[X] My Assistant

[djellison]

Well - it's getting there - it's up, and I've started fitting it out inside. First step was the floor. A waterproof membrane on it, and then extra floor boarding over the top of that to strengthen it all a fair bit. Next up - extra battons in the ceiling and the corners of the walls to accept the wall material ( whatever that may be - Gypboard, Plasterboard, Plywood....don't know yet. ) - and then insulation over all interior surfaces.

I'm thinking of making faux-double glazing with some plastic as an inner window, just to eliminate the chance of condensation inside.

If I could - I'd keep it like this as it looks so damn cool Like the inside of a spacecraft under construction....but I'll be boarding over all the cool insulation in the next couple of weeks. I'm going to run power and networking through there first. Wireless just isn't fast enough for my liking - particularly when the words RAID FIVE NAS come into play as they will do eventually.

As for the floor - it's going to get carpet tiles ( cheap, robust, replaceable when I drop a soldering iron or something ) - but I think I'm going to put some insulation down there first, not quite sure what yet though.

Doug

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[centsworth_II]

I just had to show that picture to my wife. I have the same chair piled high with the same variety of tools and material in my shed!

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Hope it's meteorite-proof ... of course You all saw the news item of a meteorite striking a shed near Bochum in Germany

[djellison]

Well - technically, the second layer of insulation for the ceiling ( with a gap ) is a primative whipple shield

And yes - I think every red blooded, power tool owning male has 'the chair' which acts as tool box, work jig, step ladder, heavy weight, tea-mug stand, and....chair. It needs two paint splashes, a drop of expaning foam, one large dent and a couple of "oops - drilled too far" holes.

No one spotted the obvious mistake.....I've added some more batons tonight, there was nowhere for the panels that make up the far wall to screw in to at the top between the upright batons.....so I've added a few new extra battons

Doug

[ngunn]

batons.....so I've added a few new extra battons

Doug

Battons . . batons . . battens . . buttons ???

[djellison]

I'll just call them Jenson's.



Doug

[edstrick]

"Hope it's meteorite-proof ... of course You all saw the news item of a meteorite striking a shed near Bochum in Germany "

Actually, it's more likely to get hit by "blue ice" off an airplane.
Remember. You can't live forever. If nothing else gets you, eventually the blue ice will.

[tasp]

Anyone have a spare stasis box? Good place to put back-up discs.

{sorry, you can't have mine, it is where I keep my emergency back-up chocolate glazed doughnut}

[nprev]

Doug, do you ever sleep? I can't believe you have the time and energy to run this forum, work, glog, do family stuff AND build HQ UMSF. Where'd you get the clones? (I could use a few myself!)

[djellison]

Well - I'm currently sat on a nice black office chair about 18 inches above the yellow handled shovel
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&id=7174
Just about where this chair is - http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&id=8154

but inside a completed shedoffice. Walls are up, painted 'pecan' (Mars Sky if you ask me) - carpet down, some posters up, cool halogen lights up, shelving in place, made my own desk to fit (of which I'm very proud) - blind, Pathfinder blueprints across the ceiling, Pioneer Plaque on one wall, and the £1 Ikea clock that I sprayed and printed a custom face for to look like the tacho from a Lotus 49B F1 car from 1968 ....all sorted

The wireless network wouldn't quite reach, so I ran a network cable around the inside of the shed when boarding it up - through the old brick shed, through the garage, down the side of the house and into the front of the house where the phone and sat-tv go, and into the back of the wireless router.

And this is the first post to UMSF made from the shed, down that cable....it's a 100m roll, of which only about 30 is being used - the rest rolled up in various places in case I had to chop and re-run the cable because of a breakage etc - but thankfully - it worked first time...just crimped the connector on the shed end and it works..YAY!!!

Every time I walk in here, I get a glance of some paw prints that Suzi left just after the concrete started to set. I hoped that she would join me in here from time to time, but it was not to be - a picture of Suzi rock will certainly be going on the wall soon. Perhaps Gizmo - our new cat that we've had just a few weeks - will pay me a visit once she's settled into her new home a little more

Pictures tomorrow!

Doug

[nprev]

Hey, congrats! Give all them clones of yours the night off & a few quid for the local pub, man; they earned it!

[djellison]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doug_ellison_...005564148/show/

Not all setup - but 99% of my crap's in there now I've tried to keep it mainly space in there, but some motorsport crept in in the form of a few 1:43rd models, a few pictures and a large 'rasterbated' image of Button I printed out last year. In my old 'in the house' office, I had a rig for driving racing sims (racing seat, pedals, wheel etc ) but I've had to give that up due to time issues ( couldn't find a clone to keep on racing ) - and the rig's going on ebay. Hanging on the bottom right corner of the large West Spur pan print is a little round piece of metal - that's actually a piece of ballast from the bottom of the Renault F1 car that Jenson Button used to drive before he joined BAR / Honda.

No prizes for spotting the ultra-Full Moon fan status of having the large and the small hard backs on the shelf

Doug

[Nix]

It looks very cosy Doug. I noticed the big clock.. does Helen track time or do you get to stay there for as long as you like at night?

We're moving to a new home next May and I'll finally have an 'office' then rather than seated in the middle of the livingroom. Seeing your pictures I'm thinking the garage might be an option too. Hmm.

Good job -got recent outside pictures?

Nico

[nprev]

Nice, Doug! The apartment my girlfriend & I share isn't much bigger (600 ft^2)... wanna fly to LA & help me knock down a few walls?

[Mongo]

Nice, Doug! The apartment my girlfriend & I share isn't much bigger (600 ft^2)... wanna fly to LA & help me knock down a few walls?

But...you're a robot! I thought that you slept in a closet at the Robot Arms, dreaming about someday 'killing all humans'?

Bill