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Interview with Heath Whitaker - Concept Development Director

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BS. In what way would you say they're better?

HW. Oh they're technically far more able. The phase 2 design style, if you look at it you can see how we've made things out of sheets meeting at 90 degrees so that you don't have to finish the edges or, well Now with the designs that Mike Allan has done for phase 2, if the things don't meet exactly you get a line and it, looks horrible. So the technical ability in the woodworking, the metalworking, plastics work, the type of electronics we do now has, yeah, has moved with the time, and with the, the way in which we do things. It was perfectly alright for me to reach behind my desk at the university, pull out a parabolic mirror, put it on a A-Frame and stick it out in Techniquest and everybody thought it was great, in phase 1. If we put it out there now, you know, they'd recognise it for a piece of old junk pulled from behind my desk. So, there is a, a, a real change in quality. That's important because we want to give people a quality experience for asking them to pay a not inconsiderable amount of money to come in here. So you want to give them something that's quality. At the same time you want it to be accessible.