Anyone familiar with Rapid Prototyping?

[RudeBoie]

My company is looking for a recommendation on a Rapid Prototyping firm.

Preferrably, one with experience in building HIDs (mice, game controllers, keyboards).

We're in Sunnyvale (Bay Area), CA, but anyone good around the US is fine.

Just a FYI for those unfamiliar with the term:
The process of quickly generating prototypes or mockups of what a product system will look like. Rapid prototyping may be done with paper prototypes such as sketches, low-fidelity physical prototypes, CAD visualization, rapid application development, or video prototyping. These prototypes are frequently used to test quickly the product product?s technical feasibility or consumer interest.

 

[Armitage]

Had a class in this @ Cal State, Long Beach
Very cool stuff - almost considered trying to start a job-shop like company to do it. Can't help you with the reccomendation, but here's a bump for ya.

 

[AgentEL]

What kind of recommendation are you requesting?

I used RP in my User Interface class. It was simply sketches and quick mock-ups in MS Paint. The point of it was to be fast and easy to change.

 

[Daishiki]

i think he's looking for a company that can do rp for his company.

 

[RudeBoie]

Originally posted by: xUCIxDaiSHi
i think he's looking for a company that can do rp for his company.

Yeah.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Look on pdd.net

 

[RudeBoie]

Hmmm, I think their site is down. Thanks though.

 

[gopunk]

used it in my HCI capstone... sorry, don't know any firms

 

[shenaniganz]

Don't know how well it fits your applicatoin but I've used Quickparts.com. If you have 3D models you can upload them directly and get a quote in minutes. Also their sales reps seemed helpful. I never actually got parts from them just quotes--we decided not to get a rapid prototype of the part.