Faraday Enclosures · Open Prototypes

Silence, by
Design

Fourteen faraday enclosures built on one wrapped seam: a printed shell, your conductive fabric, a printed liner, and a lid that closes the circuit of quiet. We are prototyping in the open — the files are free, and your printer is the factory.

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The Project

Born from One
Good Seam

It begins with an honest admission: plastic does not block radio. The shielding in every enclosure here comes from a sheet of conductive fabric — and the entire design problem is holding that fabric in a closed shape with no slot for a signal to slip through. Our answer is one seam, used everywhere: the base fabric wraps up and over a printed collar, the lid fabric wraps around the lid liner's rim, and when the lid closes, fabric meets fabric twice, all the way round.

Every enclosure in the line is generated from that same parametric model — fourteen shapes, four collections, one seam. Change a clearance by a tenth of a millimetre and the whole line regenerates, re-checked by a battery of automated tests: watertight parts, zero interference, a shield that closes.

We are prototyping in the open. The print files, the drawings and the fabric patterns are free while the line matures; finished editions come later. Print one, and tell us what your printer thinks.

4
Layers in Every Wall
14
Designs, One Seam
147
Checks Before Release
Open Files
Design → Print → Test
The Line

Fourteen Enclosures

Four collections, one seam. Every design here is a printable prototype — the files are free, and each card links straight to its kit and build guide.

The Anatomy

Four Layers, One Wall

Cut any enclosure in the line through its wall and you find the same four layers, outside in. Two of them you print; one you cut from a roll; the last one pins it all in place.

The Shell

PLA or PETG · printed

The hard outside. Rolled edges, thumb scallops, a debossed wordmark, and a shiplap lip where lid meets base — with a detent bead so it closes on a click. Every shell prints flat on the bed, no supports, in whatever filament your shelf offers. PLA indoors; PETG for anything that rides in a hot car.

The Fabric

Nickel-copper ripstop · cut from the pattern

The only layer that actually shields. Conductive ripstop cuts with scissors and folds like cloth; each kit includes a cutting pattern with both blanks drawn at exact size, dart lines included. It rides up the wall, over the collar, and is pinned by the bezel — so the lid fabric and base fabric overlap all the way round.

The Liner

The clamp and the collar · printed

The hard inside. It snaps into the shell over a bead, trapping the fabric from floor to rim, and in the base it rises past the shell as a collar — the heart of the seam the whole line shares. The lid liner slides down over that collar, so closing the box is what closes the shield.

The Bezel

Rim cap and hem ring · printed

The smallest parts with the most responsibility. The rim cap presses onto the collar and pins the base fabric's folded hem; the lid bezel does the same inside the lid. No glue, no magnets, no hardware — six printed parts and a press of the thumb, and the fabric cannot creep.

Print Your Own

Maker Files

Free, print-ready 3D models for our shell-in-shell faraday enclosures. Print the hard shells, trap your conductive fabric between them, snap it together.

Every design is the same four layers: a hard shell, your faraday fabric, a hard liner, and a bezel that pins the hem. The lid liner slides over a collar on the base, so the two fabrics overlap all the way round. Each kit .zip has six STLs, the section drawing and the fabric cutting pattern. Designed for the Bambu Lab H2S (any modern printer works): 0.2mm layers, 3–4 walls, no supports.

Questions

Frequently Asked

Straight answers about printing, fabric, and what a box can and cannot do.

Reach Out

Get in Touch

Printed one? Tell us how the fits came out on your machine — that feedback is what this stage is for. And tell us which design you would buy finished, because it steers what we build first.