About Bare Metal Technologies

I am an engineering contractor in the field of electronics and embedded systems. But I was originally a tradesman, a machinist. I have kept my machining skills alive throughout my career and operated various shops even while working at my day job in high tech companies as well as working for two National Laboratories. The Cartesian Display idea came to me in the 1970's as a kid in trade school. But it would be decades before I had the skills to do anything about it. Other companies around the world have, at least, hinted at this idea but they have all missed the point. My combination of skills in machining, electronics and computer programming put me unique position to develop this idea.

The project began in 2017 when I was working under contract on a project that had a similar combination of ingredients: a DSP with Quadrature inputs and a high resolution LCD. The Cartesian Display idea popped back into my head -and I had not thought about it in 10 years.

Incredibly, something very similar to this idea was patented and developed by a company in Ohio many years ago. But the patent was expired, one of the inventors had died, and the surviving inventor decided to drop the project even though it was developed close to the point of marketability. I have since become pen pals with that gentleman and he is highly impressed with my invention even though in some respects it is quite different from his idea.

By the end of 2018 I had developed a prototype and a machine simulator; but I had gone as far as I could in the Lab and now I only needed a real machine on which to prove it out. In October of 2019 I opened a small shop and obtained a knee mill and began cutting parts. I even made many parts for paying customers. Over the next 4 years I continued to develop the Cartesian Display and in that time I also introduced the integrated Rotary Table also. The Electronic Rotary Table is also a stand-alone product in its own right.

What Bare Metal Technologies is not

It is one thing to dream up a device like the Cartesian Display. It is quite another to bring a complex electronic and software system like this to market.

I spent a couple years attempting to partner with a few different electronics companies around the world; some in the actual business of things like DRO's.

No takers.

At this time, I am still open to the possibilities. But until that happens, I am on my own. Thus, in full disclosure, the Cartesian Display, related devices and Software systems, are all hand made by no more than three people and various other suppliers. These are not finished/polished/certified products put out by some big electronics company.

Unlike a lot of poser companies on the internet and in the magazines, I have been careful in my writing when describing my ideas and products not to use words like "we" as if to imply this is some big company. Instead I try to use "I" to imply that I am doing this largely alone. I am simply an electronics/software developer with a lot of experience in machining trying to make a living by offering electronics and software solutions to the metalworking field.

Bare Metal Technologies

Electronics and Software Systems for Machining

About Bare Metal Technologies