Some progress:
Added some reflector tape and a diffuser strip to the (later hidden) light strip.
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Glued automotive sound deadener sheets (the waffled silvery area) wherever possible in an attempt to quiet the thing down.
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Started cutting and glueing up the legs and ring foot from walnut segments.
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Finished! This was a fun project. I like the combination of woodworking and technology application.
Thanks to everybody here for some ideas and advice!
Foot is sanded and finished:
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Assembled with baseplate, tabletop and enclosure frame:
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Complete table:
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Detail vies ow the joints:
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Now back to the living room. In spite of my best sound management efforts, the steppers can still be heard but are kind of acceptable. I guess I am not going to run the machine all the time, anyway.
That is beautiful. I love the curved finger joints.
That is sexy!
Hmm, interesting. Looks like a pair of anti-parallel silicon diodes in each stepper winding loop. I don’t understand what the 0.7V drop over the diodes will exactly do to smooth the stepper noise but I ordered a bunch of such 1N5404 diodes to try it out (I could not use the pluggable version anyway). Thanks for the hint!
Very cool implementation of the table! 
Sincerely, Pascal
