International Travel

Rockets: check
Computer: check
Hat full of underpants: check.

Well I'm packed and ready to go...

Bedroom ceiling TV computer

I found an LCD TV on hard rubbish, including the remote in the pile. It even had batteries and works perfectly fine. It's 720p, so 1080i, but that's OK...free. Naturally I had a spare computer kicking around and decided to mount it and the TV on the ceiling above the bed for some advanced Netflix viewing.

No pic of the computer mounted up there, but it's all set up now and works fine. I'll run cables through the roof some time this weekend.

Fence palings I found on hard rubbish. They serve to suspend some 150mm M8 galvanised bolts and displace the load across a few ceiling rafters.

Bolts through the plasterboard.

Some 30x30mm framework scavenged from our customer-returns junk pile at work. Spray painted it black to hide misc damage and scratches.

Desktop power cord management hole.

Frame mounted to the ceiling. Cavity up top is for the computer.

Blue 3mm acrylic panel for the PC to sit on.

Standard 100mm x 100mm spacing VESA monitor mount made from some 6mm polycarbonate panel.

Monitor hung and mounted on a hinged arrangement, tilted slightly towards the viewing zone. :)

"Double Rainbow...all the way..."

Mt. Buller (one of the local snow/ski destinations during the winter) had bush fires, evacuations, and a record high temperature yesterday. Today it snowed there months before the regular snow season.

We got a sun shower and a nice rainbow.

Months ago I traced the roof arc of the van onto a board. Today I finally transposed the shape to a piece of coreflute so I could fine-tune the shape and be sure it was OK. Ultimately this will be a shape template for some new roof support struts when I raise the roof of the van.

I got it pretty spot-on, but the back of the van where I traced it is approx ~30mm narrower than the font of the van. Didn't realise 'till test fitting the piece. Oh well, more work for later.