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Built full cardboard prototype and preliminary quotes on steel fabrication
June 2003
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Been quite a while
since my last update. Unfortunately, I don't have too much to show for the
time. Here you can see my final cardboard prototype. I built the base as
well just to check my trigonometry. You see, the top panel is suppose to
have a lean of about 6 degrees so I had to work out how big all the side
pieces need to be in order to incorporate this angle. Looks pretty good to
me, although from the front view you can see that my cardboard wasn't
quite wide enough. I knew this was the case but wasn't about to go and get
boxes that were less than 10mm wider just for this.
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Some news on the steel panel, though. I finally got some
quotes back from a couple of companies, although they aren't quite
finalised. One came in at about A$800, and that's without any sort of
painting! Luckily the other quote is less than A$200 including powder
coating so that's far better. I'm just waiting to hear back on that after
sending them images of the brackets to be attached and we'll be all set.
Unfortunately this seems to be just in time for the end of my holidays so
I'll be back to working on it during the evenings and weekends. Still, at
least that will pretty much be it. I only need to wire in the IPAC and
OptiPAC, stick the controls in and away we go. Well, I still need to work
out the electronic coin-mech but that can wait. |
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