{"id":365,"date":"2012-03-12T14:13:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T20:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2012-09-02T08:26:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T14:26:23","slug":"machining-and-prototyping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Machining and Prototyping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have been doing quite a bit of machine shop work building enclosure prototypes for a start-up I&#8217;m involved with.<\/p>\n<p>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.  <\/p>\n<p>Current design has a stack of board elements &#8212; battery connection, main processor\/sensor board, and display &#8212; that is held in place by a press fit ring.  Final enclosures will be hard black anodized.<\/p>\n<p>Turning and boring operations:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_20120301_141404.jpg\" alt=\"turning\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_20120308_111921.jpg\" alt=\"boring!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Milling a slot to connect in-circuit programming tool:<br \/>\n(slot is for development work only; will not be present on final product)<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_20120308_123004.jpg\" alt=\"milling slot\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Various pieces:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_20120308_121203.jpg\" alt=\"pieces\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Press fit board stack retainer:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_20120308_124652.jpg\" alt=\"pressing retainer in place\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Retainer in place:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_20120308_124743.jpg\" alt=\"retainer in place\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prototype running on bench:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_20120308_132113.jpg\" alt=\"running proto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two different versions:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_20120313_120345.jpg\" alt=\"display options\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stack of protos:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_20120313_121100.jpg\" alt=\"various prototypes on machine\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have been doing quite a bit of machine shop work building enclosure prototypes for a start-up I&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}