This prototype pod was developed and assembled in my apartment at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. We were working with a team in China and needed to demonstrate the feasibility of our design, including battery power and optical design.
The pod featured a red and IR laser which combined light into a single fiber through one of our patented method. Additionally, this pod featured a PCB, designed and assembled by me, which included a microcontroller that I also programmed. This actually required a separate programming and laser mounting board to minimize the size of the pod, a huge objective of the development at this point.

One working model of the pod was shipped to our team in China to help with their understanding and initial development work.