An interactive exhibit or display piece, built from your idea.
Anvol's engineers build one interactive piece from your sketch or reference: sensors, lights, sound, a screen, firmware and the enclosure. Our LED pixel board was about $1,700 to develop including 10 prototype sets, in about 10 days (reference figures). We have not yet delivered a commissioned museum exhibit; the closest builds are below. There is no minimum order. You pay in USD to our US entity.
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What you can send
- An idea, a sketch or reference photos
- Where the piece will stand, who will use it and for how many hours a day
- A demo that already runs on a development board
- A date it has to be ready, such as an opening
The closest builds
LED pixel board
LED matrix with a browser editor and AI-made animations. About $1,700 including 10 prototype sets, about 10 days.
Desk AI companion
A character on a desk that shows live status on its screen. About $2,000, about 15 days.
Voice-controlled quadruped
Designed for education, prototyping and interactive displays. $5,000, 20 days.
What it costs
You pay a one-time development fee, then a price per unit if you need more than one. Our engineers' reference range for development is about $500 to $3,000 for a simple small device and about $3,000 to $10,000 for a multi-board piece. Totals exclude certification (quoted separately) and shipping. Reference figures, not fixed prices; you get a written price before any work starts. What a prototype budget buys →
What a public piece has to handle
- Visitors who never read instructions
- One press or tap should do one thing, and the piece should show what it is doing.
- People who stop moving
- A motion sensor alone cannot tell that someone is still standing there.
- Long days nobody watches
- Plan how it recovers from a freeze without someone on site.
Engineering notes from our interactive builds
- Wake a display when someone walks up, without mistaking motion for presence
- Will your interactive display notice someone who stops moving?
- Building a touchless music exhibit: what should happen when the hand moves away?
- Tap a card, start a story: making NFC feel predictable in a prototype
- One button press, one action: keeping a hardware prototype responsive
- How to make an interactive prototype play the right audio clip
- If your prototype freezes on site, what will bring it back?
Who does the work
- Zisheng Li, engineering lead
- Embedded systems. 20+ hardware products built. Named inventor on 8 granted patents.
- Where it is built
- Electronics benches where our engineers build and debug, and the machining, board and assembly lines we order from. You see each process, not the factory's name. Factories →
How it starts
- Send what you have through the project form, by email or on WhatsApp.
- If you ask, we send the NDA first. We sign it before we open any file.
- We reply within 12 hours, list what is missing and suggest the next build step.
- You get a written scope with price and date before any work starts. Major scope changes are re-quoted before work continues.
Questions
Not as a delivered commission. The closest builds are the LED pixel board, the desk AI companion and the voice-controlled quadruped above. Tell us where the piece will stand and who will use it, and we list what that changes in the written scope.
First units are usually 3D printed or CNC machined. The partner lines we order from include CNC machining and injection molding. Say what finish you need in the first message so it is priced in the scope.
Yes. There is no minimum order. One piece is a normal start, and a small batch can follow after you approve it.
You do. We sign an NDA before we open any file. The project-specific design files, drawings and tooling belong to you; our general tools and libraries stay ours.
Show us the piece you want built.
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