About Groundstate
Groundstate Technology LLC
is an independent Ohio technology and applied research company developing practical systems across software, engineering, accessibility, scientific tooling, public-data analysis, salvage and reuse, education, and community-scale infrastructure.
Our work starts with a simple operating principle: useful technology should be understandable, testable, repairable, and capable of leaving the screen. We build working prototypes, document what they can and cannot do, invite collaboration where openness improves the work, and keep selected R&D private when security, intellectual property, or safety requires more control.
01
Build
Software, instruments, field tools, workflows, and physical systems designed around real problems.
02
Verify
Separate hypotheses from evidence, prototypes from products, and simulations from validated systems.
03
Share
Open projects, tutorials, source code, files, and lessons when sharing makes the technology more useful.
04
Reuse
Treat discarded machines, materials, data, and overlooked skills as inputs rather than waste.
Where we work
Software
Biomedical tooling
Accessibility
Engineering
Salvage & reuse
Public data
Education
Field systems
Community infrastructure
Groundstate R&D
Groundstate is not a software company with side projects.
It is an applied research and development company using software, engineering, materials science, field systems, salvage, and public-data tools wherever they are useful. The work below ranges from early research concepts to functioning prototypes and active public software.
BIOMATERIALS
CRITICAL MATERIALS
FIELD SYSTEMS
ENVIRONMENTAL R&D
SOFTWARE
Decellularization / Recellularization Research
PRE-CLINICAL CONCEPT
Exploratory biomaterials work studying how biological and engineered scaffolds can be decellularized, characterized, and repopulated with defined cell populations. Proposed research includes healthy, cancer, stromal, immune, and endothelial cells to investigate tissue organization, tumor microenvironments, therapy-response models, and regenerative-medicine questions.
LEWEI
CRITICAL MATERIALS
Lake County Critical Materials Recovery Feasibility Initiative.
A phased, data-first effort examining whether legacy landfill electronics could become a recoverable domestic feedstock for strategic materials. The current focus is records, site characterization, partner and agency validation, grant alignment, downstream-processing options, and a repeatable county-scale feasibility playbook—not excavation.
Field Infrastructure & Resilience
FIELD SYSTEMS
Low-cost systems for mapping, offline planning, logistics, sensing, local information, and field awareness—especially where connectivity, budgets, or conventional infrastructure are limited. The emphasis is repairability, local operation, reused hardware, and systems that remain useful when cloud services are unavailable.
Materials Recovery & Environmental R&D
SALVAGE / REUSE
Work centered on extracting more value from discarded equipment and materials: salvage cataloging, component recovery, reuse pathways, repairable fabrication, and exploratory passive indicators for chemical exposure, corrosion, pH, and environmental stress.
Accessibility & Human-Centered Systems
APPLIED PROTOTYPING
Projects such as
EchoWalk
explore whether ordinary phones and inexpensive sensors can provide useful new interfaces for obstacle awareness and spatial feedback. These are experimental prototypes, not certified assistive or medical devices.
Explore EchoWalk →
Software & Digital Infrastructure
OPEN + CONTROLLED
Software is the connective tissue across much of Groundstate: medical-data research with CareGrid, asteroid/public-data investigation with IuPetra, communications with Ouiji-Chat, media research with SignalWall, maker infrastructure with BonePile, and operational systems such as StaffRoot and TradeRoot.
Research standard:
Groundstate distinguishes concepts, prototypes, demonstrations, and validated systems. Early-stage work is presented as early-stage work; clinical, environmental, safety, and performance claims require appropriate testing and independent validation.
Support Groundstate
Groundstate is being built lean. Contributions help pay for hosting, development equipment, test hardware, materials, documentation, software services, field work, and the less glamorous infrastructure that turns prototypes into durable projects.
Support does not purchase equity, ownership, IP rights, governance rights, certification, or special licensing rights unless covered by a separate written agreement.
Contact
Interested in contributing, testing, research collaboration, education, fabrication, community projects, or helping turn one of these prototypes into something stronger? Reach out with the project or field in the subject line.
