BLUE SPARQ, INC.
CAPE CORAL, FLORIDA

Blue Sparq, Inc. is a product development company specializing in rapid prototypes to production manufacturing. Our experience with capacitive touch user interfaces will bring a modern look and feel to your new product! We Are Blue Sparq Inc. was formed to provide convenient outsourcing of engineering services to companies in a broad range of industries. Our engineers use Altium Designer and SolidWorks, the latest in 3D CAD software, making it very easy for you to integrate 3D models of our circuit boards and mechanical parts into your product designs. Having the latest version of the following software makes it easy for us to open any document you send us. Being able to provide "Looks Like, Feels Like" high quality prototypes to our customers quickly and at an affordable price is very important to us. One way we are able to do this is by having production grade equipment available to our engineers for prototyping purposes. This gives our customers confidence that their production pieces will look and perform identically to their prototypes. We have noticed that our customers need help getting over the hump between prototyping and large volume production. After the prototype is approved, it makes sense to do a pilot production run of a small quantity, like 100 pieces. Since we have added these production grade machines at our finger tips, we can easily run a small volume at a much lower price than having them made by our large volume manufacturing partner. With Blue Sparq, you will never waste time describing your project to a salesman only to repeat yourself when an engineer finally returns your call. When you call Blue Sparq, you can speak directly to a design engineer! Let us help you with your project. Blue Sparq, Inc. is a product development company specializing in rapid prototypes to production manufacturing. Our experience with capacitive touch user interfaces will bring a modern look and feel to your new product! We Are Blue Sparq Inc. was formed to provide convenient outsourcing of engineering services to companies in a broad range of industries. Our engineers use Altium Designer and SolidWorks, the latest in 3D CAD software, making it very easy for you to integrate 3D models of our circuit boards and mechanical parts into your product designs. Having the latest version of the following software makes it easy for us to open any document you send us. Being able to provide "Looks Like, Feels Like" high quality prototypes to our customers quickly and at an affordable price is very important to us. One way we are able to do this is by having production grade equipment available to our engineers for prototyping purposes. This gives our customers confidence that their production pieces will look and perform identically to their prototypes. We have noticed that our customers need help getting over the hump between prototyping and large volume production. After the prototype is approved, it makes sense to do a pilot production run of a small quantity, like 100 pieces. Since we have added these production grade machines at our finger tips, we can easily run a small volume at a much lower price than having them made by our large volume manufacturing partner. With Blue Sparq, you will never waste time describing your project to a salesman only to repeat yourself when an engineer finally returns your call. When you call Blue Sparq, you can speak directly to a design engineer! Let us help you with your project. Our customer provided us a beautiful rendering of the touch keypad assembly. With this drawing we could now have a very productive conversation. This rendering allows the engineer to think about all of the requirements for bringing the idea to life, from the different color uniform lighting to the mechanical shape and thin form factor that is required. This rendering also makes us aware if the customer needed some type of mechanical housing to pull off the full look and feel that they are looking for. Since the electronics/graphic and lighting overlays and the mechanical housing designs all must fit together perfectly, it is very important that all of this design work is done simultaneously. Once all the aspects of the design requirements are discussed, we then put together a design plan . The design plan basically summarizes our conversation and shows the customer our true understanding of what is required for their new product. For this project, we put together the following design plan: We are going to use our PCB type capacitive touch keypad. This means the PCB will have the touch pads on the top surface of the PCB and all of the necessary electronics on the back side of the PCB. A custom GUI interface will be used for the setup and demo control of these capacitive touch keypads. The customer has a trade show that they are attending in a couple of weeks and needs some way of showing all of the keypads working together as well as being able to change the colors of the lighting. This same windows application software can be used to do acceptance testing of future production keypads. 2013 Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition. The customer was very excited because not only were we able to commit to finishing the design and build the prototypes on time for their show, but that our prototypes will look like, feel like and function like the real thing! Even our electronics are machine assembled. Their customers attending the show will not be able to detect that these are the first prototypes. They will look like actual production parts! Now for the fun part! We want to walk you through the following design process: It is very important that the electronics, graphic and lighting overlays, and mechanicals are designed simultaneously. Doing this ensures that the complete assembly will fit together correctly the first time. After all, we don’t have time for mistakes! software allows us to make the schematic, PCB layout and 3D mechanical design of the PCB all in one software environment. The 3D mechanical part can be easily imported into our Solid Works 3d design software so that it can be checked for interferences and make sure everything will fit and work the first time. Altium designer also directly communicates with our pick and place line making the assembly of the prototypes. The first thing we design is the electrical schematic. Our team works closely together during this design phase. It is important that the prototype can be programmed to do what the customer needs. The next thing to do is layout the electronics. Simultaneously the graphic overlay and lighting layer are designed using