Key points
- Jason Gillham, CTO/COO and co-founder of Impossible Metals, demonstrates a wooden mockup of the Eureka III system built to test hardware design decisions before finalizing them.
- The mockup’s main box represents a hopper with battery compartments, with a distribution box mounted at the top.
- The team uses string on the physical mockup to work out cable routing and connections, making final decisions on cable links rather than relying solely on CAD models.
- Gillham says the hands-on approach reflects a test early, test often philosophy aimed at reducing uncertainty and validating design assumptions.
