How It Began
Devtank began in 2014 as a consultancy and design house, building bespoke solutions for businesses globally. Founders Joe Burmeister and Tim Telford started the business after caving conversations lead to putting their expertise of software and hardware together, building solutions from the garage.
The First Solutions
With previous industry expertise and experience, we saw a need for cost effective, robust, and flexable solutions within manufacturing and development testing.
JMA Wireless
One of our first customers was a company named JMA Wireless based in the USA. They were in need of a robust and userfiendly test system for their production line and although being just Tim and Joe at the time, they designed and manufactured the perfect solution.
Open Source From The Start
Utilising their industry expertise, they knew a major lump with production testing was the fact that the majority of solutions on the market required costly license fees and training in order to be usable. Their solution to this problem was to make a new solution which was modular, user-friendly, and open source.
The Benefits
Being open source meant no license fees, no specilised training or software, and full flexability to make it do what you need. The modular build made it easier to maintain and adjust to changing requirements. The use of open software languages, like Python, enabled users to write their own test scripts with ease.
Raspberry Pi
Another component to our solution which has stuck with us since the very beginning has been our relationship with Raspberry Pi!
