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ALT A photograph of one of the hackspace whiteboards with preliminary sketches of the panels, how they might be arranged and a prototype of the sketch of the support frame.
ALT A cad model of the hand controller unit shell. It looks like the bottom half of a GameBoy which has been roughly cut at an angle of about 45 degrees just above the "+" joypad button up towards the top left. The cut "face" has a computer generated surface that looks a bit like a stone has fractured in to a rough faceted surface.
ALT The assembly takes shape. This image is in the hackspace workshop area. There are lot of benches and tools in the background. In the foreground is the Bosch strut aluminium spar frame. The bottom hafl, up to where the screen will be installed is cald in white panels. There is a cutout for the joypad and the large black joupad is patrialliy installed. on the blue tiled floor, to the bottom right of the fram and panels the two round buttons sit on the floor ready to be installed.
ALT The joypad button, which is about 500mm square, and the two round buttons sit on an old cardboard box in a garage and are painted in grey primer. A paintbrush loaded with grey paint sits to one side. In the background is an assortment of bicycles, trugs and other domestic garage contents.
ALT Circular stitched pattern that looks like a flower, stitched with white thread on a blue felt background.
ALT A woman in a blue ESA boilersuit floats inside a parabolic flight plane, with a number of other trainee astronauts in similar outfits behind her
