We were lucky enough to be able to get a stand at this years Autosport International show at the NEC, Birmingham, UK.
Our aim was to launch the Gizzmo Electronics line to the UK Public and trade, whilst picking up some UK dealers along the way.
We had a very tight schedule as the show was only ONE WEEK after we had booked it! So all hands on deck to come up with a concept and a design for the stand. A lot of late nights and early mornings followed!
We managed to make a small display unit which powered up the Gizzmo Boost controllers, CamFC and shift lights, and also generated an RPM signal to show on the CamFC, make the shift lights work and show off the features of the products on a "Demo only" Digi-dash.
In actual fact we had a lot of enquiries about the dash display as well, so we will also be stocking those very soon!
Thursday and Friday were trade / racing licence holder days, whilst Saturday / Sunday were public days. All 4 days were brisk with good foot flow and lots of interest in the Gizzmo line.
We were fortunate enough to be placed alongside a large racing simulator, so were gauranteed people would be around us all day, every day! Thanks very much to the guys and gals from Cruden / Hexatech Racing Simulators - CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE - they were very friendly and gave us a good laugh!
Also, big thanks to the following people - without which this whole show would have been very difficult:
Gizzmo Electronics for the stock
Willans Harnesses for lending us some clips etc to hold things up on the stand
Karl and Bjorn of BK Designs for the vinyl graphics etc
Ikea for the display stands
Bill Shurvinton for the MegaSquirt Stim board to enable me to demo the RPM features
Karl and Lee for helping out Saturday / Sunday
Kath for her 4 days of hard work
Liz for her support over the last 2 weeks on this whole headache!
The NEC for being so expensive it was unreal... Big reality check there on how much cash they must make ;-)
Here are some pictures for your perusal:
Grant and the stand:
Kath and Grant on the stand:
Lee, Grant and Kath on stand 10214
The Display panel - showing the products powered up
Liz testing out the Hexatech Racing simulator - only £125k if you want one
Grant chatting to customer, Lee gazing longingly at Grant...
