Survey: small climate chamber / enclosure monitoring (bachelor thesis)
Hi everyone,
I’m a bachelor student at Vilnius Tech (Lithuania) working on my final thesis about a small climate/temperature chamber and monitoring solution that could be used with 3D printers (e.g. enclosures for materials sensitive to temperature) and other equipment.
I’m trying to better understand real user needs: – what problems you face with temperature control in enclosures or DIY setups, – what kind of monitoring / logging you actually use or miss, – which safety / UI features would make such a device really useful in everyday work.
I’ve prepared a short anonymous Google Forms survey (about 5–7 minutes). All responses will be used only in aggregated form for my bachelor’s thesis.
👉 Survey link: https://forms.gle/rWJvXD6XpzwP2QEc7
If this kind of post is not appropriate here, I apologise and the moderators can remove it. Otherwise, I’d really appreciate any input – even a few responses from experienced users help a lot to avoid designing something useless 🙂
If anyone would be interested, I can also share anonymized summary results here after I finish the survey.
Thank you!
RE: Survey: small climate chamber / enclosure monitoring (bachelor thesis)
I was at your university in 2019, nice place. Happy to fill the survey.
RE: Survey: small climate chamber / enclosure monitoring (bachelor thesis)
Thank you very much!
Happy to hear you’ve been to our university and liked it 😊
I really appreciate your time filling in the survey – your input is very helpful for my thesis.
RE: Survey: small climate chamber / enclosure monitoring (bachelor thesis)
Last week I wrapped up a fun little engineering project: building an impedance test fixture for microspeakers QC testing. After some brainstorming, I ended up combining: a few off-the-shelf parts, precise hand soldering, a CNC-machined FR4 plate for 1 mm pogo test pins and plenty of 3D-printed PLA/PETG parts with my old Prusa MK3 😊
I’m just reminding about my short survey 2 - 5 mins of your time , and I’d really appreciate your help. By participating, you’ll support ongoing research and help to build better prototype.
Survey link: https://forms.gle/rWJvXD6XpzwP2QEc7 
Thanks a lot for your time and support! 🙌
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>>real user needs
Just throwing this in, maybe useful, maybe OT. In consumer electronics testing (R&D), -40°C to +125°C span is frequently seen, possibly slightly less if it doesn't go into a car. Usually ends up with this or similar (and an earplug dispenser near the door...), or a pizza oven with integrated freezer and "Vötsch" label.
Later product qualification: add humidity to temperature plus 3..4 digit part counts tested in operation over long stretches of time such as a few weeks. Scale goes up accordingly.
RE: Survey: small climate chamber / enclosure monitoring (bachelor thesis)
Thanks, that’s very helpful context! I know the “real” R&D climate chambers run in the –40 °C to +125 °C range with humidity and lots of DUTs. My bachelor project is more of a small, affordable chamber for a SLA resin conditioning, 3D-printed part drying, long-term testing of small electronic modules (soak tests), tempering of optics and other compact materials, etc. so a much more modest setup.
From your experience, which features from those big chambers would still be must-have in a small box (e.g. simple profiles, logging, alarms) and which are overkill? If you have 5–7 minutes, your experience would be really valuable for my thesis – I’ve made a short anonymous survey here: https://forms.gle/rWJvXD6XpzwP2QEc7. Of course, no worries if you’re too busy, but I’d really appreciate it!