Bringing Your Ideas to Life.

Some projects don’t have an off-the-shelf solution. Tamar Cove Engineering designs and builds custom puzzles, interactive props, electronics, and control systems for unusual requirements and specialized applications.

Drawing on more than a decade of hands-on project experience, Tamar Cove combines electronics, embedded software, sensors, controls, PCB design, and physical fabrication to turn ideas into working systems.

Interactive TNT Puzzle — Custom escape room prop combining physical controls, lighting, electronics, audio, and embedded game logic

Built Around Custom Requirements.

For more than a decade, much of Tamar Cove Engineering’s custom project work has supported escape room designers and operators—developing interactive puzzles, electronic props, control systems, and other one-of-a-kind solutions for immersive environments.

These projects often require more than a single technology. Electronics, embedded software, sensors, controls, physical mechanisms, lighting, sound, and fabrication may all need to work together reliably while remaining largely invisible to the people using them.

That experience has also driven the development of custom electronics and purpose-built PCBs, turning one-off prototypes into more robust and reusable solutions.

The same multidisciplinary approach can be applied to other unusual projects where an off-the-shelf solution doesn’t quite fit.

What Tamar Cove Engineering Can Build

Interactive Puzzles & Props

Electronics, Controls & PCB Design

Prototypes & One-Off Solutions

From the Workbench

Custom projects often evolve through experimentation, prototyping, and refinement. Here are a few examples of puzzles, props, electronics, and control systems developed by Tamar Cove Engineering.

Multidisciplinary Design & Development

Tamar Cove Engineering combines electronics, software, systems engineering, and hands-on development to create specialized solutions that cross traditional technical boundaries.

Have Something Unique In Mind?

Whether you have an idea, a technical problem, or something that doesn’t quite exist yet, let’s start with a conversation about what you’re trying to accomplish.