About CircuitShell

Better tools and better parts have made circuit design progressively easier, but it still can take as long to design an enclosure as it does to design the circuit. I wanted a quick, easy, interchangeable, and reusable enclosure for the prototype, one-off, and low volume designs that made up the bulk of my work. An enclosure of this type seemed so obvious that I waited years for the enclosure manufacturers to simply start making it. When that never happened, I realized that if I was going to have this enclosure I would have to make it myself. I received US Patent 6858801 for the CircuitShell concept in the spring of 2005 and completed the first injection mold later that year. The CircuitShell Enclosure is now here—at last. I have enjoyed designing the GPC1 Controller to share with you as the first application using the CircuitShell Enclosure, and I look forward to hearing about your own designs and applications.

Thank you,

Tom Brown, founder