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"Yay, it works. Mission accomplished! Get back to sleep!"

my wife said.

"Wait, what about build manuals, documentation and high resolution assembly illustrations in open hardware projects?"

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Well folks, documented it shall be then :)

I already spend a lot of time of putting together build manual imagery and text, and it's still just only about 10% complete or so. Even though a real hacker could probably put it together easily from the DXF files in the github repository plus the pictures and descriptions from the blog, making this available to everybody still requires some work.

In the end, there will be a fully complete BOM including every single screw, nut, washer, cable tie and everything else you need to build a real Hoverlay for your home, school or small business. Along with that, detailed schematics and pictures will guide you through the build process until you power it up for the first time.

Below you see some wireframe models that have been edited in Illustrator to simplify them down for use in an instruction and build manual. This serves as some kind of raw-material in the further process of creating the manuals. Making those graphics is lots of hand-work in addition to bare rendering, but seems a good compromise between to-scale accuracy and understandable imagery.

One of the first things I was working on is the assembly of the seamless power connectors. This can be tricky, requires some tiny parts and is not necessarily self-explaining. The picture below is not a final, but already helps you out if you were in trouble at this step. Please excuse the weird nuts that I forgot to render.

Of course, more graphics and explanations will follow to help you understand how all the other parts work together. The next thing on my list is creating some graphics for how the parts of the housing are put together.

Since I am working on this while I am currently writing my master thesis on video streaming platform development here at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, a complete build manual here or on my blog should not be expected right tomorrow :)

That said: It's never to early to build a Hoverlay :) If something's unclear, just put your question in the comments.

Thanks for reading!