Part 2: Front Panel Labels

As you’ll see in upcoming posts at work we make front panel stickers using polycarbonate overlays. So I thought I’d go through the process of cutting out / routing the label. It’s been a bit of a long route to perfect this process as really the labels should be laser cut as they are so…

Inverting Positive Supplies

Currently I’m designing a power supply board for a vacuum reservoir system. I have a 24V power supply and need to generate plus and minus 5V for some analogue + digital circuitry. Normally I would use off the shelf DC-DC that can provide a couple of mA; however this time i want to my +-5V…

Part 1: Front Panel Labels

Back when I first joined the Electronics Section at The University of Manchester. when we designed equipment we would label it with Dymo labels. Weeks sometimes months of detailed thought, design, construction and testing would be finished with 5 minute, wonky labels, that dropped off 3 months later. I personally think aesthetics and UI/UX is…