Dog House for BeagleBoard xM - Sneak Peek
06/30/2010 12:38 Filed in: Mechanical Engineering | C.A.D.
[Update: 8/24/10 - The new Dog House for Beagle Board xM case is now available from ESawdust.com]
Synopsis: This is a sneak peek at the new Dog House for BeagleBoard xM board introduced in June, 2010. We’ve been on a roll lately - just last week we introduced Crib for Arduino Case - a metal case for your Arduino projects and also an Ethernet Shield faceplate for Arduinos. This week, we have the pleasure of showing you an advanced look at the case (enclosure) we designed for the BeagleBoard xM.
In our enclosure design process we always go through one or more complete manufacturing prototype runs. This lets us see the true product, work out any manufacturing problems and special processes, get the physical enclosure in our hands, size it up and see how it feels - all things that are impossible to accomplish from a C.A.D. design.
What follows is a sneak peek at the first Dog House for BeagleBaord xM. We expect in 3-4 weeks we’ll have production quantities ready for sale. Watch ESawdust.com for news about the Dog House for BeagleBoard xM.
This is a 3-piece design similar to the Dog House for Beagle Board. In order to wrap a board with connectors on 3 sides, there’s almost no other way to do it than a 3-piece. So, that element carried through in this Dog House.
One thing that is different is we went with a threaded built-in standoff instead of a compression standoff. We like both types, but decided to try out the thread built-in on this enclosure and see how it goes and what customers think of it.
Of course the beauty of having built-in standoffs for a product like this is that A) you don’t have to drill holes, B) you don’t have to fuss with extra hardware (faster to assemble a lot of these) and C) you get perfect alignment of the board with the faces of the two-part lid.
Like the original Dog House for BeagleBoard, you can see that this is complicated enclosure to design and get to fit well. We’ve worked hard on the fit so you get functional, durable, professional cases for your BeagleBoard products.
Landon Cox
www.ESawdust.com
Synopsis: This is a sneak peek at the new Dog House for BeagleBoard xM board introduced in June, 2010. We’ve been on a roll lately - just last week we introduced Crib for Arduino Case - a metal case for your Arduino projects and also an Ethernet Shield faceplate for Arduinos. This week, we have the pleasure of showing you an advanced look at the case (enclosure) we designed for the BeagleBoard xM.
In our enclosure design process we always go through one or more complete manufacturing prototype runs. This lets us see the true product, work out any manufacturing problems and special processes, get the physical enclosure in our hands, size it up and see how it feels - all things that are impossible to accomplish from a C.A.D. design.
What follows is a sneak peek at the first Dog House for BeagleBaord xM. We expect in 3-4 weeks we’ll have production quantities ready for sale. Watch ESawdust.com for news about the Dog House for BeagleBoard xM.
This is a 3-piece design similar to the Dog House for Beagle Board. In order to wrap a board with connectors on 3 sides, there’s almost no other way to do it than a 3-piece. So, that element carried through in this Dog House.
One thing that is different is we went with a threaded built-in standoff instead of a compression standoff. We like both types, but decided to try out the thread built-in on this enclosure and see how it goes and what customers think of it.
Of course the beauty of having built-in standoffs for a product like this is that A) you don’t have to drill holes, B) you don’t have to fuss with extra hardware (faster to assemble a lot of these) and C) you get perfect alignment of the board with the faces of the two-part lid.
Like the original Dog House for BeagleBoard, you can see that this is complicated enclosure to design and get to fit well. We’ve worked hard on the fit so you get functional, durable, professional cases for your BeagleBoard products.
Landon Cox
www.ESawdust.com
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