Gravitech Thai is an alliance of Gravitech USA, based in Nevada, USA and founded by Dr.Sharnon Tulabadi, a Thai engineer. The company works on researching, designing and manufacturing printed circuit boards (PCB) focusing on sensor module, microcontroller, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) as well as electronic tools for makers. Due to the exponential demand of our DIY electronic components, we expanded the production and design base to Thailand in order to work closer to Thai researchers, makers and clients in the region.
“I went to study in the US when I was 15 after I graduated from Assumption College Bangrak. Right after I got my master in Electrical Engineering from University of Nevada Reno, GE (General Electric) offered me a job opportunity and a PhD scholarship and I had worked there for 9 years while doing PhD at the same university. The university then invited me to teach Advanced Microprocessor and to help them with the researches for 4 years. Electronics has been my passion—my full-time job and my hobby, since I was young. In DIY and Hobbyist community, I have been behind important products that have changed the Maker Community such as Arduino and have helped develop Hacker Space, Maker Space and other organizations supporting the World’s maker movement. Before I went to the US, my aspiration and determination was to develop Thailand by the knowledge I gained and I would make Thailand the design and manufacturing hub of smart electronic products to compare with Japan, China and Korea. We would have our own house brand to export to the world. This is the reason why I expanded Gravitech to my home country.”
Over 13 years ago, Dr.Pan, a Thai engineer furthering his studies in the US, had a passion for smart electronic devices and tools that facilitate and improve human’s living so that he designed an electronic system to help research in electrical engineering. Back then, ordering PCB had to be in bulk, so he assembled all that he ordered and sold what he did not use on EBAY. To his surprise, they were all sold out and that made him realize that products designed to serve his own need also responded to that of others such as Breakout Board, Sensor Module, Microcontroller etc. He, therefore, started to design and produce DIY electronic products to sell to the communities of makers, developers, hardware, startup and hobbyist.
With his experience working closely with several parties, communities and organizations including World’s leading companies and professionals (in contact with clients and suppliers when he worked with GE); education (as a university professor); amateur and hobbyist (his hobby and in contact with open source hardware community), he gained knowledge in designing high quality products and has a thorough understanding of DIY electronics market needs. This made more than 1,000 products designed and manufactured by Gravitech become best-selling and successful all over the world and led to the establishment of the factory. He rented a 500-sqm factory, bought complete manufacturing machines, set up departments—research and development, international standard production and startup client service to serve clients who wanted new designs and prototypes. Gravitech then became a full-service company among electronic developer community and earned exponential profit every year.
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2013
Gravitech Thai was founded to support Thai-made innovations and export them to the world. Products distributed were both in-house designed and manufactured as well as imported. The company had gathered skillful personnel that were determined in researching on electronic products to localize the designs. Every single product was made by heart in every detail, manufactured by international standard factory and prompt for learning. In addition, they were designed to support one another smoothly based on commercial engineering making the prices reasonable and affordable. For imported products, they were well-selected to make sure Thai developers were able to use advanced tools with internationally comparable quality to create their own pieces of work.
2014
Makerspace was opened at 007-008 IT Mall, Fortune Town Rama 9 and named Home of Maker which was full-service operated in 4 categories.
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DIY Electronic Shop, another PCB selling channel apart from the website where customers can see the actual products before they decide to buy with advice from the engineers
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Makerspace, an open space with equipment to create prototypes
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Learning Center, a space for technological learning and knowledge exchange meetup
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Funding, a crowdfunding service to raise fund to support DIY innovations. Home of Maker received a well response in Thailand making Thai people know more about DIY innovations while originated successful works by Thai startups.
2016
The company opened Research and Development Electronic Innovation Creative Hub (RICH) located at Thailand Science Park, Innovation Cluster 1 Building, Room 106 as a hub of developers with over 50-million-baht investment in advanced machines for researches on new innovations and prototype creation using digital fabrication and PCB assembly technology in order to serve researchers. The operation also supported medium scale production. The center was backed up by BOI and received ISO 9001:2015 so that customers were assured to get the best quality products and services from us.
2017
The company opened another wholesale outlet on 1st floor at Banmo Plaza, the biggest market of electronic components in Thailand.
2018
The 2nd makerspace was opened at Thailand Science Park, Innovation Cluster Building 1, room 112 providing complete services in;
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R&D Services (PCB Design: Schematic, Layout, Firmware Design, Enclosure Box Design, Mechanical Design)
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PCB Services (PCB Fabrication: Standard FR4, Flex, Metal, High Speed, RF, PCB Assembly: SMD, PTH, BGA, Wire Harness, Component Sourcing: Electronic Parts, Development Tools, Education Products, STEM)
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DIY Electronic Shop
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Prototype Services (Circuit Board Prototype, 3D Printing, Laser Cutting: Acrylic, Wood, Leather, Engrave: Metal, UV Printing: Packaging, Vinyl, Poster)
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