Saturday, November 12, 2011

Freespace Cockpit start

So Ive finially gotten around to starting the Freespace Cockpit.  Ive grabbed some sheet metal, some offcut MDF from work (they were throwing out like $300 bucks worth of offcut sheets) and some spade bits for my drill.

So after the plannin stages of what dials and buttons would go where, i got started marking and drilling the holes from my plans.  Ive marked out the targeting array of buttons (The biggsest set ill have) and got to it.  As the steel can be wobbly when pressed in the middle, ive planned to have MDF backing behind it to increase its rigidity.  Unfortunatly, i cant just put the buttons into the MDF as many of them have only a 3-4mm shank length.


Topside view of the targeting array, with a few buttons put into it.

Into the backing MDF i drilled holes larger than the steel, to provide wriggle room for getting wires in.


Top sheet folded up and away to show holes drilled into MDF.