Flightscope required design assistance on a number of different projects associated with their golf tracking radar technology products. I was involved in a number of these projects to help find solutions to an existing enclosure design issues as well as to explore new concepts for upcoming flightscope products.
The former was to improve the functionality of an existing enclosure design where the tooling had already been manufactured and the quality of the enclosures was sub standard and the radar was not positioned far enough off the ground to provide consistent readings. The solution to this was to machine an anodised aluminium spacer plate which not only added additional structure to the mouldings but also hid any deformation of the mouldings in a machined slot within the spacer plate. The plate also enabled the enclosure to be raised off the ground and was able to be adapted to work with Flightscope's existing stabilising mechanism. The spacer plate was able to act as an internal mounting plate for some of the electronics and the product looks as though the plate was meant to be part of the design from the start and elevates the products level of quality through the use of the metal component.
Other concept work conducted for Flightscope can be seen in the below series of concepts which were explored for a potential future product.
