Why I'm building a fab small enough to sit on your desk.

Before PrometheusPCB existed, I'd already decided I wanted to build a company. I'd launched products on my own and validated a consumer startup with real customers in the field. What I was missing was a problem worth years of my life: hard enough to be worth doing, and close enough to something I actually understood to be worth doing by me.

I also knew what kind of company. Something physical and hard, where the moat is process and materials rather than a thin software layer, and where a small team can move faster than an incumbent's committee. The gap between how fast you can think and how slowly you can hold a finished board in your hand is exactly that kind of problem. PrometheusPCB is the commitment.

PrometheusPCB ran as a two-person company for part of the summer before going back to a solo effort at the end of July, when the deposition and process scope came back to me. That change is written up in the build log along with everything else, because a log that only records the good weeks isn't worth keeping. What the log also shows is that the pace held: a supplier signed, custom silver in manufacture, a motion platform assembled on the bench, first fired parts measured with calipers.

PrometheusPCB is early and moving fast. Texas Tech's Innovation Hub and an NSF I-Corps grant gave me the room to chase this now instead of someday. I'm past the literature phase, heads-down building the first functional prototype and talking to the hardware teams and labs who'd use it.

The seat I'm looking to fill is deep ceramic materials: ceramic processing, paste rheology, constrained sintering. If the co-fire shrinkage problem reads as a challenge rather than a dealbreaker, or you just want a ceramic fab on your bench someday, let's talk.