Thread: Small paid project for your son/daughter or you

G'day all. Hope it's ok to post this kind of request here.

I'm looking for someone in Sydney who can help me finish a prototype and then make the real thing.

It's a 60cm x 60cm x 5.5cm box with a hinged lid. It is supposed to sit on an ordinary desk, inclined at 65 degrees. The bottom of the box is supposed to hang over the edge of the desk by 10cm. There is an iPad-sized hole cut into the lid. When in the box, the iPad's screen lies just below the surface of the closed lid. One of the sides of the box has a hole for cables to pass through.

The whole idea is to make it easier to write/draw on the screen of the iPad with the aid of a perspex "bridge" that spans the screen, thus allowing me to rest my hand on it as I write/draw on the screen without making extra marks. The box has to be deep enough to store power-cable etc. It would be great if there were yet another lid that could be closed over the top of the top of the box, thus locking the iPad in place.

The prototype is almost finished but is the work of two unskilled drunken fools. All it needs is to have is an iPad-sized rectangle cut out of a 60cm x 60cm sheet of plywood. It also needs to have the hinges for the lid screwed in and perhaps some method for propping it up at an angle, approx 65 degrees (but box must hang over edge of supporting desk by 10cm). The second lid is just an idea at the moment.

I can post photos later, if my description is not clear. This contraption is not meant to be portable.


I would like to

1) Have the prototype finished so I can use it at home. This thing doesn't need the extra lid. Nor does it have to be particularly beautiful.

2) Have another, more smick version of this "table" that I can use in the classroom (I'm a teacher). It has to look reasonably good lest I suffer cruel taunts and mockery from my students. They're a bit like that. This thing will need the extra locking lid.

3) Have something else made: a shallow five-sided box that acts as a sleeve for the iPad for when it's in a crowded backpack.


I can supply the materials and unskilled labour. I've used plywood in the prototype, but I don't really care what wood is used or whether it is stained/polished or whatever. I am open to all suggestions regarding design and aesthetics, but money is something of a limiting factor.

I am in Sydney's inner-west. I'd like to have this all sorted by 28/1/11 if possible.

You could give me a quote and we could then discuss payment options (eg, 50% cash up front, 50% cash on completion. Or something).

Please PM or email me for discussion.

Cheers

Mark (no tools, no skills, no contacts)