More buildstuff today. Nothing too exciting, just dowelled up the floor and the monitor frame, and fit it all together. That's the last bit of dowelling done. I'm pretty much ready to start prepping the panels now for painting/artwork.
So more of the same for the floor, used the 3d printed guides to make dowel holes in the edges: -
Aaaand same on the side panels where the floor will attach...
The floor fits nice...
And underneath where the control panel meets the floor, it was nicely aligned, phew!...
Next, on to the monitor frame (with the glass overlay). I made a jig out of wood with 2 dowel holes in each end to use for this. It worked out nicely. The top of the monitor glass fits into the small routed recess in the speaker panel, so I used this as an alignment guide, then I measured equal distance away from the front of the side panel on the other (bottom) end, clamped on my jig and drilled the holes into the side panel. Then used the same jig to drill the holes on the actual monitor frame and pushed in the dowels. Repeat for the other side and all done...
At the bottom end where the monitor frame meets the control panel, I had to rout away a bit of the CP's rear support block so that I could get the monitor glass in and out. Basically to take the monitor glass out if I need to replace it, I would take off the CP top, unscrew the hex bolts under the glass retainer panel (see previous post), then the glass can drop down out of the routed recess at the top, and I can tilt it forward to take it out.
Obligatory money shot with it all put together. The control panel fits snug up to the glass, about 0.5mm away, which is a relief!
Oh, I've also generated this sound sample that I want to play as soon as the cab is switched on (after some bzzzt sounds and flickering marquee for a couple of seconds...
Welcome to VIDEOTRON - boot up messageI am working on a circuit that will play the sounds from an arduino and flicker the marquee. I should have more on that soon hopefully (using a rectifier, an op amp and an NPN transistor to control the light from the "bzzzt" sound waves). It's complicated and I'm still trying to get my head around it!