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Here’s Corny testing out our control panel for the first time:

On final assembly we plan to neaten up the wiring w/ some zip ties…

We decided to install the ipac and wire up our buttons and joysticks for a test run this weekend.

Next we cut and installed the peg board for the upper part of the back…

Here you see the nice new back installed on the arcade

Zac and I picked up some 2 and 1/2 inch caster wheels from Home Depot

We then used and appliance dolly to tilt the arcade on it’s back and install the wheels.

We got together for a couple hours on Saturday and pulled out the router I bought when we first started this project and never used.  Did some quick google searching on if you can cut lexan with a router and the […]

After installing the T-nuts, we screwed the plexiglass down to the top of the control panel. We turned the control panel over, clamped it down, and very carefully drilled the holes for the buttons and […]

We originally installed the T-nuts for the plexiglass mounting screws directly on the bottom of the control panel. After doing this, we thought it would probably look better, and sit better on top of the control […]

Here is where we broke the plexiglass on our first attempt at the control panel top.

We were drilling the holes for the screws we were going to use to hold down the plexiglass when the drill bit pulled up on […]

Now it was time to cut more plexiglass. We started cutting a plexiglass top for our control panel. Unfortunately things did not go according to plan the first time around. We wound up having to recut a whole new […]

Here we have cut out the plexiglass which will hold the graphics for our marquee.

Testing the lights.

This is a direct picture focused on the lights in the marquee box:

This picture is focused outside of the marquee box:

Now that it’s been tested, we had to finish applying the […]

Time to wire up the lights

Time to work on the marquee lighting. I found this reflective and flexible insulation at Home Depot. I thought it would be an easy solution for bouncing the light around our marquee box.

Corny was able to […]

We mounted the power switch just inside the coin door. This allows you to just open the coin door, flip the switch, and power everything on.

We ran USB cables from the motherboard of the computer […]

Corny wanted to wire up a power outlet inside of the cabinet and have a power chord coming out of the back of it.

We got the outlet all wired up and mounted the surge protector.

We realized that we’d probably need to add a couple extra buttons along the top for different functions in different emulators. For example, we’ll probably use them as “Select” buttons in the NES and SNES […]