Today, I've been thinking about the SleepCinema design. I intended to actually model sometihng, but I didn't exactly know what to model. 

• First was TV research.
  • My plan was to have a projector, but then I put the width of 1.2m into an aspect ratio calculator and it gave me around 54 inches IIRC. 
  • Thus, I looked to see what kind of TV's you can get these days. Seems that getting a 50 inch 4K TV under £300 is doable these days, so I'll keep that option in mind.
    • I also thought all the TVs in this range (and above) had trash energy ratings, but it turns out that there's a new energy rating system and so all those A+++++'s are out.
  • I'm thinking it might be better than the loud and low rez dirt cheap projector I was planning on, but only because 4K Tv's are silent and I can still use it as a work monitor.
    • Yeah, I know it's a bad idea to work and sleep in the exact same area, but I need reasons grounded in "solid fundementals" to show to my client, Future Me.
  • My concern with the TV (and projector to an extent) is the minimum brightness level
    • All the manufacturers obviously talk about their top brightnesses and HDR, but never mention the minimum brightness for all those late night TV watchers.
      • I might just put a filter on it to reduce the brightness.
• Looking at my helper file of a virtual twin of my room, I prioritized making sure that the long sides were as short as possible. In the model, I have 30mm of clearance.
  • I'm thinking of a design that goes around the inside C of the tube and has the outside arc of the tube exposed so that the printed parts can stay flush with the outermost part of the pipe.
• Then I spent a good amount of time thinking of the design while messing around with the pipe clamps I bought months ago.
  • The Q Clamp 116 I have doesn't seem to want to clamp such that the vertical tube is plumb, so I'll have to keep that in mind. I probably should've gotten an Interclamp with the test order to see if the difference is more than just aesthetic.
    • It turns out that you can make them look really nice with a bit of polish.
    • I'll have to keep the possibility in inaccuracies in mind, though I'd like to have faith that these scaffold systems are designed so that getting them square, plumb and level is straightforward.
  • The door was the other thing to think about.
    • Whilst designing the Hexadecibel, the door was one of the trickiest things that I had to think about.
    • The requirement of these 3 sets of doors was that it had to hang off the side (partially due to SpaceApp, partially due to looking cool and inspiring) and have a sound-tight seal when closed. Oh and symmetrical.
    • The second one is kind of tricky, since I need to be able to slide the door without binding but have a seal when it closes. Thus, I was thinking of various sliding tracks and perhaps magnets to pull the door towards a gasket seal when in the closed position.
    • The symmetrical requirement caused some issues with the placement of the outside handles. I've got a design solution for that which is to make the handle look flush with the rest of the front design.
• I think I've got a good idea now of how I want the SleepCinema to be constructed and look, and will hopefully model it soon. The galvanised clamps are still a worry point.
  • I feel like my filament reserves are going to get consumed very quickly though. I hope Sunlu's white PETG looks like Yousu's because it doesn't seem like I can get the latter of ebay.co.uk anymore. 

On another note, I was expecting this log to be like 3 sentences. Truly no progress is too small to log.