Sherpa - Work

Developing a Haptic Device for the Stanford Chariot Program

Developing a haptic device to ease needle phobia in children, enhancing comfort during medical procedures through innovative design and technology.

Carbon 3D printed and machined Toroid Ring

Post Machining Carbon 3D printed parts for underwater AUV

MBARI collaborates with Sherpa to create a robust, watertight fluid manifold using advanced 3D printing and CNC machining for aquatic research.

Designing a Portable RF Absorbing Wall for Aircraft Radar Testing

Rohde & Schwarz engaged Sherpa to design and build a wall structure that was 60 feet long and 20 feet high for absorbing microwave testing outdoors.

Product development for a Planar touchscreen display

Planar Custom Products Group, came to Sherpa to help build a touch screen control interface for industrial equipment on oil derricks.

Branding and reducing Manufacturing Costs for Metrology Systems

Sherpa created branding and reduced the cost of manufacturing and assembly of the sheet metal parts for a Nanometrics new product line in metrology.

Partnering with JamHub on the Stage

Sherpa completed engineering modeling design work for musical equipment maker, JamHub. View the case study.

Designing a 12-bottle formed fiber wine case

Designing formed fiber packaging for a wine case that can survive a drop test and the vacuum form tooling and related wire form dies to manufacture them.

Designing the Perfect coffee filter

Sherpa was tasked with consumer product design for a coffee filter basket that will work as a reusable filter in 80% of the coffee makers on the market.

Designing and Manufacturing Cyclocross Shifter Brackets

Case Study: High Precision CNC Machining for Gevenalle. How Sherpa designed shifter brackets for cyclocross bike company.

Max-Viz Infrared Camera for Enhanced Vision Systems

Max-Viz turned to Sherpa Design to engineer an Enhanced Vision System using a thermal camera design with their custom technology for the aviation industry.

Small-batch, 3D-printed headset replacement parts

Utilizing Carbon 3D printing, we reverse-engineered a headset yoke for durability and set KC Headsets up for small-batch in-house production.

Reimagined power supply subsystem design with Carbon DLS

Sherpa reimagined a power supply subsystem design for a market leader utilizing additive manufacturing with Carbon DLS technology.

Smartphone Accessory Thermal Camera

Our designers and engineers worked with SEEK to develop a smartphone accessory thermal camera that set the foundation for an expanded range.

Test Equipment Pre-Amplifier Case

Our team designed these pre-amplifier cases to represent an iconic brand and adapt to multiple configurations years ago. We're still manufacturing them.

Product Innovations and Complex Prototypes

Partnering with Smith Optics to design I/O MAG goggles lens interface in an XL size to accommodate people wearing glasses, we utilized Carbon 3D printing.

WiFi Parental Control Device

Elameno approached Sherpa to design and prototype a new WiFi parental control device that went on to become Circle by Disney.

Carbon printed semiconductor cable management parts

Fire retardant additive manufactured parts for Semiconductor

Sherpa utilized Carbon’s EPX 86FR resin to create flame-retardant, easy-to-clean parts for the semiconductor clean rooms.

3D PRINTING IN SHOE MANUFACTURING

Innovative process for designing and manufacturing a custom composite cycling shoe using Carbon 3D printing.

Building Rodin Cars Digital Engineering Backbone

Rodin Cars partners with Sherpa Design to implement Teamcenter, enhancing engineering efficiency and traceability for high-performance race car production.