Services
I work with founders, research groups and engineering teams who need hardware that runs, and who’d rather not hire a full-time embedded engineer to get there.
What I take on
Work that sits between the electronics and the software, where most prototypes stall.
- Firmware for motors, sensors and actuators, including closed-loop control
- Custom boards: motor drivers, sensor front-ends, and the firmware for them
- Getting microcontrollers and ROS 2 systems to talk to each other
- Taking an existing prototype from “moves on the bench” to “runs reliably”
- Sensor data pipelines, from the device through MQTT to a dashboard
- Technical lead on builds with several people working in parallel: architecture, task breakdown, and the interfaces between them
How a project usually runs
A short call or a couple of emails to understand the problem, then a written scope with a fixed price and a delivery date before any work starts. Most projects run a few weeks. I work remotely, and I’m in Vienna if the hardware needs hands on it.
Availability
My capacity is largely committed at the moment. Around a day a week is open for a new project, which suits a defined piece of work better than an open-ended engagement. More frees up later in the year. If your timing is tight, put that in your first mail and you will get a straight answer about whether it is realistic.
What I need from you to quote
What the machine has to do, what already exists, what the deadline is, and the constraint that matters most: cost, size, power, or how fast it has to be finished. Rough answers are fine.
If you’re not sure whether it’s a fit, ask anyway. A short conversation is usually enough to find out.
friedl.jak@gmail.com