// AN EXPERIMENTAL ENGINEERING LAB
We find out what’s possible now.
AI, cheap compute, commodity hardware, and modern software have changed the economics of engineering.
Moonshine Labs explores what one person or a small team can build when you stop assuming yesterday’s constraints still apply.
// Experiments
- PCB CAD, Rebuilt for Touch “What if professional PCB design actually belonged on an iPad?” Direct manipulation, Pencil, deterministic geometry, intelligent routing, AI-assisted engineering — not desktop CAD squeezed onto a tablet.
- Backbone “What if the computers you already own could become one AI machine?” Distributed inference across heterogeneous hardware. Macs, GPUs, old machines, phones — whatever compute is around becomes part of a larger system.
- Chaos Monkeys “What if your QA department was software?” Autonomous specialist AI agents that hunt UI problems, API failures, regressions, edge cases, security issues, and chaos conditions.
- SIDELOBE “How much field computer can you build from commodity hardware?” A custom handheld field computer built from inexpensive microcontrollers, radios, sensors, displays, and modular hardware.
- Currently Doing Something Inadvisable No further information.
// Thesis
The minimum viable organization is shrinking.
Ambitious engineering used to require organizations, because organizations were how you aggregated specialized knowledge, labor, capital, and infrastructure. Those constraints are collapsing — and the only honest way to find the new boundary is to build things and push on it.
// Work with us
Got an unreasonable problem?
Good. Those are usually the interesting ones.
If you’re trying to build something that crosses disciplines, seems economically impractical, requires an unusual prototype, or simply doesn’t fit neatly inside someone’s job description — tell us about it.