Back to the Arcade - Part 4 - Control Panel Lights

Control Panel with Lights

It's not enough to just have a cool control panel, we also need lighting.  I discovered that there are some lighting kits out there but I figured I could do it for less money; and I did.  I was fortunate to have a local electronics store where I purchased some 'wearable' LED's which were the basis for my lighting system.

I made some bases from polystyrene sheet and glued the LED's to them.

While my control panel was in this 'portable' configuration I just hooked up 2 D-cell batteries to power the lights.

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