01Primary specialty
Mechanical Engineering
Our home department. Machines, mechanisms, structures and anything that has to physically hold together under load.
- CAD
- ANSYS
- Fabrication
- Welding
- Prototyping
- Machines
Final-year projects
are a hassle.
They don’t have to be.
From sourcing materials to CAD, simulation, fabrication and full project builds, we help turn difficult engineering projects into working prototypes.
Research.
Scope it properly
Design.
CAD & analysis
Build.
Fabricate & assemble
Test.
Prove it works
We get our hands dirty while you sit back and relax.
Working with students at
Lagos State University
Independent studio — not affiliated with or endorsed by the university.
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01Departments
Department-agnostic.
Mechanically obsessed.
We work across engineering departments, but the deepest bench is in mechanical and practical, hands-on builds.
02Capabilities
What we can
help you build.
Filter by what you are working on. If it has to be designed, fabricated, simulated, soldered, welded, assembled or tested, it belongs on this list.
37 capabilities
Mechanical
08Automated machines
Motorised units that replace a manual operation end to end.
Graters & milling units
Cassava, melon and grain processing units with driven cutting drums.
Presses
Hydraulic, screw and lever presses sized against a real load case.
Conveyors
Belt, roller and screw conveyors with drive and tensioning design.
Hydraulic & pneumatic systems
Cylinder sizing, circuit design and actuation for powered rigs.
Mechanisms & linkages
Four-bar, cam, rack-and-pinion and gear trains, motion-checked in CAD.
Material-handling systems
Trolleys, hoists, lifts and loaders designed around the load path.
Machine prototypes
First-off working units built to prove a concept physically.
Electrical
07Solar systems
Load audit, panel and battery sizing, charge control and wiring.
Power systems
Inverters, changeover units, protection and distribution boards.
Embedded electronics
Arduino, ESP32 and STM32 builds with sensors and drivers.
Control systems
Open and closed-loop control, PID tuning and instrumentation.
Circuit projects
Analogue and digital circuits, simulated then built and measured.
IoT devices
Connected sensing nodes with dashboards and remote logging.
PCB & soldering work
Schematic capture, board layout, assembly and rework.
AI / Software
05AI-powered devices
Physical products with a model doing the decision-making on board.
Computer vision
Detection, classification and inspection pipelines on real images.
Machine learning
Dataset preparation, training, evaluation and honest error analysis.
Automation software
Scripts, schedulers and interfaces that remove a manual loop.
Intelligent systems
Rule-based and learned systems wired into hardware and dashboards.
Robotics
05Robotic arms
Multi-axis arms: kinematics, structure, actuation and control.
Autonomous systems
Line-following, obstacle-avoiding and mapping platforms.
Sensor-based robots
Ultrasonic, IR, IMU and vision-driven behaviour.
Arduino / ESP32 projects
Microcontroller builds from breadboard to finished enclosure.
Mechatronic systems
Integrated mechanical, electrical and software subsystems.
CAD / Simulation
06SolidWorks / Fusion / AutoCAD
Parts, assemblies, drawings and manufacturing-ready documentation.
Mechanical modelling
Full 3D models with tolerances, fasteners and exploded views.
ANSYS analysis
Meshing, boundary conditions, solve and results interpretation.
CFD
Internal and external flow, pressure drop and velocity fields.
Structural analysis
Stress, deflection and factor-of-safety checks on your geometry.
Thermal analysis
Conduction, convection and steady-state or transient thermal runs.
Fabrication
06Welding
Arc and gas welding on mild steel, stainless and section work.
Metal fabrication
Cutting, bending, drilling and finishing to a drawing.
Prototyping
Fast first builds to find out what the drawing got wrong.
Assembly & machining
Turning, milling, fitting and final assembly of the unit.
Material sourcing
Finding the stock, sections and components locally, at real prices.
Testing & troubleshooting
Commissioning, measurement, fault-finding and iteration.
Complex engineering doesn’t scare us. If your project is not on this list, describe it anyway — we will tell you straight whether it is something we can take on.
Tell us about itCapability photography from Unsplash. Illustrative of the discipline — not photographs of our own work.
