Thanks for the comments Guys.

Nat: Your optical drive butt-stealthing method is brilliant - well done!


Project Update: Daniel's murderbox is finished.

Now I'm waiting on the weather to take some decent pics. I got up at 5:30AM this morning - hoping for a nice sunrise but alas I was denied. My next window of opportunity is tonight at sunset. Of course as I sit here now, the sun has broken through the clouds and is mocking me. Unfortunately, it's already too high in the sky for my purposes.

The other challenge will be night shots - this may take a bit more effort but I'll work on it during the week. It's not that I'm looking to do anything fancy really; I just want to attempt to capture how the machine looks in person - sometimes this is more difficult than one anticipates.

The other thing that needs to happen this week is to sort out the shipping and more importantly, the handling of this beast. I'm thinking gyroscopic gimbal or possibly a portable zero-g box that the machine will be tethered in. There's always the teleporter as a backup plan... I'll keep you guys posted as to the method we go with. In any event, the plan is to ship the machine out to Daniel in Frankfurt at the end of June.

My next update will hopefully have some pics. I imagine that if it doesn't, my welcome here will soon run out.