Arcade Project : Control Panel Assembly

Realizing that the controls are going to show up the next day, I decided to put some time in to assembling the control panel. But first, I had to move the cabinet in to the new spot assigned to it in the basement. In order to get the cabinet to squeeze through the door from the garage in to the basement area, I had to take the trim off the door frame. No big deal. A few minutes later and I am sliding the cabinet in to the basement. It barely fits, but once it's on the casters, it rolls really well.

Here is where it goes bad. The end plan is to put it in to the "games" room, in the far back corner of the basement. However, this is the first time I have considered measuring the doorway between the basement and the games room. Way too small to get this cabinet through it. Not even close. So, after discussing our options with the wife, we decide to place it right next to the beer fridge, just inside the garage/basement door. It's actually a great location for it, so it all worked out in the end.

After I got the cabinet in it's semi-permanent home, I began attaching the control panel. It is really beautiful. I have a general idea on where the controls will all be placed, but I don't have exact drawings yet. I'm going to wait until I get the package of controls from SlikStik before doing any more work on it. The photos show the new location for the cabinet, with the control panel top on and another with the top on.

Oh, and I received the keyboard encoder from Groovy Game Gear only 3 days after I ordered it. I can not wait to hook the controls up to it, and run my first test.