| Z-Borg is a Rhombic Triacontahedron, made from 30 rhombic polygon faces.
It is also known as a Zonohedron because within its geometry is the
Icosahedron and the Pentagonal Dodecahedron.
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| For Z-Borg each rhombic polygon was made from 2 tricore tiles.
The width of the tricores are slightly less than the proper width
of a rhombic polygon so brass spacers were used to make up for this.
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| Each input,output, and bias point, has two machined pins for connections
to other tiles. 30(rhombics) x 2(tricores) x 18 = 1080 machined pins.
Plus a few extra pins for Gnd and V+.
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| Z-Borg had to be built in three sections in order to remove it from the
form before final assembly. Also, all V+ connections had to be jumpered
to distribute the power around the Borg. |
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| The final assembly went very smooth, everything lined up near-perfect.
The brass spacers helped the sections come together.
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Even after testing each tile at various stages during the build process,
one tile was dead-on-arrival and needed to be replaced, which was actually
quite painless to do.
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