Gadgetory

so this lab is essentially where we do research and development for all of our hardware we've been doing hardware for a long time primarily on the proton the testing and validation side and now we're able to prototype parts as well so instead of having them made by other companies we can make our own parts in-house first pieces of equipment I want to talk about is actually our water jet it's high-pressure water and that water will cut through pretty much anything this is our surround 360 our 3d 360 camera I just wanted to show you this because this actual outside shroud this is something that we could prototype on our water jet this machine is our one of our three axis milling machines it's the biggest one that we that we currently have this is kind of like the workhorse of the shop it's very versatile it's very easy to use so an example of that would be the propeller from the Aquila so we won't be making the propeller but we will be making the tools to support the prototyping build so this machine will take a piece of sheet metal and actually fold it up to the specified angle and it's capable of prototyping a lot of very interesting sheetmetal components some of those components would be in our server rack so this is our five axis milling machine and this is my favorite machine it's a very powerful machine that can do very complex prototypes very quickly and accurately took about nine months to build the space the new area it's 22,000 square feet we'll have about 8 to 10 dedicated staff here in the lab that there's room here for about 80 other engineers will be working on specific projects so I guess the two things that we look for is innovation with hardware if we don't feel like the industry is moving in the right direction making our own hardware allows us to do our own innovation and it also generally provides a lower-cost product for us at the end of the day