Makers Lair

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.So D+S Tech Labs is alive and kicking (but without a new shop yet). And with plans on entering the CNC and robotics fields we believe we have some great ideas and products to develop.By the way, “D+S” stands for “Daniels + Science”.