The Deconstruction Continues

I pretty much finished deconstructing the old television for my Zeniquarium (though the idea of owning fish has not grown on me at all), and now its time for fitting, in fact I’m just kind of wasting time here at home in anticipation of driving to an aquarium store in Shoreline to go look for some tanks that might fit inside of it.

The next step is bringing it to a place with power tools, or perhaps even renting my own, in order to create a hinged top. I’m also considering attaching some castors to the bottom in order to move the heavy bastard around. It’s already pretty goddamned heavy on its own, owing to its solid early-80s construction, I figured it would be far less heavy sans tube, but its still got some heft, and I’ll probably need a bit of a hand getting it into my car and getting it over to the aquarium store. I’ve sort of resigned myself to probably needing a custom tank, but maybe I’ll find something close to the 26×16x16 tank I’m looking for. (In doing some quick research, its fairly close to a standard 20 gallon tank, so that’s good.)

In lieu of fish, Troy suggested that perhaps I come up with some sort of action figure battle scenario inside, which I’m pretty sure would include dinosaurs vs. robots. I could also probably get some kind of reptile, but that just seems destined to be cat food.

The final step will be to create a remote controlled lighting system, either something I figure out and wire up, or maybe just a remote controlled power strip. I removed the old IR sensor today, not sure if I could easily repurpose that or not, so I’l have to do some reasearch before I can finish.

It feels pretty good to be finally putting a project together I’ve been talking about for almost 10 years (Though to be fair to my laziness, I had to wait 7 years for the TV to die.)

I’m hoping this thing gives me a bit of momentum to get into some other projects I’ve got in the hopper, I’ll post more on them later.