Tadao Technologies is a company founded on the principles of integrity, honesty, and customer satisfaction. We specialize in custom software and embedded systems applications for the paintball industry. Tadao Technologies is owned and operated by William Paul Tadao Roberson, a computer science graduate of North Carolina State University. He lives in Raleigh, NC and is the tech for the NXL's Baltimore Trauma, based in Greensboro. The company name was chosen to honor Will's grandfather, Dr. Frank Tadao Inouye, who was an especially brilliant man and certifiable genius.
At Tadao Technologies all design, testing and programming is done by veteran paintball players. Only the final assembly of the printed circuit boards is contracted out. Our company understands the needs of paintball players because we ARE players, in addition to being professional programmers and engineers. This unique combination of talent and knowledge ensures that each of our products represents the latest innovations and highest standards in the paintball and electronic industries.
Our unique trigger scanning and debounce routines, along with our superior eye logic, have always formed the basis of Tadao Technologies' revolutionary software. The debounce algorithms and eye logic featured in all our products are acknowledged as the best in the industry. No other products provide the amazing speed, performance, consistency, smoothness and reliability of our boards and chips.
Tadao Technologies has an impressive list of sponsored teams, including the almost unbeatable Dynasty and other legendary teams such as Trauma, Infamous, and the Philly Americans. Not one of our sponsored teams is paid to use our products; they use them because they want the best. They know that the highest performing boards and chips in the industry are designed and made by Tadao Technologies. As players we understand that it is not an upgraded marker that makes a paintballer into a superstar, but it certainly does not hurt to have Tadao on your side.
Will Roberson, President
Tadao Technologies LLC
The best way to pronounce Tadao is "tah-dah'-oh." Notice the accent on dah. In Japanese the last two syllables blend together, so you would start with a "daaaah" sound and smoothly transition into an "ow" sound like you pinched your finger.
There is no "day" sound at all. :)
 The Japanese language has multiple written forms. The two large calligraphy in the upper left corner represent one version of Tadao as written in Kanji, which translates to loyal, faithful, strong, valiant and courageous. The smaller characters to their right represent Tadao in Hiragana.
In the fall of 2002, the GZ and 2K2 Intimidators slowly began to eclipse other paintball markers on the tournament scene because they had one important feature: an anti-chop eye system. The ability to pull the trigger as fast as a player wanted with little chance of chopping a ball was so appealing that people began looking for ways to bolt an eye set onto their own markers.
Then came Egi's NYX Matrix. However, there was no aftermarket alternative for an eye system. You had to buy a new NYX Matrix in order to get the eyes. As a computer science student, Will, with the help of his electrical engineering friend Jorinjit Gill, developed the original Tadao 1.1 Matrix board, which was sold to The Matrix Center and marketed as the TMC/Trauma Eye. Although by no means lucrative, the success of the Matrix board led to successive revisions and the Tadao 3.0 and 4.0 Matrix boards. Further projects left the Matrix world, with the overall goal being the production of aftermarket electronics for every popular paintball marker on the market.
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