Opera Widget Arcade

This Monday, we have finished the assembly of the arcade cabinet!

Adam and George started by reassembling the cabinet that has been dismantled for transportation. Then Arjan, Petter and George drilled assembly holes in the parts such as the front keyboard door and the monitor frame. Adam put in four stop screws to hold the monitor in place.

Most employees in Opera have switched to LCD screens a long time ago, and returned their old CRT monitors to the system administrators. For most part, nobody wants them, so we helped the environment a little by reusing one of these devices. Of course, an arcade has to feature a CRT screen to be truly authentic! We've used a white monitor for initial measurements, but decided to replace it with an otherwise identical black and silver one. Adam and Espen put the chosen monitor in place, and after the remaining parts were screwed to the chassis, the entire thing started looking really like a proper video game!

More reports on what we do next are coming.

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