Been fussing about with many other things, and had hit a road block in decision making on the project, but finally overcame some hurdles.
First off is I got the Acrylic installed in front of the monitor and pulled off the paper. I also blacked out the metal frame of the monitor with Vinyl:
It does a nice job of making the monitor look like it’s floating:
(BTW - if you don't know about HLSL or GLSL and you have an LCD do yourself a favor and look into it. Makes a world of difference in the look of the games to get them to look as they did on a CRT)
I also installed the amplifiers for the two speakers and sub woofer. The amp turns on and off when a signal is detected and puts out the proper amount of wattage to match the speakers. The smaller sub amp is connected off of the larger. It was tough to find amplifiers that would meet the 4 ohm requirement without getting into car amps, but then those run on 12V and need a ton of amperage so you end up having to buy an expensive power supply. This was the happy medium as there aren’t many options:
As you can see I’ve mounted them (had to get creative on the smaller one):
Still a mess, but I will get it cleaned up.
Still working on learning programming for the Arduino and the relay switch for it….that’s slow progress.
Here’s kind of a current state of things shot:
Here’s a quick video showing the rotation in action behind the Acrylic:
Lastly I have been struggling with moving forward on the Marquee until now. The artist rendition was kinda funky with the name off to the side and this large light cycle that always felt too literal to the movie for my taste. So I put on my big boy pants, dusted off the Photoshop and took a crack at the art. Pretty settled on it unless someone wants to point out a glaring oversight.
Working on getting the control panel acrylic laser etched so hopefully should have a lot of this done soon.