The Products Of Today's Brainstorming On Prince Lab Storage/space Use. 

Well done SEA, every point deserved. First ever.

Process shots of the group table project.

After recycle-diving in the scili for some reams: the base for the smartphone opera house, iteration two.

Day one: LED and paper project. Phone opera house, projects sound and light. Collaborator: Brian Drake (I'll miss ya buddy)

Aaron with our main beam, taped but not yet glued up. streetlightchanger

Great strides in storagability. atlasdesignstudio benbasseches bradherz pgolyski

Potential circuit for the on/off of the "smartphone opera house" lights. You could power the whole stand off of the 5V iPhone USB cable, taking a parallel path for the LEDs and the phone charger.

Dead center in the schematic is a relay that would control power to the LEDs. The relay could be pulled by some sort of signal from the iPhone's USB jack (the line coming from top left). I kind of hope that the iPhone sends some momentary Tx signal on the USB when it wakes up for an alarm but this is an assumption; its hard to find information on an Apple product. In any case, assuming some kind of transient signal could be pulled off of the iPhone the relay would be pulled closed and then self-latch, keeping the LEDs on. In order to manually turn the lights on and off, a double pole, double throw switch (ignore the SPDT label) could be used (which is shown as two separate switches, 1 and 2). To turn off the lights after the phone has turned them on you would turn the lights manually on, connecting 1 and disconnecting 2, then back to off, which would momentarily break the self-latch circuit.    

A few shots of the CNC doing its work on the plywood parts of the table.

Glue day #1: cut all the hinge components and laminated them. Hopefully they don't stick to one another. Also cut better end pieces for the beam and glued those up.

A slightly better representation of the folddown (though still missing many components). Beam (not shown) goes through the notches in the front of the side panels to hold it together. Without the beam in the top folds down against the back, then the sides fold in on top of the top. The beam reinserts into hooks on the outside of the sides to secure the flatpack.