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"You can come up with many ideas, but not everything is feasible"

''Spark can bring together different disciplines, making it a complete product.''

How to successfully grow a hardware startup?

Laszlo and Sanja on their internship at Spark

Tarnoc's turbine heat pump: a balance between technology and a natural, sustainable look.

Optimize cost and manufacturability of your product.

From clinic to creativity: An internship at Spark

Yorick Meijdam started in January as an industrial design engineer at Spark. Let us introduce him to you!

An user-friendly, scalable, robust design that radiates Yanga's new brand identity.

When a product contains electronics, effective thermal management is essential. Not only for safety, but also to extend the lifespan of LEDs or batteries, and to ensure other electronic components stay within their specified limits. Every product that generates heat requires a thermal management strategy. It’s important to integrate this aspect.

Designing robots is more than aesthetics, it shapes how they’re perceived, trusted, and accepted by users. To create robots that fit their context and enhance acceptance, it’s essential to understand what influences trust and comfort.

So, you’ve built a prototype using an Arduino, a Raspberry Pi, and a generous amount of duct tape. It works (most of the time), impresses stakeholders, and even makes investors nod approvingly. But now, reality kicks in—how do you scale this into a reliable, production-ready electronic system?

Start-ups operate in a world of rapid changes and constant challenges. Developing an innovative product, effectively positioning a brand, and attracting the right investors require not only time but also specialized knowledge and experience.

With 2025 already underway, it's time to explore the major developments and design trends that we see are set to shape the future of professional products. These trends are not short-lived but come from long-term changes and will stay relevant well beyond 2025, adapting in new and exciting ways.

Strength and stiffness calculations are a powerful tool in product development. They are not only part of the process to achieve the best design, but also a validation tool for product certifications.

Prototyping is an essential part of the design process. Yet we often see some common mistakes being made that can be easily avoided. Here are five mistakes we'd like to share with you.

Are you involved in new product development? How do you ensure your requirements set you up for success? We have learned to avoid common pitfalls. So when writing requirements, these are 6 mistakes to avoid.

One year ago, Spark's quality system has been recognized with ISO 13485:2016 certification, the standard for Quality Management for medical devices. Recently, we passed our intermediate inspection with flying colors, confirming that we are on the right track. Here are five key insights from our journey: