The protection cage introduced in a previous post was just a prelude... now we have some pretty good looking slick black panels to protect the bench from dust, light and coffee spills to complete the cover... take a look (picture courtesy of Takashi):
You may notice the transparent panels on the right side of the picture: it happens fairly regularly that visitors show up in the lab and want to see what the experiment looks like. We figured that a sneaky double panel system (transparent underneath the black) would let people see the guts of SCExAO and still protect the bench from things like unsuspected screwdriver attacks.
Before we complete the enclosure (on the sides), we need to neaten all the serial and USB cables that connect to the motors, actuators and cameras mounted on the bench.
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