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emphatic:
Actually, as you have the monitor facing pretty much straight up, rotation would be very easy. Just make a rest for it that is disc-shaped and won't catch the walls of your cabinet. Put some hardwood under your disc-shaped monitor support and make a bezel for your monitor that makes it totally square. This way, the outer dimension for the monitor is now the same in both orientations.
You could make the speaker/marquee be one solid piece surrounding the bezel and have a hinge in the back so that it flips up if you want to rotate the screen.
heemid:
Thats cool, I'll look into it. Here is the idea for interchangeable panels. The panels will just drop in and use thumb screws on the bottom. One will be the normal fighter setup and the other will be 4-way, trac-ball, spinner.
Ond:
I like the idea of the screws underneath to hold the panel in place, what type of cable connectors are you planning on using for your interchangeable panels?
drventure:
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Given the panels so far, a single DB25 looks like it'd do the trick (and be a pain to wire up initially, but that's another story).
heemid:
DB25 is the plan, here is a little update made the panel for under the screen, it is covered with black formica. PLaying around with the bezel, cut poster board doesn't look too bad under 1/4" plex. The final will be shop-cut vinyl.