Engineering services

Build a system around Gear Up, or commission custom electronics from scratch.

When a project needs hardware that meets a specific mission profile, with different connectors, a different power envelope, different sensors, or different firmware, we build it. End-to-end, in Belgium.

02. Integration support for OEMs and integrators

Gear Up products already cover the common cases (FC, AI carrier, ESC). When you're putting them into your own airframe, vehicle, or chassis, we sit alongside your team for the parts that matter:

Connector and form-factor adaptation

Bespoke pinouts, stack-mate patterns, castellated edges, thermal interfaces. Drop the boards into the platform you already designed.

EMC and signal integrity

Layout discipline that survives the bench and the certification lab. Sensor isolation, ground partitioning, separated power domains.

Firmware tuning

Calibration constants, peripheral integration, custom telemetry. We can also push the changes you need into the upstream firmware (PX4, ArduPilot, Betaflight, AM32) so you don't carry a private fork.

Certification dossier support

Test reports, EU declarations of conformity, NDAA and supply-chain documentation. We give you the hardware-side artefacts so your compliance team can close the file.

03. Custom engineering from scratch

When the off-the-shelf catalog doesn't fit, we design ground-up. We've shipped boards across multiple silicon families (STM32, Nordic, NVIDIA Jetson) and the open-source firmware stacks layered on top of them.

Power stages

High-current motor-drive electronics, voltage-regulator design, EMI-aware layout. From 6S quadcopters through 14S industrial-class platforms.

Compute and AI carriers

Carrier boards for NVIDIA Jetson modules. Power conditioning, sensor I/O, mass storage, custom expansion. Built around real airframe constraints.

RF and telemetry

GNSS, telemetry links, command-and-control radios. Antennas placed where they belong, not where they fit.

Firmware bring-up

Schematic-to-blinking-LED in days, not weeks. Comfortable across STM32, Nordic, NVIDIA, and the open-source flight-control stacks (PX4, ArduPilot, Betaflight, AM32, INAV).

Designed and manufactured in Belgium.

EU-traceable supply chain. Pick-and-place lines we walk into. Bench testing on every revision. The hardware your customers depend on isn't a black box from somewhere far away.

Open firmware, by default

Open-source flight stacks are the moat. Every board we ship has its target merged into the upstream firmware repos that integrators actually deploy:

This is the fastest path from "we picked Gear Up" to "we shipped the platform". No firmware fork, no private maintenance burden, no vendor lock.

Who we work with

Industrial UAV OEMs, robotics integrators, research consortia, and product teams that need a small, fast, EU-based hardware partner. Engagements typically start with a scoping conversation, move to a fixed-bid or time-and-materials phase, and end with a delivered hardware revision plus the firmware to bring it up.

We work in English, Dutch, and French, headquartered in Lierde, Belgium.

What to expect from a first call.

A 30-minute scoping conversation with a builder, not a salesperson. We walk through the platform, the constraints, and whether off-the-shelf Gear Up plus integration support, or full custom electronics from scratch, is the right path for the project.