Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar In-A-Box - Other Crafts

T TheLuckyParrot Tiki Centralite Orange County, CA. Joined: Feb 18, 2020 Posts: 66	T TheLuckyParrot Posted posted on Thu, Feb 27, 2020 8:55 AM STAGE ASSEMBLY, PART 1 Ok, welcome to modern times. Now I can start showing the regular progress on my workbench that is ongoing right now. To summarize, the three main animated feature subsystems have all been built and tested but without the lighting and audio components. The goal now is to assemble them all onto one stage that will fit into the TV cabinet and get all the wiring for the sub-systems consolidated so that everything can be cross-checked again inside the cabinet. That way I can make sure that nothing bases into anything else, and that everything is readily visible for the viewing audience. Having the electronics consolidated will also give me the entry point for my main computer controller and the WiFi stuff. This will let me then extend those to the lighting/audio. So first we go to the cabinet. Here it is again without a backing and without the speakers. It has been cleaned up inside. Now I create a base and makes sure that it fits snugly into the cabinet. This the flooring for BELOW STAGE. About 3 inches above this will be another platform that will weave between the three feature sub-systems and create the primary stage level that will get decorated, which will end up hiding all the nuts and bolts and wires, etc. This fit perfectly. The deal now is to park the three feature sub-systems onto that base and fit them into place. Once fitted, I can secure them to that base and all three should then be able to slide into and out of the cabinet with zero further fitting issues. I can then safely and easily work on the entire stage platform outside of the TV cabinet as I do the final stuff. So let's see how those three sub-systems fit onto my stage base... "Ladies and Gentlemen, for the first time ever on the same stage, I bring you...!" Ugh. Dang. They don't fit. Well, I kind of knew all along that I was going to have some fitting to be done to pack these things all up onto same platform and tuck them into the cabinet. So...yeah...I have my work cut out for me...

STAGE ASSEMBLY, PART 1

Ok, welcome to modern times. Now I can start showing the regular progress on my workbench that is ongoing right now.

To summarize, the three main animated feature subsystems have all been built and tested but without the lighting and audio components. The goal now is to assemble them all onto one stage that will fit into the TV cabinet and get all the wiring for the sub-systems consolidated so that everything can be cross-checked again inside the cabinet. That way I can make sure that nothing bases into anything else, and that everything is readily visible for the viewing audience. Having the electronics consolidated will also give me the entry point for my main computer controller and the WiFi stuff. This will let me then extend those to the lighting/audio.

So first we go to the cabinet. Here it is again without a backing and without the speakers. It has been cleaned up inside.

Now I create a base and makes sure that it fits snugly into the cabinet. This the flooring for BELOW STAGE. About 3 inches above this will be another platform that will weave between the three feature sub-systems and create the primary stage level that will get decorated, which will end up hiding all the nuts and bolts and wires, etc. This fit perfectly.

The deal now is to park the three feature sub-systems onto that base and fit them into place. Once fitted, I can secure them to that base and all three should then be able to slide into and out of the cabinet with zero further fitting issues. I can then safely and easily work on the entire stage platform outside of the TV cabinet as I do the final stuff. So let's see how those three sub-systems fit onto my stage base...

"Ladies and Gentlemen, for the first time ever on the same stage, I bring you...!"

Ugh. Dang. They don't fit.

Well, I kind of knew all along that I was going to have some fitting to be done to pack these things all up onto same platform and tuck them into the cabinet. So...yeah...I have my work cut out for me...

Post #800998 by TheLuckyParrot on Thu, Feb 27, 2020 8:55 AM