Project Grants

Some technical ideas fail early for reasons unrelated to quality — lack of time, funding, or access.

Project grants exist to remove those constraints long enough to see what an idea actually reveals.

They are a way to explore real problems through execution, not presentation.

A project grant is:

• a small amount of funding
• a clearly scoped technical question
• a fixed time window
• light collaboration and review

The work is treated as real. The outcome matters.

We're interested in ideas that:

• surface unknown constraints
• touch irreducible problems
• expose failure modes
• require judgment rather than scale
• cross hardware, software, or materials in non-obvious ways

Polish is optional. Clarity of thought is not.

Some grants end with a short write-up. Some continue further. Some turn into longer-term collaboration.

There is no assumed path, and no obligation on either side.

If you're interested, submit:

• a brief description of the idea
• what problem it's trying to expose
• what you would attempt to build
• what constraints you're currently missing