Owing to the outbreak of Covid-19 the University has, unsurprisingly, shut down the student Maker space, which was where I had intended to produce the majority of my components... Starting today.

Though I have the option of moving to a more design and analysis based project I'd really prefer not to because I really want to make that ball spin (dammit!).

I have contacted the Makerspaces in and around Sheffield and there seem to be two (AccessSpace and Sheffield Makerspace) that seem like busy hubs of innovation. Perfect!

I have also contacted a laser cutting company such that I can produce some of my parts. Unfortunately they do seem to want to charge about £100 for the work, which is quite a lot all things considering that my budget is supposed to be £200 (And i think i've already gone over (lol) ). Could be worse I suppose.

We'll see what the Maker spaces have access to in terms of facilities etc. and go from there.