Even though it's not completely done, I figured I'd show my first control panel ever.
It is custom artwork I made myself and had printed out at Staples for about $40. Where I am a bit upset, however, is that with the multitude of VERY humid days we've had this summer the paper it's printed on appears to have warped a little bit so I can see a bunch of "waves" forming in the artwork itself.
I'm still a VERY long ways away from having a completed cabinet, so in the future I may go and have the artwork reprinted by MAMEMarquees on a vinyl of sorts to keep it from waving like this one has. Of course, that will mean completely undoing all the buttons and basically rewiring the inside again, but if I'm going to be keeping this thing I might as well do it.
So there are three images. One is an overall image of the CP, another is a closer up view of the top, and the last is an image of the back of the CP where I have the wires for the USB Key-Wiz, the USB Spinner, and the USB Trackball coming out. I also have a custom wire job for the led in the trackball which will be powered by a 12V molex connector. Finally, I have a terminal thing on the back to hook up my coin door wiring. In the future, I may just turn all of that into a serial type connector so I can hook all my Coin Door wires into one cable and just plug it in the back. Again, I have plenty of time so I might as well do it.
Oh yeah. I've got the T-Molding but it's not on yet. Since it is thicker T-Molding than the thickness of the CP Top, once it's on it's nearly impossible to open up the top of the CP.