carnation — the device constructor

carnation is our product line: a configurable device platform built around one ESP32-C6 board whose hardware personality — light channels, fans, encoder controls, USB-PD bus voltage — is composed rather than hard-coded, then flashed and recorded per unit. The device constructor lives inside our ERP, so every board carries a serial number with its full history: what firmware was written to it, by whom, when, and the verbatim report of every functional test it passed.

It is how we intend to build hardware at small volume without losing traceability: a new variant is a new configuration and a bill of materials, not a new production process. The same discipline backs the custom electronics work we take on outside our own lines — schematic and PCB design, firmware, bring-up and small-batch manufacturing with per-unit traceability.