Thirteen years of running a hardware company, available to a small number of founders and teams each year.
For people building hardware companies, usually early, usually overstretched.
Monthly, small cohort. Ask about availability.
For teams who need additive manufacturing to survive contact with production.
Project or retainer. Limited slots.
I would rather say no than do it badly, so there is usually a wait.
I run Fracktal Works. This year I also took on a technical consulting role with Constellation Aerospace, a nanosatellite startup here in Bengaluru, which is roughly the shape of this work: somebody else's hard hardware problem, a few days a month. Advisory is the part of the week I protect for it, not a second business, which is why the numbers are small and the answer is sometimes no.
What I am useful for is the gap between a thing that works on your bench and a thing you can make two hundred of. That gap has eaten more hardware companies than any competitor ever has, and I have been across it a few times now.
What I am not useful for: fundraising theatre, deck polishing, or convincing a board that 3D printing will fix something it will not fix.
Everything below is a thing I have actually had to do, not a thing I have read about.