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How to Build a Rump-Shakin’ Riser – Part 2

// February 9th, 2011 // construction

In our last episode, our fearless Digital Pimp was about to embark on his most dangerous mission yet—building a rump shakin’ seating platform for CribMac 2.0. But unlike some feckless villain, endlessly monologuing about the plan, I actually made a plan.

It started with a basic question. How big does this thing need to be?

You can download the final riser plan here.

For that, you have to know what size seats are when they are fully extended. Add about a foot to that distance to allow people to walk in front of the seats while they are fully extended (you know, for those inevitable nature breaks or snack runs). Then you have it that depth nailed.

As for the width, I only needed to allow for a few extra inches on either side. Didn’t want to make it too wide or I’d lose space to walk on both sides. So, I took the overall width of the seats, added 12 inches, and locked down the width.

Tale of the tape? 114″ x 84″, or 9′-6″ x 7′-0″.

Then it hit me. This is gonna be one big motherfracker. How the hell am I going to build it and get it in the doors?

Well, no matter how powerful the ‘Pimp is, no way that would work. Didn’t have transdimensional powers to move it into the room after it was build; well, not until I build this sucka, that is.

So, I had to build it in the room.

Just to be sure this would all work out fine, I put tape marks on the floor to figure out the placement. Keep in mind, I still had to reserve room in the front of the platform for the two other seats. So it was important to know the size but also the position of the platform.

After taping all this out, one thing was sure. If i wanted to keep the front row users from kissing the screen, I would have to deal with the doors. The doors opened in, and I couldn’t afford to lose 3 feet of space to accommodate the doors.

Craptastic. Just what I need. Another project. More on that ordeal later. Anywho, now that the size is locked in, time to go shopping. In our next episode, we’ll make some acoustic alchemy with a change to the basic design.

So far, so good. What do you think? Holla back (that’s Pimp-speak for “leave me a comment”).

Geez. Squaresville, man.

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