Special Projects
Prototyping the tools of tomorrow
From drone kits to custom sensors, Special Projects delivers bespoke research, development and hardware across cyber, RF and emerging technologies, taking ideas from early concept through to working prototype, and building the capability around them.
The Challenge
Great ideas often stall on the way to reality
Innovative concepts in cyber and electronic systems frequently stall, not because the idea is wrong, but because turning it into something real needs a rare blend of research, engineering and hands-on prototyping skill.
That capability is hard to find, expensive to maintain in-house, and easy to under-resource. So promising ideas sit on the shelf, and the advantage they could have delivered slips away to someone who could build it first.
Our Solution
From concept to working build
We provide the research, development and bespoke hardware to move ideas forward across RF, wireless, cyber-physical and emerging technologies, from a defined brief or an early-stage spark.
Drone Kits
Build-and-fly drone kits that make engineering, electronics and cyber-physical systems tangible. Learners assemble the hardware, adapt the code and fly it, turning abstract STEM and cyber concepts into something they can hold, build and genuinely understand, while opening clear routes into engineering and technology careers.
- Hands-on build & flight
- STEM & cyber made tangible
Sensors
Bespoke sensing and detection builds, from counter-UAS concepts that detect and track unmanned systems to custom RF and signal-analysis platforms. We take an emerging-threat problem and prototype a practical, testable response rather than leaving it at the whiteboard stage.
- Detection & counter-UAS
- RF & signal analysis
Your R&D project
Bring us a defined brief or even just an early idea, and we'll help research, design and prototype it. We provide the engineering capability you'd otherwise struggle to find or resource in-house, and stay with it from concept to working build.
- From idea to prototype
- Capability you can borrow
The Payoff
Our capabilities
Behind the headline projects sits a broad, practical engineering capability you can draw on.
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RF and wireless
Software-defined radio, signal analysis and spectrum-awareness development.
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Custom hardware
Bespoke electronic systems, embedded device builds and integration.
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Emerging technology
Digital twins, data analytics and structured evaluation of new technologies.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions, answered
What do Special Projects cover?
Special Projects deliver bespoke research, development and hardware across cyber, RF, wireless, cyber-physical and emerging technologies, taking ideas from early concept through to working prototype. Recent examples include hands-on drone kits, custom sensors and counter-UAS concepts. It exists because promising concepts often stall, not because the idea is wrong, but because turning it into something real needs a rare blend of research, engineering and hands-on prototyping skill. We provide that capability, and help build it around you, so good ideas don't simply sit on the shelf.
Can you take a concept through to a working prototype?
Yes. Whether you bring a fully defined brief or an early-stage spark, we help research, design and build it, along with the underlying capability to take it forward. We work from concept to working build, scoping the project with you so the direction and effort are clear up front. The goal is a tangible result you can use and develop, not just a feasibility report.
What areas do you cover?
We cover hands-on drone kits, custom sensors, software-defined radio and signal analysis, custom hardware and embedded systems, counter-UAS concepts, and the structured evaluation of emerging technologies. These are areas that are increasingly important and notoriously hard to practise safely, which is exactly where we focus, so teams get a safe, capable way to explore them hands-on.