Designing New Chameleon 1 Faceplates
09/07/10 15:07 Filed in: Enclosures
Synopsis: The
Chameleon
1 enclosure system has been on the
market a little over a year now and there has
been some good feedback and some trends I’m
seeing with it. One of those trends is many
customers are buying it for electronic hardware
for which we have no pre-fabbed faceplate. I
think that’s a great sign as they see value in
the enclosure baseplate and shell itself but yet
it makes me want to find all the different
faceplate needs we’re not covering and start
offering as many as we can afford to make.
One of the comments I’ve heard about the Chameleon enclosure is that it would be nice to have a faceplate with just DB9 connectors. Another comment was it would be nice to have a lid with no mounting flanges (more on that later.)
I’ve also learned of some customers who have machined mesh holes in the lid to provide some ventilation for their project.
So, with those comments in mind, I designed a variation of DB9 faceplates and one perforated faceplate. I hope to take at least 2 or 3 of these designs to metal within the next 2-4 weeks. If you would like to influence which designs go to metal please contact me and I’ll certainly take it into consideration.
This is a 3D rendering of a selection of faceplates I’m considering offering soon.
[I did these designs in Alibre Design 12.1 Expert. Rendering done using Keyshot 2 ray-tracing engine.]
If you have ideas for other faceplate designs we should do, please let us know. Same for the Crib for Arduino - I expect we’ll be offering a DB9 faceplate for the Crib product line also (FEZ Domino and Arduino / Arduino Mega), but I don’t have a time-frame yet for it.
The requested Chameleon lid with no mounting flanges is already in design mode and we’ll be releasing that in approximately 4-5 weeks.
We keep expanding the Chameleon enclosure system to make it more functional all the time and appreciate all our customer’s feedback. Stay tuned...there’s more interesting attachments coming that are on the drawing board right now.
Landon Cox
www.ESawdust.com
One of the comments I’ve heard about the Chameleon enclosure is that it would be nice to have a faceplate with just DB9 connectors. Another comment was it would be nice to have a lid with no mounting flanges (more on that later.)
I’ve also learned of some customers who have machined mesh holes in the lid to provide some ventilation for their project.
So, with those comments in mind, I designed a variation of DB9 faceplates and one perforated faceplate. I hope to take at least 2 or 3 of these designs to metal within the next 2-4 weeks. If you would like to influence which designs go to metal please contact me and I’ll certainly take it into consideration.
This is a 3D rendering of a selection of faceplates I’m considering offering soon.
[I did these designs in Alibre Design 12.1 Expert. Rendering done using Keyshot 2 ray-tracing engine.]
If you have ideas for other faceplate designs we should do, please let us know. Same for the Crib for Arduino - I expect we’ll be offering a DB9 faceplate for the Crib product line also (FEZ Domino and Arduino / Arduino Mega), but I don’t have a time-frame yet for it.
The requested Chameleon lid with no mounting flanges is already in design mode and we’ll be releasing that in approximately 4-5 weeks.
We keep expanding the Chameleon enclosure system to make it more functional all the time and appreciate all our customer’s feedback. Stay tuned...there’s more interesting attachments coming that are on the drawing board right now.
Landon Cox
www.ESawdust.com
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