Opera Widget Arcade

Hello again! We didn't do really much on Wednesday, but what we did was an important part: we installed the sound system into the cabinet.

Our sound system consists of an amplifier unit combinet with a subwoofer, two speakers, and a volume control on a wire that came in handy because we could put it on the keyboard shelf. We put the main unit in the bottom part of the cabinet.

For the speakers, Arjan and Adam made two openings in the ceiling sheet above the monitor with a hole saw. The speakers turned out to be exactly the right size for the tight space between the ceiling sheet and the top of the cabinet: were they just a little bigger, and they wouldn't fit.

When it was done, we had to test the sound. We moved the arcade to the middle of the room and connected the sound system to Adam's Mac. Of course, Adam started the original Galaga game in an emulator, so the sound test was very authentic. The monitor wasn't showing anything yet, but the sounds our box made were the true sounds that a video game is supposed to make!

There will be more reports as we go on with our project.

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