I’ve been roaring away on various projects this week, chief among them of course the groovik’s cube. I’ve made a couple of minor changes to the dimmer code, but mostly I’ve been helping sew fabric panels. We’re using white ripstop nylon squares for the projection screens, with long strips of black lycra to divide them. As with anything on this project, each individual piece may not be a big deal but when you have to cut, pin, and sew forty or fifty of them even something simple takes a long time. And this isn’t really simple: we are sewing heavy-duty velcro onto ripstop nylon and spandex! This could only be more annoying if we had somehow involved silk or faux-fur.

Also finished re-engineering my bed frame. It’s a simple platform bed; I picked up a headboard a while back which has been sitting between the bed frame and the wall, looking pretty but not actually attached to the bed at all. This is awkward, because the bed frame tends to slide away from the wall if you sit up and lean against the headboard, and because there’s a large gap which eats pillows. I finally decided to do something about this. The bed frame’s bolt pattern is not even close to compatible with the headboard, so I cut a 1×6 oak plank to match the frame’s width, finished it to match the headboard, drilled some holes and installed T-nuts, then bolted the whole thing together. Simple project, but satisfying, and now I can use the headboard as a back rest when reading in bed.

Today I am reorganizing my studio space – I picked up a third work table. This one will become my “dirty bench”, and the current (slightly smaller) table it replaces will move over by the window and become a music station, holding my keyboard and DJ rig.