THE CURRICULUM

Pillars of physical craft

We replace passive lectures with intense, project-based engineering. You will master the entire pipeline of physical product creation through three rigorous disciplines.

01 / HARDWARE
02 / FIRMWARE
03 / ENCLOSURES

Bench-ready circuits

Bare-metal code

Industrial design

Solder your own boards, route high-speed signals, and debug physical circuits under directional lab lighting.

Write optimized C and C++ to bring your custom routing and tactile components to life with zero abstraction.

Model, mill, and print enclosures that click, hum, and withstand real-world laboratory testing.

STUDENT PROTOTYPES

Built at the bench

These are actual physical-digital systems engineered from scratch by our cohorts. Every project represents real PCBs, custom-milled enclosures, and optimized embedded firmware that actually works.

ACADEMY METRICS

Rigor by the numbers

800+

hours of bench-craft

1:8

instructor ratio

100%

physical prototypes completed

Ready to build?

Applications are now open for our upcoming Detroit and Berlin cohorts. Secure your workbench, receive your component kit, and start building real hardware.