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Tools, suppliers, and gear the Alleycat team actually uses
These are not sponsors. They are channels and vendors we have paid, and built with. Most of the list is fabrication and prototyping: PCBs, filament, acrylic, printers, and one person whose tutorials saved us from a shop of unorganized chaos. If you are starting from zero on a fork of Alleycat, pair this page with Open Source for repos and hardware docs.
Found something better? Tell us in Discord or open a PR on GitHub.
Suppliers
JLCPCB
PDN and FDN PCBs as well as every year of ID cards were manufactured at JLCPCB. Fast turnaround, reasonable minimums, and reliable enough that it is our default board house for every generation of Alleycat hardware.
Parts
Atomic Filament
PETG filament for PDN enclosures and field props. Atomic Filament has a huge range of colors, is made in America, and has a very consistent quality.
Suppliers
Houston Acrylic
This female owned business sells laser-cut acrylic sheet stock, including the material for the original **Data Crypt** (Neo 2022). They have the largest selection we have ever seen, fast delivery to us here in Austin, consistent quality, and great customer service.
Tools
Prusa
PDN enclosures and field props print on Prusa hardware. Josef Prusa has even dueled on a PDN at Open Sauce - the Prusa-printed parts were in play at the time. Prusa has the strongest commitment to the open source communtiy of any 3D printing manufacturer.
Resources
Alexandre Chappel
Alexandre Chappel's assortment cabinet design brought order to our parts chaos. His shop tutorials are worth following if you are setting up a build space from scratch. He also dueled on a PDN at Open Sauce 2026.