Atrick Design untangles complex products, from first idea to production.
A mechanical, electrical and software product development shop in Killingworth, Connecticut. When a product is stuck, failing in the field, or still just an idea, I find the real cause and build a fix that works in production.
One designer across every discipline means the problems that hide between the mechanical, electrical and software sides get caught early, before they turn expensive.
Numbers from shipped work
Including work from my seven years as a product developer at a Connecticut contract manufacturer, before founding Atrick Design.
- ~20% to 100%Duty cycle on the Fastcorp DIVI vending platform after redesigning its robot and vacuum system.
- >90%On a commercial treadmill line, redesigns cut full-machine factory returns by more than 90%, as reported by the manufacturer. Fastcorp reported DIVI RMAs down about 90%.
- Within 2%Delivered on schedule and within 2% of my up-front budget forecast on a hardware program.
- 1.18 gCornering on the Holman Moody TdF Mustang in testing at VIR and Lime Rock. I designed its front and rear sway bars.
- 350,000Vends on a DIVI robot kept running after it passed its 250,000-vend life test. It was still working fine.
Restoration and race parts
Parts nobody makes anymore, recreated and improved
These GT40 headers started as a 3D scan of the engine and an original header. Every tube was routed in CAD for equal lengths, the original design’s problems were corrected, and the prototype was hand fabricated and tack welded on custom weld fixtures so the next one comes out the same.
Problem solving
When a product is stuck, find the real cause
Too many returns. A machine that works on the bench and fails in the field. A team that cannot agree on what is wrong. The work is diagnosing what is actually broken, not what people think is broken, then landing on the simplest fix that lasts.
This ground connection corroded in the field and let static kill control boards. A welded stainless screw and a braided strap, together with one other fix, ended those failures.
Large-format and high-accuracy 3D printing
Full-size parts, up to 1 meter tall in one print
Prints up to 800 × 800 × 1000 mm (31.5 × 31.5 × 39.4 in), plus a high-resolution resin printer for fine detail and tight dimensions. These full-size GT40 gear and differential cases were printed to plan the CNC machining and fixturing of the real castings.
3D scanning and reverse engineering
From a physical part to editable CAD
Parts are 3D scanned in-house, checked against caliper and tape measurements, and turned into STL, STEP or full parametric CAD. On this raw GT40 casting, the green cylinders show the machinists exactly where each cutter will first meet raw material.
Electronics and PCBA
From wires in headers to a real circuit board
A treadmill display had gone into production as an Arduino prototype with wires pushed into header pins. It was rebuilt as a dedicated PCBA that kept the same look, added protection and a low-battery warning, and ran much longer on a battery charge. Boards, controls and firmware are designed alongside the mechanics they run.
Prototype to production
Your technical co-founder, without the equity cost
From napkin sketch to working prototype, then to a design that can be built consistently and affordably, with DFM, DFA and DFMA built in from the start. This robot went from fragile plastic to sheet metal, and the redesign took duty cycle from about 20% to 100%.
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What getting from an idea to a real part looks like
One job, start to finish: a set of GT40 headers built to match the originals, with the original design’s problems corrected along the way.
3D scan the engine and an original header for reference. Route every tube in CAD, equal lengths, bend-friendly radii. Design weld fixtures so every set comes out the same. Tack weld and check the fit. The customer finished the welding and polish.
What clients say
★★★★★“Jay was fantastic to work with! He quickly understood my product, identified areas for improvement, and proposed innovative changes that drastically enhanced its performance. He even 3D-printed components for testing. Jay is highly skilled, fairly priced, and easy to work with. I’ll definitely be consulting him for future projects.”
★★★★★“Frictionless. Customer service was well informed, and made things simple. I had a small artifact to be scanned and turned into a .stl file. The file handoff was quick and worked fine.”
★★★★★“One of our higher profile projects was to engineer, prototype and test a suspension for a track car, which had a lot of corporate eyes on it. The end result was a car that exceeded anyones expectations, and ultimately wound up in production and available at any dealer.”
Have a product that is stuck, or an idea that needs building?
Describe it in a few sentences: what it should do, what is going wrong, and any deadline. Atrick Design will tell you plainly whether it is a good fit, and if it is not, say so.