Prototyping the Omata One
Prototyping the Omata One
Sketching in Hardware
A Printed Circuit Board with blue callouts
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Project Summary

Prototyping the Omata One in this early instance was a way to work through some of the ideas in hardware. I had a fairly clear idea of the functional requirements, but needed to work through them in a grounded way rather than just drawing boxes and arrow on sheets of paper. I'd descxribe this as a macro board representing the major subsystems tha twould need to be implemented. It gave me something to point at and say, "This is what I mean by the Omata One", and could feed directly into the engineering specifications. It was a way to work through the engineering requirements and get a better sense of the overall system. (This all from the perspective of engineering dept.; of course there are the brand aspects and such, but first you need a thing that does what it says it does — later you can make sure the character of it as a brand is right and consistent. But, if the thing doesn't work, then the brand is irrelevant.)

Client: Near Future Laboratory
Team: Near Future Laboratory
Project Year: 2025
Project Dates: 5/5/2025
Published On: May 5, 2025, 17:58
Updated On: May 5, 2025, 17:58
Written By: Julian Bleecker
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Project Semantic Tags
ENGINEERINGHARDWAREPATENTPROTOTYPING

The Outcomes

Having the skillset and temperment and drive to do this kind of work is a huge advantage here. Same would go for having at least the temperement and motivation to develop the OMATA iOS App, which I also developed rather than farming the work out to a third party where you basically get an expensive App, and no understanding of how it works or ability to change it without more expense.

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