Work did slow greatly with Paul out of town much of last week/weekend. We're at the point where we either need his electronics expertise or two sets of hands to complete most tasks. We've still made progress, see pictures.
Mounted the motor into place. This took a while to get all lined up and everything, but it fits well and works great. PS, I'm too lazy to rotate that picture 90 deg clockwise, but imagine it. When driven, the motor pulls down on the rod long enough to pull the pins and release the sliders. It is then returned to the up position.
This is what the inner part of the table looks like. Our initials spell out an acronym which is so nerdy I can't even come to say it here. After finishing the letters (which Paul beautifully painted by hand), we have applied many layers of polyurethane finish to give it water proof (and shiny!) protection.
We also are in the process of adding oak tops to our sliders. This will make them look a lot nicer, and also bring the slider surface closer to the bottom of the table. We've been debating what to put on the sliders, here is a short list of ideas: painting swords/dragons/shields/other cool round table junk, staining to look like top surface, allowing people to paint random shit on there when they come over, hobbes references or anything else. Thoughts?
Much of the work has been on getting the electronics up and running. We're getting it all wired on protoboards before making anything permanent, and we've made good progress. Just hammering out small issues with the code now.
Paul said he'd post the code at some point, stay tuned. Also, if you know of where we could score some cheap rings, let me know.
1 comment:
i vote for hobbes' paw prints on the sliders. or you could just leave them blank for now and wait until andrew/alan/paul drunkenly shave hobbes and then glue all his hair to the sliders.
also, what is the acronym?!
also also, pretty wires!!
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