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Erik Norris — Principal Mechanical Architect

Thirty years of shipped hardware across SGI, Frog Design, WebTV/Microsoft, Digidesign/Avid, Kaleidescape, Avegant, Noon, and Hyphen. I stabilize the entropy of product development: structure the chaos, index the decisions, ship the hardware.

Indexed Projects: 112
Employers: 9
Span: 1987–2025

Featured Deep Dives

C|24

Mechanical engineering lead for Digidesign's C|24 control surface: a ground-up RoHS re-architecture that killed a ~$200/unit royalty, held a 51.8% gross margin through a supply-chain collapse, and shipped 500 units for Q4 2007 revenue.

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M700 Vesta Vault Recovery

Kaleidescape M700 'Vesta' disc vault recovery (2010-11): forensic root-cause analysis that arrested fleet-wide disc jams, scratching, and read errors driven by mechanical tolerance drift in the robotic carousel.

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Avegant Glyph

Lead mechanical architect for the Avegant Glyph 'personal theater' (2015-17): head-mounted display optics fused into high-fidelity headphones, with headband fatigue life averaging 81,000 destruction cycles — 3x the 25,000-cycle requirement.

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