Electronic – How to make final good looking prototype of our project

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The handmade projects we make contain a lot of loose wiring and are actually bad looking products. So what should I do to make my product look better and that we can actually sell directly to people? Also, we want them to look attractive when displayed in my school exhibition.

Best Answer

Some tips about wiring and good looking electronic prototypes / homemade devices in general:

  • wires may look good too, just make them look organized
  • use pretty colorful wires (also you should use proper color coding as Scott Seidman suggested in comments)
  • if your PCB looks ugly because you have no soldermask - hide that with silkscreen/description layer made of paper

  • make frame or whole casing with plexiglass. Now there is a lot of people with CNC machines who cut beautiful colorful plexiglass in any shapes (at least here where I live). You can design and order (on ebay?) any fancy casing you want and thats not expensive.

  • try to make everything clean and elegant

  • use your own brain/creativity :)

Take a look at these images:

Wiring

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Hiding ugly PCB color under paper

Note: Don't forget that paper is flammable (thanks for Ricardo for pointing this in comments).

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Plexiglass

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