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Field · Hardware

Hardware, enclosures and 3D printing

Boards, firmware, SOLIDWORKS enclosures and printed parts, for the projects that need something physical. A project here is staffed with project lead, hardware and firmware and mechanical design, runs through the same five steps as every other field, and is quoted as a fixed price against a written specification.

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Typical jobs

  • Electronics and PCB layout
  • Firmware
  • Enclosures in SOLIDWORKS
  • 3D-printed parts and fixtures

Who is on the project

  • Project lead
  • Hardware and firmware
  • Mechanical design

Projects

  • A printed display part, design to bed — Modelled in code, validated as a printable mesh, sliced and printed in ABS on an enclosed CoreXY printer, first time. The render below is the model; no photograph of the print is published.
Render of the printed display part: a rounded cube balanced on one corner on a slender column
The model, rendered. 235 mm tall, printed in one part.

The work and notes behind it

The core

The same five steps as every field

  1. 1

    Read

    Get the data off the system as it really is: the protocol, the decoder, the export, the jar. Measured, not taken from the manual.

  2. 2

    Name

    Map it to one data model with your names and tags, so the next system and the next engineer can find it.

  3. 3

    Act

    Write back only where it is meant to: priorities, schedules, commands. Every write is scoped and reversible.

  4. 4

    Show

    Put it in front of the person who needs it: a graphic, a dashboard, an alarm, an agent answer.

  5. 5

    Hand over

    Source, notes and access in your name. Support afterwards if you want it, and nothing that only we can keep alive.

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