03How we work
Five steps from
brief to working unit.
No mystery, no drip-feeding. You know what happens at each stage and what you get at the end of it.
01
Tell us what you're building
Upload your brief or describe the project in your own words.
- Project brief
- Supervisor requirements
- Deadline
02
We break it down
We identify components, materials, engineering requirements and the parts most likely to give trouble.
- Bill of materials
- Engineering scope
- Risk list
03
Get an estimate
A preliminary estimate covering materials, workmanship and timeline — so you know what you are walking into.
- Materials
- Workmanship
- Timeline
04
We build
Design, simulation, fabrication, assembly and testing. This is the part that gets our hands dirty.
- CAD & analysis
- Fabrication
- Assembly & testing
05
You receive the result
A functional project or prototype, the technical documentation behind it, and support while you present it.
- Working unit
- Drawings & data
- Handover support
04AI estimator
Don’t know what your
project will cost?
Upload your project brief and we'll break it down into the materials, engineering work and time required to bring it to life.
Drop your project brief
PDF or DOCX · max 8 MB
One free estimate per visitor. Your brief is used for this analysis only.
05Sample projects
Sample works.
A sample of the kind of work the bench is set up for — the discipline, what would be made, and what it would take.
- Sample 01Renewable energy
Standalone solar power bench
A load-audited solar bench with panel array, charge controller, battery bank and a metered distribution board for laboratory demonstration.
- Load audit
- Panel sizing
- Wiring
- Metering
- Discipline
- Electrical
- Typical build time
- 5 weeks
- Deliverable
- Working rig + data
- Sample 02Automated machine
Motorised cassava grating unit
Driven grating drum, welded mild-steel frame, guarded belt drive and a hopper sized to a target throughput.
- Welding
- Drive design
- Fabrication
- Testing
- Discipline
- Mechanical
- Typical build time
- 6 weeks
- Deliverable
- Functional machine
- Sample 03CAD & simulation
Structural analysis of a lifting frame
Full parametric model, static structural study in ANSYS, mesh convergence check and a factor-of-safety report against the design load.
- SolidWorks
- ANSYS
- Meshing
- Reporting
- Discipline
- Mechanical
- Typical build time
- 2 weeks
- Deliverable
- Model + analysis report
- Sample 04Robotics
4-axis pick-and-place arm
Servo-driven arm with 3D-printed links, inverse-kinematics firmware and a repeatability test across a fixed pick grid.
- Kinematics
- Firmware
- 3D printing
- Control
- Discipline
- Mechatronics
- Typical build time
- 5 weeks
- Deliverable
- Working prototype
- Sample 05AI-powered device
Vision-based sorting station
Camera module, on-device classifier and a solenoid diverter, with a labelled dataset and a confusion matrix to evaluate it.
- Computer vision
- Embedded
- Actuation
- Evaluation
- Discipline
- Computer / Mechatronics
- Typical build time
- 6 weeks
- Deliverable
- Device + dataset
- Sample 06Fabrication
Hydraulic bench press frame
Welded box-section frame with a bottle jack actuator, bolted platen and a deflection check under rated load.
- Welding
- Frame design
- Load testing
- Finishing
- Discipline
- Mechanical
- Typical build time
- 3 weeks
- Deliverable
- Fabricated unit
These are worked examples of what each project would involve, not completed jobs — the studio is new and has no build history yet. Real project records will replace them as builds are finished.
06About the engineer
Who you’ll be
working with
I don’t just design projects on paper. I build, test, troubleshoot and iterate.
My work sits on the practical side of engineering — mechanical design and analysis carried through to a unit that runs. That means CAD and simulation when the geometry has to be right, fabrication and welding when it has to be made, and electronics, firmware or a model when it has to think for itself.
Working with students is a collaboration: you keep ownership of your project and your submission, and you get an engineer beside you on the design, the fabrication and the testing.
Capability index11
- 01CAD
- 02ANSYS
- 03Mechanical design
- 04Fabrication
- 05Welding
- 06Prototyping
- 07Robotics
- 08Electronics
- 09Solar systems
- 10AI-powered engineering projects
- 11Full-stack web development
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