I can't just stand there and watch Alex doing his magic on the bits and bytes, so I'm thinking of some king of enclosure for the locator.

• It must be small enough to be able to fit in small drones.
• It must be big enough to accommodate a 100-200mA LiPo cell and some kind of connector.
• It needs a transparent window, to be able to see the charging and the alive leds.
• The button needs a plunger.
• It will be 3D printed ! At the workplace, we have a Stratasys 260 UV-cured inkjet printer that sits around all day. The raw enclosure will be black, as this is the only ink available right now on the printer.

We modified some high end machine vision cameras for some customer and we have salvaged some nice connectors. It turns out that Hirose HR10A 12 pins circular connectors are fairly common, and not exaggeratedly expensive. I have two pairs lying around. Here are some close-ups:

It looks and feels too god to let go.

I started SolidWorks-ing an enclosure. It's work in progress, so don't jump to conclusions.

The round hole at the top is for the button plunger and the one on the wall is for the HR10A panel connector. Still a lot to be done...