TWIN STICKER

Some goodies have arrived! Including a kind donation of some rgb less. Exciting times

Cut excess bamboo into four pieces to create brackets for the lid.

Survived the Ikea shop and came back with the two parts for the base of the controller. Cue Mcgyver music. Let modding commence!

Tried to get a shot from directly above the arduino with two joysticks connected. I've used x2 grounds and x8 digital, pins 2-9. I still need two spare for the button. And a few more for an LED.

Looking after my own arcade I'm a stickler for cable ties. Cable tie everything! It makes fitting all this into the box much easier.

That's one set of wires all glued, cable tied and ready for the pcb seimitsu stick.

Hot glue gun to the rescue. The glue was the quickest way for me (without breaking out the soldering iron) I simply pushed the wire far enough down to make contact in the female dupont connector. Then I glued around the join between the two wires. This provides insulation as well. Will add some electrical tape to isolate it a bit more.

The other end of the joystick wire i connected to a group of 5 dupont cables male to female. Each cable is for a compass direction on the joystick plus ground. This was connected to the arduino 2,3,4,5 pins for the direction. And pin 8 for the ground.

The seimitsu LS-32-01 has the benefit and ease of use of a pcb and 5pin connector. I used a JST ph5 connector into 5 stray wires as seen here. This connected to...

Time to finally add the seimitsu button and lock it in place. That's the whole of the top panel set out and physically connected now. Very pleased!

Again my screws were too long for the bamboo lid so I raised them by using some nuts as washers (bottom image).

I marked the position and used a dremel with 1mm drill bit to create pilot holes for the screws. I didn't have a depth guard so had to judge by eye about 10mm deep.

The bevel worked well, and allowed the screw nut to catch. The button felt secure in place.

Snug fit! The button was the first time the project felt like it wasnt just component parts and was beginning to take shape. Especially after the initial tangents and misteps. The clear seimitsu 30mm button looks great against bamboo. However...

Drawing around an old 2p gave me a 28mm guide to begin with. I didn't have a spade attachment handy so I initially drilled with a 12mm drill bit. Then dremelled away in the hole to give me the final 30mm gap. It was a case of take this part slowly I wanted the button to be a snug fit.