@th I've been watching this amazing & interesting thing come together in your posts...

Obviously you're documenting the manufacturing challenges at the moment...

But, from a position of cluelessness I've been wondering about the high level steps that allowed you to initially spec, design & build such a thing. Also what choices you made for your design and why.

That feels like a rather ambitious question for a masto toot response! Wondered if you had (or intended) a blog on that? Or maybe there's a particular so_you_want_to_know_about_orrery.org I should go look at ?

Whatevers, enjoying watching the process.