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Yes - in a brilliant piece of negotiation I'm moving a couple of rooms about. I'm moving Chris into this smaller room (prising an 8yo from his "Master" bedroom?? That's Mr Silvertongue the Wonderdog to you!) and as long as I put some storage cupboards underneath it I'll be allowed to set up a permanent track in the "office".
I've been pouring the midnight oil into these plans. I've spent the best part of three days futzing about on tracker and making excited scribblings trying to get the best possible use out of the space available. I'm a very excited puppy at the moment..
As with anything else I've tried to design you can see my distaste for parallel lines.. I feel this makes a more "realistic" looking circuit.
I've tried to design it to get a balance between simplicity for the kids and something more interesting for the adults. I think I've got that by running the circuit in opposite directions but won't know until I've had a good play.
In the design, the green "table" bits are three foot wide. The room is Twelve foot by Ten in total.
The "arms" where I'll put the cupboards give me three 3 foot cupboards down one side and a four foot cupboard down the other. Have no idea where to get / how to build those yet but I'll figure that out as I go.
The short arm gives me room to put the Computer desk and a filing cabinet down the side of the room.
In the corner, the crossover pieces show where I'm going to put the monitor for the other computer. I'll use this to run the timing software when I get myself better organised. The start finish will be over on the long straight so I'll be able to get a light bridge thing in there. A large window also runs two thirds of the way down the "long arm" wall so I should have fair light.
In the crook of the arms I need to figure out how I can fit a small slide out shelf for the computer Keyboard, and a full width (four foot) fold out surface to use as a workbench. Imagine that - sitting at your workbench with your circuit wrapped around you like a coccoon..

I've been pouring the midnight oil into these plans. I've spent the best part of three days futzing about on tracker and making excited scribblings trying to get the best possible use out of the space available. I'm a very excited puppy at the moment..

As with anything else I've tried to design you can see my distaste for parallel lines.. I feel this makes a more "realistic" looking circuit.
I've tried to design it to get a balance between simplicity for the kids and something more interesting for the adults. I think I've got that by running the circuit in opposite directions but won't know until I've had a good play.
In the design, the green "table" bits are three foot wide. The room is Twelve foot by Ten in total.
The "arms" where I'll put the cupboards give me three 3 foot cupboards down one side and a four foot cupboard down the other. Have no idea where to get / how to build those yet but I'll figure that out as I go.
The short arm gives me room to put the Computer desk and a filing cabinet down the side of the room.
In the corner, the crossover pieces show where I'm going to put the monitor for the other computer. I'll use this to run the timing software when I get myself better organised. The start finish will be over on the long straight so I'll be able to get a light bridge thing in there. A large window also runs two thirds of the way down the "long arm" wall so I should have fair light.
In the crook of the arms I need to figure out how I can fit a small slide out shelf for the computer Keyboard, and a full width (four foot) fold out surface to use as a workbench. Imagine that - sitting at your workbench with your circuit wrapped around you like a coccoon..
