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EightBySix:
Interesting concepts! How do you plan to secure the keypads during use?

tony.silveira:
and here is the first keypad mechanically functional (still need to do the wiring but that will be towards the end of the project).

first pic, side of the keypad with two magnets in place, one for open, one for close.  around the pivot point pipe, are some plastic washers stacked, glued and cut down.  these are on both sides and keep the keypad centered in it's well.



this next pic shows the inside of the well.  the square hole is for the pivot point.  the magnet is hot glued in.



i've never posted a youtube video but i hope this works.  the video shows the keypad being flipped over and how it snaps into place with the magnets.  note that the 1/8 inch mdf cover is NOT in place on either the panel itself or the back of the keypad.  that is exacting finishing work so i will wait to do the full mount of the top board



thats it for now

tony.silveira:
was on hold for a bit, back onto this project this week.  hoping to get some of the wiring done this week, flip over keypads and LED's around the sticks.

I have decided on my panel artwork and will be working with vlad over at gameongrafx, seems like a very nice guy!  I'm not going to blow the lid just yet on what the theme is but i do have an interesting idea on how to backlight text that is printed in the artwork.  fingers crossed!

tony.silveira:
here is the keypad all wired up with the 1/8 mdf board on top to finish it off.  my artwork base will be all black so it should hide the lines around the keypads very well.

fyi, any other wiring and installing has to wait until i get the artwork installed so panel is on hold again until next week when artwork gets started.

this pic shows the back, where the keypad will sit.  it's grooved out up top for the pins on teh keypad.  the hole in the center is where the wiring feeds thru



here is the wiring done on the back of the keypad



here is the wiring being fed thru said hole and coming out one of the pivot points



keypad installed, wiring coming out of one side



this shows the tubing around the pivot points for easy rotation.  these outside collars will be hot glued into place



here are the grooves in the panel for the pivot points and the hole for the wiring



and the hole kit sitting in place



and here is avideo showing the flip.  this has the mdf facing so you can see its all smooth



thats it for now

Le Chuck:
That's a groovy little mod.  I kinda makes me think that a cool feature would be controler layouts for each game diplayed on an auto rotating CP panel with a small monitor embedded.  Look forward to seeing this continue to come together.

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