Slow progress...

Been a while since I've updated here; there's not really been much happening, so as a side note, I decided to strip one of my old HDD caddies to find out why it wasn't working... Blown power cap had leaked over the logic board for the drive, so decided not to replace the power cap, and bought a new caddy... old one as been relegated to holder of screws! Obviously nothing to do with project, but nothing is really going on, still waiting on postage for most things. The artwork ordered was received, but it was the wrong one. I just got notification of the new package being posted out, so hopefully, we've got the right one coming. Really appreciative of Game On Grafix customer service now, as it's twice I've had to talk to Scott about things, really great guy to deal with, and that does make the difference between a good and a bad company!!

On the progress front, I have done one more thing; which is take the side of the case off the computer so I can run power out of the case (I wasn't going to do this initially; hence changing the electrics on the track ball to have a USB powered light) to adopt an idea I had seen someone else use on their cabinet; given the red blue and black my cab will eventually show on the outside; I decided to give it a "tron like" glow from underneath, and have wired in some computer LED rope light to brighten things up; sadly my camera doesn't do it justice, I really should charge up my decent camera rather than keeping on using my phone, but anyway, a quick snap of the new lighting solution...

T-molding is in the post too, and since I couldn't get a reasonable postage price on a coin slot, I'm making a custom solution for the hole in the coin door; I've got a button and switch left spare, so going to run power to that, and I've ordered the USB port from Arcadeshop.de so that the door on the front will never need to be opened, I also ordered a new lock, plug with filter (to plate the back up rather than just having cables coming out), and I may then put a latch on the inside so that when the cabinet is closed, there's no access unless you have the keys, thus making it a real machine!!