Hardware / Industrial Design
Orpheus OS-HX Tablet
Client / Neocore Dynamics
The Orpheus OS-HX is a rugged tablet concept built for field operations, with a reinforced chassis, sealed edge connectors, and a matte enclosure designed to read as durable rather than consumer-grade.
Array Design Studio developed a full render set covering primary product angles and paired-unit detail, alongside a sub-concept of its own: the ARC Identification Module, a physical security card rendered from ejection shot through to full card detail.
- Platform
- OS-HX-VM 3.12.7 (LTS)
- Deliverables
- 3D Model Generation, Texturing, Static Renders, Detail Graphics
- Focus
- Rugged enclosure detailing
The Orpheus Concept
The Orpheus OS-HX tablet was developed as a companion piece to the Vega-Class Modular Reactor: a second concept built to carry the same product ecosystem from a fixed installation into something an operator could take into the field.
Where the Vega unit's design language had to read as fixed infrastructure, Orpheus had to read as something carried, dropped, and trusted in the field. The brief called for a reinforced chassis, sealed edge connectors, and a matte enclosure finish that photographs as durable rather than consumer-grade, closer to rugged survey equipment than a tablet off a shelf.
The interface itself was designed to share a visual language with the Vega control panel, so the two concepts read as one coherent product ecosystem rather than two unrelated pieces of hardware.
That ecosystem thinking led to a small sub-project of its own: the ARC Identification Module, a physical security card that ejects from a slot in the tablet's chassis to authenticate an operator before the device will unlock. Rendered as its own object, front and back, ARC gave the concept a piece of tactile, believable security hardware rather than a purely software gesture, right down to its own certification marks and warning labels.
The final render set moved from clean top-down product shots through to paired-unit detail, finishing with the ARC module itself, ejecting from the chassis and laid flat to show its full identification markings.
Behind the project
The Brief
A self-initiated companion piece to the Vega platform: a field terminal that needed to feel like durable operational hardware, not consumer tech.
Industrial Design
Chassis, port layout, and sealed connector detailing developed from concept sketch through to a production-ready hard-surface model.
Material & Finish Study
A matte enclosure and rubberised edge detailing tuned in render until the surface read as tactile, not plastic.
UI & Interface Design
OS-HX screen graphics designed to carry the same visual language as the Vega control panel, tying the two concepts together.
Studio Lighting & Render
A shared lighting and material setup carried across every hero, angled, and close-up render for a consistent finish.
ARC Identification Module
A physical security card sub-concept, modelled and rendered in its own right, from chassis-eject shot through to full front and back card detail.
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