Our team has over 35 years combined experience dating back to the Robotics Club at the University of Central Florida. We bonded over hard work and shared passion during long nights and weekends in the lab. We worked on a variety of autonomous vehicles for entry in land, underwater, surface, and aerial competitions. All of us contributed to UCF’s entry to the DARPA Grand Challenge. After graduating, we gathered valuable experience in hands-on engineering, research methods, design for manufacture, and production. Much of this work was funded by various government agencies through BAA, SBIR and STTR programs, sometimes requiring clearance. In January of 2016, a long term plan came to fulfillment and Alpha Proto opened its doors!
Alpha Proto is an experienced manufacturing company based in Casselberry, Florida. They operate the FDM machine and offer to print in PLA. Our test item was printed in Dark Gray filament within a day. The model came out well: the surface itself is accurate and clean, all the small details look as expected. The dimensions of the part are correct, too.
