Most of my order has started to come in but ran into a little snag with my artwork from Game On Grafix. I was accidentally sent two left side panels instead of a left and right. I've been working with Scott on correcting the mistake and he's shipping me a new set for this project. I mentioned in my last post that I was going to focus on my control panel so let's begin..
I headed over to the Slagcoin Joystick Controller Page (
http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/introduction.html) and used one of the fantastic templates to lay out my joystick and button controls. My goal is to make this bartop comfortable for two players.
Used my drill and hole saw to drill out the joystick and button mounts.
Applied my CP and started doing some test fittings with the Ultraluxx push buttons.
Finished the detail portion of the control panel by installing all the buttons, adding my acrylic protective panel and black trim on the top and bottom.
Spent over a day wiring up all the buttons, I-PAC2, PacDrive and both Happ Competition 8-Way Joysticks. This has probably been the most time consuming part of this build so far but finally got it done.
I couldn't put the I-PAC2 or PacDrive flush to the backside of the control panel so I ended up elevating them a little by using some white plastic spacers. This actually worked more in my favor and simplified doing my wire runs.
I was anxious to see this thing lit up so I plugged in a USB cable to my PC and was happy that everything works.
Started doing some tests with the WinIPAC panel design software as well as played around with some animation sequences using LEDBlinky. My first time using both pieces of software but the learning curve was not to difficult.