Our Work

We pride ourselves in following the projects from conception to completion and into adaptation. Our team brings extensive experience across all stages of development, from initial drafts, design, and technical documentation to prototyping, mechanical and functional testing, and ultimately, final assembly and production.

The featured projects include overall experience of our team and also include jobs done for commission contracts by our team before starting UpProto.

01

GraviTE

Gravity Free Tissue Engineering is a bioreactor project designed for operation aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The main challenges of this design involved ensuring biocompatibility with cell cultures and achieving sufficient mechanical robustness to withstand transport and rocket launch conditions. An additional requirement was maintaining a low mass and a compact form factor within a 10 × 10 × 20 cm volume constraint.

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Cell Culture chambers

In order to keep cell culture alive a complex set of conditions has to be met. During this project our team has created over 20 models and 7 fully functional prototypes of chambers for cell culture growth.

An additional difficulty of this design was that biology team we designed it for required the culture chamber to have changing, adaptable volume that was achieved by making one of the walls out of an elastic membrane.

03

Cleaning rod for rifles

In sport shooting with .22LR precision rifles, proper barrel maintenance is vital. Traditional metal cleaning rods risk scratching the barrel, especially when fixed to the handle. Using a carbon fiber tube mounted on ball bearings in the handle eliminates this issue.

Barrels should be cleaned only in the bullet’s travel direction, but brushes screwed onto rods make the process slow. A quick-release system enables faster, more efficient cleaning and tool changes.

02

MAX IV beamline sample holder

For the ForMAX synchrotron beamline experiment, a dedicated adapter was designed to enable the convenient replacement of numerous miniature samples (1 × 1 × 1 mm) while avoiding any negative optical effects from the beam. The adapter is also easy to assemble on-site. Its primary function is to securely position delicate samples within the beam’s field of view and to incorporate a connection for a humidifier, which acts as a climate chamber to control experimental conditions.

05

Custom camera holder for inside monitoring of a metal 3D printer

Design, material selection, and assembly of a custom camera holder with an integrated internal cooling mechanism.

The main challenge was to create a stable support structure for the camera while protecting it from harsh environments, including exposure to temperatures up to 150°C. The design also required chemical resistance to organic solvents, a non-reflective finish, and electrostatic discharge (ESD) safety.