Design and build
Custom electronics
Schematic, board, firmware and enclosure from one workshop, and it updates over the air after it leaves it.
- One workshop
- CAN bus
- Encrypted updates
01 / The problem
Who owns the result?
Bespoke electronics usually passes through several hands. One party draws the board, another writes the firmware, a third makes the housing, and nobody owns the result when it misbehaves in the car.
The seams between them are where the schedule goes and where the fault hides.
02 / The whole chain
Everything in one workshop
Every step is done here, so each one is designed knowing what the next one needs.
Schematic and board
Designed here, with our own component libraries and 3D models, so the board fits the space it has to live in.
Firmware
Written here for each device and the job it does.
Settings in a browser
The device serves its own settings page over its own Wi-Fi, so settings can be changed from any phone or laptop.
Updates over the air
Encrypted update packages only. The device refuses an unencrypted image, so foreign firmware cannot be loaded into it.
Bus connection
CAN to the engine management, with the signals you need picked out and displayed. MaxxECU is the bus we know best.
Enclosure
3D printed housings and brackets, designed together with the board.
03 / In the car
A device that lives on the bus
It listens to the engine management over CAN, picks out the signals the job needs and does its one thing with them: show, measure or control.
04 / Design details
Design details
The kind of detail that only gets made when the same people draw the board and the box.
05 / Technical
What it is made of
| Design | Schematic and PCB layout in house, with our own 3D component libraries. |
|---|---|
| Bus | CAN, classic 500 kbit/s in the current products. |
| Displays | Five inch touch, round gauges and AMOLED bar gauges have all been built. |
| Settings | Browser page served by the device over its own Wi-Fi access point. |
| Updates | Over the air, encrypted package enforced by the device. |
| Enclosure | 3D printed, designed alongside the board. |
| Supply | Vehicle supply, protected for the installation. |
06 / Availability
Availability
Displays and the thermocouple amplifier are products of their own and are sold in the shop. Everything else on this page is either our own development or work done to order.
Lighting electronics is built for competition and testing use. It is not type approved for road traffic.