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The following is a visual history of the evolution of the enclosure’s design.
The M!nder’s apparent simplicity hides a deeply complex creation. Given time and lawyer-money, at least a dozen patents could be issued for this invention.
But, firmware engineering is invisible work. It hides within chips unseen, deep within a device often, too, unseen–somewhere in the electronic back-of-beyond!
While work such as maintaining a metropolis’s sewer system is equally valuable, depended upon, and unseen, an ordinary person has a general sense of what may be involved. It is tangible.
Firmware, and the works it depends upon, are intangible, invisible work. It takes four years, at the university level, typically in an electrical engineering program, to begin to comprehend it. Most programmers and “I.T.” people have not worked in it, and would struggle to explain it.
The following was hoped to serve as an attempt to convey the tip of that iceberg, in a way more tangible to the users of the M!nder. But, it may, at best, convey a sense of a design process that results in a deceptively simple design.
