◤ Enclosure · Sleds · Print Files ◥
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The enclosure our own fleet runs in, the radio sleds that fit it, and the files to print your own. Made to order in Florida.
Made to order in Florida · Ships in 5 business days · Free shipping over $70
◤ Enclosure · Sleds · Print Files ◥
The enclosure our own fleet runs in, the radio sleds that fit it, and the files to print your own. Made to order in Florida.
Made to order in Florida · Ships in 5 business days · Free shipping over $70
◤ Enclosure
$66 Sleeve + sled + plate
A black-anodized aluminum sleeve capped with two printed end caps, each with its TPU seal printed into it in place. Ships with the full-capability sled: two USB-C bulkheads, an M12 port for Ethernet, three SMA antenna ports, and an internal space for a 6 × 6 × 20 mm active GPS patch antenna.
In the box: the aluminum sleeve; the full-capability radio sled, PETG with bonded TPU seal (three SMA, two USB-C, M12, internal GPS nest); the bottom plate, PETG with bonded TPU seal; screws (M3 × 14 mm sled, M3 × 10 mm plate, M2.5 Pi mounting). Weight 12 oz.
Not in the box: the electronics, connectors and antennas. You add three SMA bulkheads, two USB-C panel-mount couplers, one M12 8-pin panel bulkhead and a ceramic GPS patch antenna, all standard parts. Full parts list with buy links on the build page.
Fits: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, Seeed WM1302 HAT with the WM6108 HaLow module, PiSugar 3 Plus, a pouch battery up to 60 × 110 × 13 mm. The Pi and HAT screw to the sled on the standard 49 × 58 mm pattern; the spine holds a Heltec V3 LoRa board; a 2.4 GHz USB radio reaches its antenna through the third SMA. Not a general-purpose Pi case.
Not running a 2.4 GHz radio? That third SMA takes an external GPS antenna instead. Want a different sled layout in the box? Say which one in the order note at checkout, or order it on its own below.
Assembled about 136 × 70 × 46 mm, antennas excluded. Sealed at both caps against rain, sweat and spray; not for submersion, and we do not quote an IP rating we have not tested. Black aluminum in direct sun gets hot, like any black radio.
Face of the selected layout
◤ End cap · printed to order
$22 Any of 56 layouts
Want to try a different antenna or port layout and don't have your own 3D printer? We will print the sled for you. Printed in PETG with the print-in-place TPU seal. Select your layout from the dropdown, purchase, and we start printing right away. Made to order.
Every sled except the blank has the USB-C charging bulkhead. Layouts with a third SMA are for a 2.4 GHz radio; "internal GPS" nests the GPS antenna behind a window instead of an SMA on the face.
In the box: one radio sled in your chosen layout, PETG with bonded TPU 95A seal. Weight 6 oz.
Not in the box: screws (the sled takes four M3 × 14 mm, which come with the Cicada Shell), the connectors and antennas, the sleeve and the bottom plate.
Antennas is the bulkhead set on the face: both SMA (the fleet standard, and what the Cicada Shell ships with), HaLow on BNC with LoRa on SMA, both BNC, HaLow only on BNC or on SMA for a node without a LoRa radio, or a blank face to cut your own. Ports is the data-port row: nothing, one or two M8, an M12 Ethernet, M8 + M12, two USB-C, or the full rows with two USB-C and an M12 between them. Only the combinations that exist are listed.
56 layouts × two enclosures
◤ Digital download
$33 Print files · no shipping
Two complete enclosures, one download. Print files for the Cicada Shell's aluminum end caps and for a fully printable housing that needs no aluminum sleeve — the same 56 sled layouts for each, 112 in total, across six antenna families plus a blank. Both sled seals and bottom plates included, each bottom in two versions: bored for the power button, or filled solid. Print a different port layout later, reprint when your connectors change, print spares for the nodes you build for your team.
What you need: a printer that handles TPU 95A for the seals (direct-drive extruders do; Bowden setups fight it) and PETG for the sled and plate. On a single-nozzle machine the seals print as separate drop-on gaskets. The bonded, printed-in-place seal on the caps we ship needs a dual-nozzle printer.
License: personal use. Print as many copies as you want for yourself and for the people you build nodes for, and modify the files freely. No redistribution of the files, original or modified, and no selling prints. Want to do more than that? Ask us at info@cicadatak.com. The files are provided as is; the seals are water-ingress parts on a body-worn device, so validate your own prints before trusting them.
Coming Soon
Photographed when the first batch is built
◤ Node · pre-assembled up to the radios
A CicadaTAK node built up to the radios: sled mounted, wiring done, firmware flashed. You add two boards with a screwdriver. No soldering, no crimping, no command line.
First-batch pricing announced soon. It lands here as a product when orders open.
Prices in US dollars. Florida sales tax is added at checkout where it applies. The STL Suite is a digital product: no shipping, delivered as a download link after checkout, personal-use license.
Made to order means no refunds. Digital files and printed parts are not refundable or returnable; a part that arrives damaged or defective is replaced. A defective Builder Kit is exchanged on return of the unit. The full refund, shipping, privacy and terms policies are linked at checkout.
The enclosure is a passive part. Nothing in it transmits. The radios you put in it are your own build; see the build page for the parts list and the Field Guide for setup. A CicadaTAK node runs the US or the Australian plan; see the support page for which countries that covers.
Questions before you order: info@cicadatak.com.