The PKE metre is the one piece of standard GB equipment for which detailed plans are not readily available, so on behalf of those of us without access to an Iona Shoe Polisher I ask What scale is the PKE? I only need one firm measurement to extrapolate from like the overall length or the screen size.
I searched the forum and the best answer I found was
here: PKE Dimensions. - #8 by Exoray - PKE Meters - GBFans.com
about 10 2/3" x 2 5/8"
I’ve been working from the game model which I had estimated to be about a foot (30cm) long .
That’s about right. If you guys can wait a bit (and no one else beats me to it), I’ll take some measurements off my shell tonight or tomorrow.
Yeah…its amazing that we can all make packs..but the PKE seems to allude us. We all need to put our heads together.
I think the packs are so easy because they are so large and some “fudging” can happen without too much going awry. you add electronics and you pretty much have a very large, glorified flashlight (in the case of two of my packs, that’s what I used as a source light for the beam effect… hey, I was on a budget!).
The PKE meter is tiny and does a TON: the moving wings, the intricate light patterns, altering speeds… and aside from that, the dimensions are fairly unknown on top of being all rounded edges. there’s not a corner to be found 
Iona pop up on eBay weekly; I would just wait until one comes up and try to snag it.
Right, but what I mean is…why haven’t we the fanbase figured out a cheaper easier way for PKEs? I mean, with cell phones now, you could bypass alot of the lights with the PKE front or “base” by using a cell phone.
It’s a matter of fitting affordable electronics inside a tight space and still allowing mechanical systems to move. As far as using a cell phone as a base, not many people are equipped to break apart a phone and use it for workable parts.
Cheap, mass-produced, miniaturized, complex technology has completely skewed people’s expectations of what is possible. If it was easy it’d have been done by now.
It isn’t.
It’s only in the last few years that technology has gotten cheap and easy enough for hobbyists to start tackling the problem but a certain level of knowledge is still necessary to complete a functional prop. There are a few people here moving in the kit direction that will be easier than building from scratch but an idiot-proof plug and play setup is still a few years away at best.
Sigh. Even if the wings didn’t move…
How awesome that we were JUST talking about this!