Video at bottom!
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Printed this out and taped it to some 1/4″ MDF, used a coping saw, files, and a band saw to cut it out juuuuust right
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Double sided tape to stick it down to 5 additional pieces of MDF, and a router flush trim bit plus a tiny bit of cleanup with the files made quick duplicates
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I bought one paint sample from Home Depot that was the “middle” green, and just added pigment tints to that to derive all the other greens. I painted everything with the brighter medium green for a first coat.
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This is my dying/pigmenting, mostly I used black and white, but for the center part, I added a little yellow to get that really bright color.
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And now preparing for the very thing 1/8″ black outline on the outside edges, to make it a bit more cartoony looking
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I carved through the paint to get to bare wood to give my pieces a good wood-to-MDF bonding surface
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So I forgot a lot of pictures in between that last shot and this one, but I cut the box open, chiseled out some pockets for the hinges, installed them, and painted everything with a gray primer.
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Flocked the interior, painted the lip with the same dark gray/green color as the outermost panel
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This is a mega sized arcade button from Adafruit, they didn’t actually have blue in stock, this is white and I made it blue…ish
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See? Batteries! They go to a power switch that will be between the two hinges, and in addition to line voltage there’s a voltage regulator for the ISD 1820
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And all installed with the cherry arcade button and all! basically, just wired two leads off the button on the board into the switch, and the rest is just power lines and the speaker wire that’s plugged in.