closely with you to optimize your design for maximum profit and minimum manufacturing costs.

Is There a Form to Fill Out?

Every design is different. We will work with you one-on-one to make your custom design a reality. There is no form to fill out because no matter how many questions it had it could not capture the uniqueness of your design.

Send an e-mail to <support@ruggedcircuits.com> and let us know what you need. There is no obligation and no commitment.

Sample Work

Here are some custom designs that we have finished recently.

Our client needed an Arduino-based custom design with WiFi, multiple servo outputs, GPS connector, and a motor H-bridge output. This tiny board includes a switching regulator to power the board, servos, and H-bridge at up to 2A from 4 AA cells. An innovative circuit uses a soft switch to power on the unit and the same switch to power it off when pressed for 5 seconds.

Our client needed an Arduino-based custom design with WiFi and four RGB LED strip outputs. Only 1.8” x 1.5”, the board is powered from a 3.7V lithium battery, which can be charged from the USB port. External FLASH memory is included for future expansion.

Our client needed an Arduino shield with two BMP085 sensors for evaluation. The shield includes an industrial connection to an RS232 port. Total time from project start to shipping 10 units to the customer: two weeks.

Our client needed a custom shield for the Arduino Mega board. The shield simultaneously decodes six quadrature encoder devices and supports step rates as fast as 25,000 steps per second. Also, both single-ended and differential encoder outputs are supported.

Our client needed a custom control system for an industrial machine. Features include triple RS485 outputs, graphic LCD display interface with dimmable backlight (the LCD display mounts directly to the back of the PCB), 4x4 keypad interface, real-time clock, 8 discrete and protected I/O’s, and in-the-field firmware upgrades over USB.

Our client needed a PID-based controller and driver system for a unipolar stepper motor. Features include full interactive USB control over motion, adjustable PID parameters, support for two quadrature decoders (one low-resolution, one high-resolution), sync outputs for stepper home position, and high-speed clock outputs synchronized to high-resolution decoder inputs.

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