Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 2:15PM 
Hello,
Panels arrived yesterday so I just wanted to drop a quick note to say thanks to you both for the work.
They look great, just as I'd hoped - very happy with the final result.
Many thanks.
Justin Owen
Abstract Data: Musical Instruments and Effects
WB: http://www.abstractdata.biz
Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 1:47PM Customer Bluebell Opticom's TDM700 System was used to provide fibre optic links from three cameras to the outside broadcast van at Bucklebury during the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Katherine. Outside broadcast facilities were provided by In5 Broadcast and this is what they say:
"An honour to be a part of this huge celebration across the United Kingdom, in5 Broadcast was very happy to be asked to supply high definition pictures from Kate's home town Bucklebury.
Our job was to supply a three camera HD truck at the Village green, live to the main BBC hub at Canada gate, This was an ideal opportunity to use our new Bluebell fibre optic units enabling use to cover the entire green with its fun activities."
If you go to the in5 Broadcast website http://www.in5broadcast.co.uk and click on the Royal Wedding link you can see lots of pictures of the Bluebell unit on the back of a Panasonic HPX 3700 HD camera.
Obviously we are pleased because we designed the housing on our Solidworks CAD system. We had a matter of weeks to get the prototypes ready for the IBC 2010 show in Amsterdam, but it was worth it because Bluebell won a prestigious Pick Hit Award for IBC2010. Full details on the Bluebell Opticom website http://www.bluebellcomms.co.uk
My only slight gripe in all this is that we do a lot of beautiful laser printing on Bluebell's products, and looking at the unit on the in5 Broadcast camera I would like to see the white Bluebell Opticom logo on the side of the box. The benefit of laser printing is that it will not rub off, unlike screen printing. Maybe I'll have a word with Paul...
Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 4:18PM We designed a special power supply housing for Mike Grierson at Rock Grotto. He has designed a power supply that has a mains transformer rather than a switch mode supply and converts AC to a variety of voltages needed for the entire range of small X-range Musical Fidelity products from V1 up to V8, V-CAN / V-DAC, the Cambridge Audio DacMagic and the ONKYO NDS1.
The original (very popular) unit was in a plastic enclosure whereas it was felt the SE model justified a more expensive anodised extrusion. The styling - black sides, silver front- reflects the house styling of Musical Fidelity a decade ago.
We gave Mike some rendered images from our Solidworks CAD system and he posted them on his blog here http://rockgrotto.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=q&action=display&thread=6464. The response was good and the first batch of psu cases has been delivered.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 9:39AM We just had a nice little order from Rooster Ignitions. They have been taking aluminium enclosures with bezels and machined end plates from us for a couple of years now. They make ignition systems for old bikes. If you go to their website you can see the customers are delighted with the performance of these elctronic systems. I can imagine they are a huge improvement on the old mechanical breaker systems. (I used to design digital ignition systems myself for Lumenition). Here it is www.roosterignitions.com
Monday, March 28, 2011 at 11:31AM We had this enquiry from a new customer today:
Dear Sirs,
I am interested in either the Uniobox or E-case ranges. Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be quite the size I require. The size I need is 120mm High x 250mm Deep x 200mm Wide.
Please can you advise if this size is possible in either range?
Yes, 120mm high is the height of our UnioBox3 electronics enclosure which is 3U high. Width and length can be anything you want with this box, which is the beauty of it.
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 5:03PM We have spent many design hours making a custom housing for a Mini-ITX computer board with assorted power supplies, hard drives and custom equipment. The customer came down and sat with us for the initial design period. Once we have got an agreed prototype then we will produce an initial batch of ten enclosures anodized and printed, fit for our customer to show to their customer.
The design space is very tight, and we are struggling to meet our customers requirements. Fortunately we have got Solidworks.
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 4:03PM I just sent an extra UnioBox base plate free of charge to Hot Head Mini Cams. Adam Rogers there came down to us for an hours design time and we designed a special box for all his video equipment. www.hotheadminicams.com
