About D+S Tech Labs
D+S Sound Labs got its start in May 1989 as a one-man speaker shop
with a small 360 sq.ft. storage bay in Deerfield Beach, FL. Although a full line
of large-scale home theater speaker systems was designed (The Foundation Series),
there was very little budget for advertising. As such, only a few systems
were built and sold. The bulk of work was speaker repair and residential
surround sound hookups.
In 1996 D+S Sound Labs got more serious with a 1,000 sq.ft. warehouse in Davie, FL.
I built-out this space to have an entry lobby, small wood shop, a furnished demo
room with multiple surround sound setups, a computer audio lab with anechoic test and
measurement chamber, an assembly and crossover construction area and a small kitchen nook.
Some software contracts and websites were also developed at this site.
The company thrived with 24 standard home theater speaker products as well as
custom speaker construction for large media rooms in multi-million dollar homes.
We also expanded our facility to 2,800 sq.ft. Other diversified interests
began to emerge in the fields of industrial automation software and astronomical telescopes.
A prototype telescope (Maia) was built. It was an 8-inch equatorial (yoke-mounted)
newtonian reflector and was sold before the axes were even motorized for tracking.
But in October 2005, Hurricane Wilma
took the roof off the facility and all was lost.
D+S Sound Labs rebuilt and struggled for a while and, when the economy also tanked, eventually
closed its shop doors in 2007.
The company, however, remained active and changed it's name to a more general one to persue multiple endeavors. So D+S Tech Labs, Inc. returned to its software
roots to recoup financial losses. The next few years were spent writing industrial automation
software. Specifically sortation and conveyor system control, which led to thoughts of robotics.
In 2017, D+S Tech Labs opened a new shop in Lauderhill, FL. with
plans on entering the CNC and robotics fields. We got back into building amazing
speaker systems, but also got into 3D Printing, Programming MCU's such as Arduino, Built a CNC table,
Built a full electronics station and more.
Our shop also hosted a Makerspace known as Makers' Lair. We also started a Meetup
Group which grew to nearly 700 members. But visitors dwindled to nothing when COVID hit.
And product sales also dwindled.
Admittedly, I'm terrible at marketing and couldn't pull myself away from projects long enough
to learn the latest "social media" marketing techniques and work on increasing sales.
The shop lease also increased to a prohibitive amount, so I decided to close the shop in 2023.
And two weeks before leaving, we got hit by a flood. I guess it serves me right
for not making it work.
Now, D+S is concentrating on IoT Devices and Web-Based Industrial Control Software.
Plus there are plans to develop smart AI devices using the NVidia Jetson
Nano board, OpenAI and OpenCV.
By the way, "D+S" stands for "Daniels + Science".
with a small 360 sq.ft. storage bay in Deerfield Beach, FL. Although a full line
of large-scale home theater speaker systems was designed (The Foundation Series),
there was very little budget for advertising. As such, only a few systems
were built and sold. The bulk of work was speaker repair and residential
surround sound hookups.In 1996 D+S Sound Labs got more serious with a 1,000 sq.ft. warehouse in Davie, FL.
I built-out this space to have an entry lobby, small wood shop, a furnished demo
room with multiple surround sound setups, a computer audio lab with anechoic test and
measurement chamber, an assembly and crossover construction area and a small kitchen nook.
Some software contracts and websites were also developed at this site.
The company thrived with 24 standard home theater speaker products as well as
custom speaker construction for large media rooms in multi-million dollar homes.
We also expanded our facility to 2,800 sq.ft. Other diversified interests
began to emerge in the fields of industrial automation software and astronomical telescopes.
A prototype telescope (Maia) was built. It was an 8-inch equatorial (yoke-mounted)
newtonian reflector and was sold before the axes were even motorized for tracking.
But in October 2005, Hurricane Wilma
took the roof off the facility and all was lost.
D+S Sound Labs rebuilt and struggled for a while and, when the economy also tanked, eventually
closed its shop doors in 2007.The company, however, remained active and changed it's name to a more general one to persue multiple endeavors. So D+S Tech Labs, Inc. returned to its software
roots to recoup financial losses. The next few years were spent writing industrial automation
software. Specifically sortation and conveyor system control, which led to thoughts of robotics.
In 2017, D+S Tech Labs opened a new shop in Lauderhill, FL. with
plans on entering the CNC and robotics fields. We got back into building amazing
speaker systems, but also got into 3D Printing, Programming MCU's such as Arduino, Built a CNC table,
Built a full electronics station and more.
Our shop also hosted a Makerspace known as Makers' Lair. We also started a Meetup
Group which grew to nearly 700 members. But visitors dwindled to nothing when COVID hit.
And product sales also dwindled.
Admittedly, I'm terrible at marketing and couldn't pull myself away from projects long enough
to learn the latest "social media" marketing techniques and work on increasing sales.
The shop lease also increased to a prohibitive amount, so I decided to close the shop in 2023.
And two weeks before leaving, we got hit by a flood. I guess it serves me right
for not making it work.
Now, D+S is concentrating on IoT Devices and Web-Based Industrial Control Software.
Plus there are plans to develop smart AI devices using the NVidia Jetson
Nano board, OpenAI and OpenCV.By the way, "D+S" stands for "Daniels + Science".
About Me
I've had a fascination with numbers and math since grade school. My first calculator was
actually TI's first calculator - the TI2500. It didn't have a square root key but I
found by repeating a sequence of operations
I could generate square roots. I had no idea it was my first "algorithm".
What a nerd :|
This led to a "programmable" calculator - the TI-59.
It could remember a vast number of keystrokes and even had a magnetic card reader.
I even wrote a golf game with this calculator using graph paper with hills,
trees and sand traps.
