Here’s a quick progress report on what’s going on with my arcade system. Painting it took FOREVER but thanks go out to my brother Jason and my mom for really helping me out a ton with it. First I put down two coats of primer.
I then needed to put two coats of paint. To save money, I first put down one coat of a really dark blue paint because I had an extra can laying around.
I then went and bought a can of glossy black and covered it with its final coat.
I then cut out a piece of cardboard the exact size of my control panel and used it to figure out the layout of the buttons. When it was all done I cut out the buttons on the cardboard and laid it on top of the wooden panel and traced the buttons. My brother Jason helped me out a TON and together we drilled holes into the control panel.
This is what the final layout of the buttons looks like.
This is what it looks like on the backside.
Jay and I then stayed up until about 1:30 AM running the wires for the buttons.
Thinking about it now, I realized that we ran the wires a little wrong but it’ll be easily corrected. Today I am going to work on finishing the wiring.
Once its wired technically I could setup the computer and install all the things its going to need and I should be able to play it. After that all I need to do is work on the details of the cabinet. I need to add hinges, a cooling vent, some fans, add some extra buttons and most importantly the artwork! I’m going to get some sweet art printed out then I am going to place it on the cabinet and sandwich it with plexiglass. It’s going to look amazing. I’m getting excited!
I’ll keep you updated as things progress!!
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the wiring is just a little off. we needed to do the ground wires a little differently but it’ll be easy to fix.