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From healthcare and wellbeing to education and the environment, we’ve been missing out on a world of digital devices that can improve people’s lives. That’s why we’re on a mission to make digital device production easier and more accessible for all.

Our Funded Projects

Replicability

These projects seek to overcome barriers to isotyping, or the process of replicating digital devices for testing or production purposes.

Infrastructure for Device production

These projects demonstrate how infrastructure beyond traditional manufacturing can provide solutions to refining and scaling device prototypes.

Our Events

Theme Two:

Device Prototyping and Production Summer School

10-12 July 2024
Lancaster University

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Theme One:

Exploring the Challenges of Prototyping Interactive Devices with Emerging Technologies and Materials

5 February 2024
online

pro² Launch

27 March 2023
Bristol

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Our Members

We wouldn’t be a network without the diverse community of academics, industry partners, makers and more that make up the pro² membership base. Learn more about them in the interviews below and find out how they are contributing to the movement to democratise digital device production.

Bringing Together Robotics and the Arts

Emma Powell of Air GiantsDevice Prototyping and Production Summer School

The Future of Health Tech

Tim Banks of Kinneir Dufort

From Device Prototype to Product

Mark Fitzpatrick of Fitzpatrick’s UK

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Our Publications

Citizen Manufacturing

We have all come to expect—if not depend upon—the steady march of technology. All manner of pervasive computing devices, applications, and services increasingly support us at home and work.