Machining and Prototyping

Posted by FirmWarez on 12 Mar 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

Have been doing quite a bit of machine shop work building enclosure prototypes for a start-up I’m involved with.

The device is designed to mount to a standard rail, for those of you whom that means anything. The enclosures are tubular, about the size of a small flashlight.

Current design has a stack of board elements — battery connection, main processor/sensor board, and display — that is held in place by a press fit ring. Final enclosures will be hard black anodized.

Turning and boring operations:

Milling a slot to connect in-circuit programming tool:
(slot is for development work only; will not be present on final product)

Various pieces:

Press fit board stack retainer:

Retainer in place:

Prototype running on bench:

Two different versions:

Stack of protos:

« dc501 Defcon 19 Badge | CATO »