Camouflaging Electrical Enclosures | Design for Mass Production 3D Printing
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In this episode of Design for Mass Production 3D Printing, we take a look at the future of invisible technology!
We showcase how to create discreet and aesthetically pleasing electrical enclosures that blend seamlessly with their surroundings. Whether it's transforming a Wi-Fi router into an unnoticeable piece of decor at events or integrating tech into natural environments without the visual disturbance of conventional enclosures, this video explores the endless possibilities of 3D printing.
Learn how advanced techniques like subtractive Boolean Operations and creative design can lead to the production of the coolest 3D printed products. Ideal for designers, tech enthusiasts, and anyone interested in cutting-edge 3D printing applications, this video is your gateway to rethinking how technology integrates into our daily lives.
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Another option is to make functional items that also incorporate electrical enclosures - a bird house, bat house, bird feeder, planter, flower pot, fence post bracket, and counter intuitively, a fountain or bird bath. Nobody is going to expect something with water to be an electronics enclosure but the control board for a theme park fountain that has water jets synchronized to music could be housed in the fountain.
With plastic enclosures, the signal loss for radio waves is minimal if the thickness of plastic is less than 1/10th of the wavelength, which is useful information when enclosing a wifi router, transceiver, etc. Black or gray often uses carbon so that can attenuate radio signals but other colors should be OK. Example: 2.4 GHz wifi has a wavelength of 125 mm or around 5 inches, so solid plastic less than 1/2" or 12.5 mm should be OK. 5 GHz wifi should have a plastic enclosure thinner than 1/4" or 6 mm.
Or you can add antenna outlets
I could see this being very handy when setting up trail cameras
Theoretically, you could even make electronics that don't need to be plugged in. Using a wireless charger receiver and maybe a battery depending on your use, you could pause at layer height, insert the electronics, then resume a print over and you'd have a sealed object that visually doesn't appear to have any plugs but can still function if placed on something with a hidden wireless charger. An example could be a glowing rock which when placed in a certain location would wirelessly power LEDs. Or a random looking object could actually be a Bluetooth speaker that charges wirelessly and is completely portable.
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Is that where filament comes from? It's the spores for 3D printed Alien mushrooms?
Hey! Thanks for featuring my little mushroom in this video.
If anyone wants to print it out themselves, I have uploaded the "Alien Mushrooms" and many other models to Thingiverse and many other 3d printing sites. Have fun printing (and painting)!
So simple, yet so elegant.
It's a good thing you show case these use cases.
This can also be a good way to waterproof something that wasn’t originally made to go outside.
3D printing is also great if you want just a few of them and want to avoid the minimum run requirements of injection molding.
Very true
meshtastic nodes :)
Thx for the content!!
Our pleasure!
So get cool model you want to use to hide your enclosure
Cut it into two
Add negative model from the enclosure you want to use :D
Add magnets
Only issue with putting a control board in a mushroom if it doesn't give you mushroom to play around with Keepo
How were the cavities in the bird house made without internal support? It seems like that oval shape would have a lot of layer overhang. Thanks
Depending on the layer height and line width, this might even work just fine without additional support. Actually, you can get away with pretty bad angles if the surface quality doesn't matter all that much. In this case, the most problematic surfaces would be inside - and I don't think the birds would care. ;-)
Nice video but 1:01 mannn those are some wickedly visible layer lines. I hope this was just some bad filament you guys were using
Only issue I see, is possible heat build up.
Power connection? Batteries? Battery port? Cable tension management? Fastening method (inserts? Or just screw it together as is?) Good explanation though! Thanks for sharing. Your latest content has been quite useful!
All these things could be designed to be part of your 'negative' - or a separate secondary negative depending on the application
This is clearly an example of a design technique and not a finished product.
yoo
0:35 - That looks ugly. I thought it was photoshopped at first.
No way, someone did something that ridiculous. Then I remembered, it's probably in Florida.
That "chip" is a printed circuit board.
Yes, and the chips on that board are going to overheat in minutes without ventilation
@@RandyCampbell-fk3pf - Probably not. Unless the board is a single board computer, it won't dissipate much heat. Most electronics, including low power transceivers, use very little power. Most electronics you'd want to hide in an alien mushroom will have sensors and maybe a microcontroller that's doing very limited computation to control devices.
@@Liberty4Ever wifi routers aren't one of those ultra low power devices though
Gabe is into Arduino! Hell yeah!