The inteRFace R&D Family: R&D Services, Tech Education, and Software for Hardware

If you've only run into one part of inteRFace R&D, you've met about a third of it. Under one roof, and largely one small engineering team, inteRFace R&D runs three connected pillars: a product-development consultancy, two tech-education brands aimed at different audiences, and a no-code hardware-control platform. None of them is a side hustle — each one solves a real problem the others create.

Pillar one: R&D services

inteRFace R&D is the core of the business: a Silicon Valley engineering firm doing PCB design, embedded systems, industrial design, rapid prototyping, and full-cycle manufacturing support for startups and companies building physical products. Engagements run senior-engineer-only, IP and equity stay with the client, and every project starts under a mutual NDA. This is the paying business — the other two pillars exist because of it, not instead of it.

Pillar two: Tech Education

inteRFace R&D runs two separate education brands, aimed at two different audiences, both built on the belief that real skill comes from building, not watching a demo.

Embedded Academy — for working engineers

Embedded Academy is a recorded-course library in embedded Linux, STM32 driver development, bare-metal C, and ESP32 IoT, taught by engineers who ship, priced as recordings of live cohort-based courses. Full details are in the Embedded Academy deep dive.

CHIPS — for kids

CHIPS is inteRFace R&D's hands-on STEM program for kids, running the same Build → Test → Fix → Improve loop used on real client hardware, across tracks like Circuit, Lightup, Maker, and Neural. Read why an R&D firm teaches kids to build and what's actually inside the CHIPS curriculum.

Pillar three: Software for Hardware

ArduinoStudio is inteRFace R&D's AI-powered, all-in-one project creator for real Arduino hardware — describe what you want to build, and it generates the Logic, the App, and the Wiring together, no IDE and no installs. A dedicated classroom build, chips.arduinostudio.com, powers the hands-on hardware sessions inside CHIPS itself, letting a student join with just a class code and a first name. The full breakdown is in the ArduinoStudio product overview.

Why one team runs all three

The three pillars aren't unrelated side projects — each one feeds the next. Embedded Academy and CHIPS train the engineers and future engineers who eventually do the kind of work inteRFace R&D bills for. ArduinoStudio removes the tooling friction that keeps both a kid in a CHIPS class and a professional engineer in an Embedded Academy workshop from getting straight to real hardware. And R&D services is where all of it gets applied at full scale, on someone else's product, under a deadline. Running all three under one team means the person teaching the course, writing the curriculum, or shipping the tool is the same person still doing the client work — not a separate marketing or education division that stopped shipping years ago.

Where to go next

• Need a product built — PCB, firmware, mechanical, or all three? Start at inteRFace R&D.
• Want to go deeper on embedded Linux, STM32, or ESP32? Browse the catalog at Embedded Academy.
• Have a kid who wants to build real hardware, not watch a demo? See CHIPS.
• Want to control Arduino hardware from a browser, no code? Try ArduinoStudio free.