Services

Fixed prices for the situations I see most: a product to design and build, units failing in the field, a board to check before it's built, a compliance test to pass, a building or plant network whose meters and sensors keep dropping out (RS-485/Modbus), Linux and Bluetooth products on software nobody maintains, and ongoing support. Each package is priced on its page.

Each package below starts with the situation you’re in, says what you get, and has its price and turnaround on the page. They’re bounded on purpose: you know what it costs before you get in touch.

Anything open-ended starts with the diagnostic week, because I don’t quote what I haven’t looked inside. Work outside these packages is quoted as a fixed-scope project from AUD 15,000; a smaller fix that comes out of a diagnostic week goes on a support retainer instead.

• I have a product idea and need it designed, built and made

  Product electronics from idea to manufactured units, one engineer for hardware, firmware, test and manufacturing handoff. Feasibility week AUD 6,000, then fixed-price stages. Whole products typically AUD 40,000–170,000 over 6–18 months.

  Feasibility week AUD 6,000, credited against the build over AUD 20,000 within 90 days · Sprints AUD 15,000 per two weeks · Whole product typically AUD 40,000–170,000 · Feasibility plan in 10 business days · Whole product 6–18 months

• Something we make keeps failing and nobody can say why

  Units failing in the field, a project that stalled, or a big decision you want an independent read on: one week inside the problem and a written report you can act on with or without me. AUD 6,000, report within 10 business days.

  AUD 6,000 · Written report within 10 business days of your material arriving

• We're about to build a hundred. What's going to go wrong?

  Before the pilot run: a review of your BOM, assembly data, test procedure and programming steps, with a written punch list of what the contract manufacturer will trip over. AUD 4,500. Production test fixture designed and built as a follow-on.

  Manufacturing-readiness review AUD 4,500 · Test fixture design and build quoted from the review · Review in 10 business days · Fixture typically 4–8 weeks

• Will it pass the compliance test?

  Find out on my bench what the test lab will find on theirs, before you pay for the lab. For DC-powered and 24 V AC/DC industrial, marine and vehicle products heading for RCM or CE. Pre-scan and report AUD 3,500; with fixes and compliance folder AUD 6,500.

  Pre-scan and report AUD 3,500 · Pre-scan, fixes and compliance folder AUD 6,500 · 1–2 weeks

• Someone designed us a circuit board. Is it right?

  A contractor, a tool or an AI produced your board design. Before you build a hundred, have an engineer who ships hardware check it, bring up the first units and get it ready for RCM/CE. Design review AUD 2,500; review plus bring-up AUD 6,000.

  Design review AUD 2,500 · Review plus bring-up of your first units AUD 6,000 · Add an EMC pre-scan from AUD 3,500 · Review 3–5 business days · Bring-up 1–2 weeks after boards arrive

• Our RS-485 or Modbus network keeps dropping out

  Devices go offline on a long RS-485 run, meters won't read, the BMS shows garbage after a storm. A written review of your wiring, your meters and sensors, and a recording of the traffic on the network, with the fixes ranked, AUD 2,500. On-site day in Melbourne AUD 2,000.

  Network review (remote, written) AUD 2,500 · On-site day, Melbourne, on its own or after the review, AUD 2,000 · Add the meter-integration review AUD 1,500 · Review in 5–10 business days · On-site by arrangement

• Our Linux-based product boots slowly, can't be updated in the field, or nobody dares touch the build

  For products running embedded Linux: an assessment of the build, boot and update story, then fixed-price sprints to fix it — Buildroot and Yocto, kernel and root filesystem, boot-time reduction, remote firmware update. Assessment AUD 6,000, sprints AUD 15,000.

  Assessment via the diagnostic week AUD 6,000 · Sprints AUD 15,000 per two weeks · Assessment in 10 business days · Typical product 1–3 sprints

• Our Bluetooth product runs on software Nordic no longer develops

  Products still on the nRF5 SDK: an honest assessment of what the move to nRF Connect SDK / Zephyr involves, then fixed-price two-week sprints to do it, including the over-the-air update path for units already in the field. Assessment AUD 6,000; sprints AUD 15,000.

  Assessment via the diagnostic week AUD 6,000 · Migration sprints AUD 15,000 per two-week sprint · Assessment in 10 business days · Typical product 2–4 sprints

• A senior engineer in our corner, a few hours a month

  For products I've worked on or assessed: a capped block of engineering hours every month, next-business-day written response, monthly statement, no surprises. AUD 1,250 for 5 h, 2,500 for 10 h, 4,500 for 20 h.

  AUD 1,250 / month for 5 h · AUD 2,500 / month for 10 h · AUD 4,500 / month for 20 h · Next business day, in writing