Motor control & power electronics
BLDC speed control firmware and custom battery charge/discharge systems.
Embedded engineering
Embedded systems that fly, drive and connect.
We design and build the firmware and electronics behind drones, motors, batteries and long-range sensor networks. Every capability on this page comes from a system we built and ran on real hardware.
- embedded projects on real hardware
- 7
- engineering domains, from power to AI
- 4
- Cortex-M7 running a real-time Extended Kalman Filter
- 600 MHz
- flight control loop rate
- 400 kHz
01 · What we know
Four domains, one team.
Clients rarely need just one piece. A drone needs motor drivers, a battery it can trust, a flight controller, a radio link and increasingly an AI layer. We cover the full chain.
Flight control & real-time systems
Hard real-time control loops and sensor fusion on high-performance MCUs.
- Real-time flight controller with EKF
- Protoboarding & board bring-up
Wireless & long-range connectivity
LoRa and LoRaWAN links for sensors far from fixed infrastructure, in any market.
Edge AI & airspace awareness
Vision and detection running next to the sensor, in real time.
02 · Proven on real hardware
Where our know-how comes from.
Our embedded know-how was built hands-on, on real hardware. Each piece of work below adds to the knowledge we bring to a new product.
Motor control
ESC for brushless motors
An in-house ESC, independent of imported modules, with firmware the team can tune and evolve.
Motor control
ESC for brushless motors
- Why it mattered
- Importing off-the-shelf speed controllers was slow and unreliable. The goal was an electronic speed controller the product owner fully controls.
- What we built
- Motor-driver firmware for brushless (BLDC) motors on two NXP microcontroller families, from protoboard to running motors.
- Result
- An in-house ESC, independent of imported modules, with firmware the team can tune and evolve.
NXP LPC84xLPC86xCortex-M0+LPCXpresso824-MAXLPCXpresso860-MAXMCUXpresso IDE
Power electronics
Custom battery charger / discharger
Battery handling designed around the product, not around what a store-bought charger allows.
Power electronics
Custom battery charger / discharger
- Why it mattered
- Batteries decide how long a drone flies and how long it lasts. Generic chargers do not fit every pack, workflow or test need.
- What we built
- A custom charger and discharger with embedded control of charge and discharge cycles, so packs can be charged, discharged and cycled in a controlled way.
- Result
- Battery handling designed around the product, not around what a store-bought charger allows.
Power electronicsCharge/discharge controlEmbedded firmware
Flight control
Real-time flight controller
A high-rate control and estimation core we can adapt to new airframes and sensors.
Flight control
Real-time flight controller
- Why it mattered
- Stable flight depends on how fast and how accurately the controller estimates state and reacts.
- What we built
- A flight control loop running at 400 kHz on Teensy 4.0, using its 600 MHz Cortex-M7 for a real-time Extended Kalman Filter.
- Result
- A high-rate control and estimation core we can adapt to new airframes and sensors.
Teensy 4.0NXP i.MX RT1062Cortex-M7Extended Kalman FilterIMU sensor fusion
Edge AI · Open source
AI target tracking on the OSD
Tracked targets appear in the pilot's goggles. The OSD work was contributed upstream to the iNav open-source project.
Edge AI · Open source
AI target tracking on the OSD
- Why it mattered
- Pilots need AI assistance without giving up manual control or changing how they fly.
- What we built
- An object-detection pipeline on a companion computer that processes live telemetry and draws target-tracking markers on the iNav On-Screen Display in real time.
- Result
- Tracked targets appear in the pilot's goggles. The OSD work was contributed upstream to the iNav open-source project.
Computer visionCompanion computerMSP protocoliNav
Long-range wireless
Drone LoRa relay / gateway
Coverage that goes where the drone goes, without building towers.
Long-range wireless
Drone LoRa relay / gateway
- Why it mattered
- Sensors in fields, forests and remote sites are often out of reach of any fixed gateway.
- What we built
- A LoRa relay and gateway carried by a drone, bridging remote sensor nodes to the network where no infrastructure exists.
- Result
- Coverage that goes where the drone goes, without building towers.
LoRaLoRaWANDrone payload integrationEmbedded firmware
IoT · LoRaWAN
Dynamic LoRaWAN region changing
One hardware design for several markets, with less reflashing and a simpler supply chain.
IoT · LoRaWAN
Dynamic LoRaWAN region changing
- Why it mattered
- LoRaWAN frequency plans differ by region (for example EU868 and US915). Devices are normally locked to one region at build time.
- What we built
- Firmware that changes the LoRaWAN regional configuration at runtime, so the same device can operate under different regional plans.
- Result
- One hardware design for several markets, with less reflashing and a simpler supply chain.
LoRaWAN regional parametersRuntime configurationEmbedded firmware
Airspace awareness
Drone Detection System
Situational awareness of the airspace around a site, built by a team that also builds drones.
Airspace awareness
Drone Detection System
- Why it mattered
- Unauthorised drones are a growing risk for infrastructure, sites and events.
- What we built
- A system that detects drones in a monitored area and alerts operators, with processing done in embedded hardware at the edge.
- Result
- Situational awareness of the airspace around a site, built by a team that also builds drones.
Detection & alertingEdge processingEmbedded systems
03 · Technology
What we work with.
- Microcontrollers & boards
- NXP LPC84xNXP LPC86xCortex-M0+NXP i.MX RT1062Teensy 4.0Cortex-M7LPCXpresso824-MAXLPCXpresso860-MAX
- Wireless
- LoRaLoRaWANMulti-region operation
- Drone systems
- iNavMSP protocolOSDCompanion computersPayload integration
- Control & power
- BLDC motor control (ESC)Battery charge/dischargeReal-time control loopsExtended Kalman Filter
- AI & sensing
- Object detectionTarget trackingDrone detection
- Tools & languages
- MCUXpresso IDEC/C++Python
04 · Why us
We build what we fly.
Real hardware, not slides
Every capability here comes from a system that ran on a bench, in the air or in the field.
The whole chain
Power, motors, flight control, radio and AI: one team instead of five suppliers.
Field-ready connectivity
LoRa links that reach remote sites and devices that work across LoRaWAN regions.
Open-source credibility
Our OSD work is contributed upstream to iNav, where the community can review it.
Have a board, a battery or a drone that needs a brain?
Tell us what you are building. We will come back with a proposal for a feasibility sprint.