Welcome
Protoworks helps businesses design, build, and improve practical software, embedded systems, and custom hardware solutions.
Based in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, Protoworks provides hands-on technical delivery for SMEs, product builders, and organisations that need reliable engineering support without the overhead of building a full in-house development team.
Whether you need a custom internal tool, a modernised legacy system, a prototype electronic device, a specialist control panel, or firmware for an embedded product, Protoworks can help take the idea from concept through to a working solution.
How Protoworks Helps
Protoworks works best where software meets the real world.
That might mean stabilising an existing business system, connecting fragmented tools, automating repetitive work, designing a custom interface board, building an embedded device, or developing a proof-of-concept product before committing to full production.
Work can be delivered on a flexible pay-as-you-go basis for evolving projects, or as a fixed-price project where the scope and deliverables are clearly defined.
Development Services
Protoworks offers the following development services.
🛠️ Custom Electronics & Hardware Prototyping
PCB design, schematic capture, component selection, prototype support, and bench validation for practical hardware projects.
Ideal for custom interface boards, test fixtures, control panels, sensor modules, communications boards, and early-stage product prototypes.
💻 Embedded Software & Firmware Development
Firmware and embedded software for microcontrollers, connected devices, and Linux-based embedded systems.
Typical work includes STM32, ESP32, RP2040, Raspberry Pi, serial communications, RS485, device control, data acquisition, and hardware/software integration.
🎛️ Custom Control Panels & Interfaces
Design and development of bespoke operator interfaces, USB HID devices, keypads, button panels, status displays, and specialist human-machine interfaces.
Useful for industrial equipment, workshop tools, test rigs, accessibility devices, kiosks, and custom business hardware.
🌐 Custom Software Development
Bespoke internal tools, web applications, APIs, desktop software, dashboards, and business systems tailored to how your organisation actually works.
⚙️ System Stabilisation & Modernisation
Practical help with fragile legacy systems, technical debt, unreliable platforms, old business-critical code, and systems that need to be made safer, cleaner, and easier to maintain.
🔄 Workflow Automation & Integration
Connecting systems, reducing manual admin, and streamlining everyday business processes using software, low-code tools, APIs, scripts, and AI where it genuinely adds value.
Reusable Engineering Assets
Protoworks maintains a growing set of reusable software and hardware assets developed through real engineering work. These assets demonstrate the practical Protoworks approach and can often be adapted to accelerate customer projects.
Prototype Building Block Boards
A catalogue of open-source, repeatable utility PCBs designed to simplify bench testing and hardware prototyping. From USB-C power entry to shift-register I/O expanders, view fully-documented engineering tools.
Reusable software and technical assets
Explore examples of reusable software, developer tools, and embedded projects that demonstrate the practical Protoworks development approach.
Interactive Demos
Explore live technical demos that show the Protoworks approach to practical software and engineering tools.
View Success Stories
Protoworks has worked with a range of clients to solve a variety of problems. View case studies below.
Ready To Get Started?
A friendly consultation is always welcome. Please feel free to get in touch by phone on Loading phone... or by email at Loading email....
Welcome
Protoworks helps businesses design, build, and improve practical software, embedded systems, and custom hardware solutions.
Based in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, Protoworks provides hands-on technical delivery for SMEs, product builders, and organisations that need reliable engineering support without the overhead of building a full in-house development team.
Whether you need a custom internal tool, a modernised legacy system, a prototype electronic device, a specialist control panel, or firmware for an embedded product, Protoworks can help take the idea from concept through to a working solution.
How Protoworks Helps
Protoworks works best where software meets the real world.
That might mean stabilising an existing business system, connecting fragmented tools, automating repetitive work, designing a custom interface board, building an embedded device, or developing a proof-of-concept product before committing to full production.
Work can be delivered on a flexible pay-as-you-go basis for evolving projects, or as a fixed-price project where the scope and deliverables are clearly defined.
Development Services
Protoworks offers the following development services.
🛠️ Custom Electronics & Hardware Prototyping
PCB design, schematic capture, component selection, prototype support, and bench validation for practical hardware projects.
Ideal for custom interface boards, test fixtures, control panels, sensor modules, communications boards, and early-stage product prototypes.
💻 Embedded Software & Firmware Development
Firmware and embedded software for microcontrollers, connected devices, and Linux-based embedded systems.
Typical work includes STM32, ESP32, RP2040, Raspberry Pi, serial communications, RS485, device control, data acquisition, and hardware/software integration.
🎛️ Custom Control Panels & Interfaces
Design and development of bespoke operator interfaces, USB HID devices, keypads, button panels, status displays, and specialist human-machine interfaces.
Useful for industrial equipment, workshop tools, test rigs, accessibility devices, kiosks, and custom business hardware.
🌐 Custom Software Development
Bespoke internal tools, web applications, APIs, desktop software, dashboards, and business systems tailored to how your organisation actually works.
⚙️ System Stabilisation & Modernisation
Practical help with fragile legacy systems, technical debt, unreliable platforms, old business-critical code, and systems that need to be made safer, cleaner, and easier to maintain.
🔄 Workflow Automation & Integration
Connecting systems, reducing manual admin, and streamlining everyday business processes using software, low-code tools, APIs, scripts, and AI where it genuinely adds value.
Reusable Engineering Assets
Protoworks maintains a growing set of reusable software and hardware assets developed through real engineering work. These assets demonstrate the practical Protoworks approach and can often be adapted to accelerate customer projects.
Prototype Building Block Boards
A catalogue of open-source, repeatable utility PCBs designed to simplify bench testing and hardware prototyping. From USB-C power entry to shift-register I/O expanders, view fully-documented engineering tools.
Reusable software and technical assets
Explore examples of reusable software, developer tools, and embedded projects that demonstrate the practical Protoworks development approach.
Interactive Demos
Explore live technical demos that show the Protoworks approach to practical software and engineering tools.
View Success Stories
Protoworks has worked with a range of clients to solve a variety of problems. View case studies below.
Ready To Get Started?
A friendly consultation is always welcome. Please feel free to get in touch by phone on Loading phone... or by email at Loading email....