I think you’re right, and there are plenty reasons it would be nice to isolate the microscope from the electronics. I’d favour a single box that houses both electronics and microscope, but with the microscope sitting on some sort of vibration isolator (sorbothane/whatever). That’s likely more robust than two boxes I think. On the other hand, really good isolation probably needs additional mass, so that solution might become big and heavy… @j.stirling posted a box design a while back, it didn’t include isolators but we’d certainly like it to.