And so began my life-long connection with programming. Of course
I had to have one of the original Apple ][ computers when they came out. I learned
Applesoft BASIC and Motorola 6502 machine language programming. I was hooked!
But in high school I also took an interest in wood working, high-end audio
with big speakers, motor controlled telescopes, physics and astronomy,
skate boarding, gymnastics, racquetball and the drums.
Several of my term papers were on static and rotating black holes and worm holes.
I studied the works of Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne - even gave a lecture on stellar evolution.
I studied acoustics and speaker crossover theory, newtonian reflectors and
equatorial telescope mounts. So throughout my college days, and to this day,
I was already juggling too many interests. Just not enough time to do everything
I wanted to try. I built a few 8" telescopes - and lots of speakers for friends
and even installed their car audio systems. My dream was to eventually have
multiple labs, one for each of my "mad scientist" projects.
My working days started as a programmer for a few companies and even landed some nice contractor jobs with IBM and other tech companies. In 1990 I was formally trained in
C++ object-oriented programming by IBM (very rare for a contractor). I was
part of the EduQuest team in Boca Raton, FL and even wrote a Graphical Windowing System
in pure DOS. I also worked on their OS2/Warp Operating System and OpenDoc project.
But after a few years I was getting the itch to do something else. I was too
much of an entrepreneur to spend the rest of my life in a cubicle/office.
So in 1996 I opened a home theater speaker shop in Davie, FL.
I designed and built hundreds of systems with far better quality than any
store-bought systems. But I still kept my hand in learning new software
technologies such as Microsoft's .NET platform, C#, XAML, WPF/Silverlight, WCF,
WinForms and SQL Server. I wrote at least a dozen websites while at the shop.
And even built a large telescope.
But Hurricane Wilma ended my fun at the shop and sent me back to my software roots. Which may have been
a good thing because on my next job at
GBI Sorters I learned
about industrial automation and conveyor systems, single board micro PC's and embedded
development. I wrote my best software at GBI and, in fact, re-wrote their
legacy application to operate and control their sortation machines. I also wrote
from scratch a conveyor system design and control application, which they had always
outsourced. I was at GBI for nearly four years - until they fell into
financial difficulty and had to layoff all their engineers, including me.
But now I had the tools to think about robotics and CNC tables. So
these days I'm concentrating on a robot arm with grand plans toward a "Builder Bot" and
a CNC table that combines both a table saw and router table - the "Maker Table".
I still multitask between projects from my other interests (labs).
And yes, I regard having to eat and sleep as interruptions :)
Check out the Labs Section. Each Lab has some of my projects that have kept me out of trouble :).
If interested, here is my Online Portfolio.
--Bill Daniels
actually TI's first calculator - the TI2500. It didn't have a square root key but I
found by repeating a sequence of operations
I could generate square roots. I had no idea it was my first "algorithm".
What a nerd :|
This led to a "programmable" calculator - the TI-59.
It could remember a vast number of keystrokes and even had a magnetic card reader.
I even wrote a golf game with this calculator using graph paper with hills,
trees and sand traps.
And so began my life-long connection with programming. Of course
I had to have one of the original Apple ][ computers when they came out. I learned
Applesoft BASIC and Motorola 6502 machine language programming. I was hooked!
But in high school I also took an interest in wood working, high-end audio
with big speakers, motor controlled telescopes, physics and astronomy,
skate boarding, gymnastics, racquetball and the drums.
Several of my term papers were on static and rotating black holes and worm holes.
I studied the works of Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne - even gave a lecture on stellar evolution.
I studied acoustics and speaker crossover theory, newtonian reflectors and
equatorial telescope mounts. So throughout my college days, and to this day,
I was already juggling too many interests. Just not enough time to do everything
I wanted to try. I built a few 8" telescopes - and lots of speakers for friends
and even installed their car audio systems. My dream was to eventually have
multiple labs, one for each of my "mad scientist" projects.My working days started as a programmer for a few companies and even landed some nice contractor jobs with IBM and other tech companies. In 1990 I was formally trained in
C++ object-oriented programming by IBM (very rare for a contractor). I was
part of the EduQuest team in Boca Raton, FL and even wrote a Graphical Windowing System
in pure DOS. I also worked on their OS2/Warp Operating System and OpenDoc project.
But after a few years I was getting the itch to do something else. I was too
much of an entrepreneur to spend the rest of my life in a cubicle/office.
So in 1996 I opened a home theater speaker shop in Davie, FL.
I designed and built hundreds of systems with far better quality than any
store-bought systems. But I still kept my hand in learning new software
technologies such as Microsoft's .NET platform, C#, XAML, WPF/Silverlight, WCF,
WinForms and SQL Server. I wrote at least a dozen websites while at the shop.
And even built a large telescope.But Hurricane Wilma ended my fun at the shop and sent me back to my software roots. Which may have been
a good thing because on my next job at
GBI Sorters I learned
about industrial automation and conveyor systems, single board micro PC's and embedded
development. I wrote my best software at GBI and, in fact, re-wrote their
legacy application to operate and control their sortation machines. I also wrote
from scratch a conveyor system design and control application, which they had always
outsourced. I was at GBI for nearly four years - until they fell into
financial difficulty and had to layoff all their engineers, including me.
But now I had the tools to think about robotics and CNC tables. So
these days I'm concentrating on a robot arm with grand plans toward a "Builder Bot" and
a CNC table that combines both a table saw and router table - the "Maker Table".
I still multitask between projects from my other interests (labs).
And yes, I regard having to eat and sleep as interruptions :)Check out the Labs Section. Each Lab has some of my projects that have kept me out of trouble :).
If interested, here is my Online Portfolio.
--Bill Daniels