4 posts tagged with "Hardware"

By March 2026, Kamoji's inner structural frame was more or less settled. The next problem was one nobody on the team had any experience with at all: industrial design.

Late April 2026 was the sprint to launch: colorways settled, a manufacturing run underway, and a first real look at what it takes to turn a finished design into a physical product at scale.

Before a single line of firmware was written, we had a decade of building our own smart home and smart office automation at Originally US behind us — custom hardware, our own firmware, none of it off the shelf. Kamoji is where that experience pointed next: an in-car companion that could feel the road and react to it.

The first task wasn't building a prototype. It was picking a screen.

By November 2023, the project had a name on the PCB silkscreen: "Kamoji prototype v1 p0", crafted by Originally US. What followed was ten PCB revisions, one deliberately reversed decision, and a set of component choices aimed less at us and more at whoever wants to build on this board after we're done with it.