Greg Logue came over this weekend and we worked on our robots together.  Above is a test fit of my chest area hardware.

Here's a shot of the finished programming bay.

I built working switches for the 10 chest buttons using Norm's buttons (modified), Scott's bezel and 10 illuminated switches(modified).  Here's some pics:

• Switch plate front
• Switch plate top
• Switch plate buttons installed
• Unpainted buttons
• Button close up
• Backs of buttons have been painted silver to reflect light better
• Shot of buttons sitting in bezel from inside of torso
• Switch panel in position over buttons
• Bondo used to support switch panel
• Another shot of switch panel and bondo supports
• Shot of finished buttons

The rest of these are shots of the neon backplate.  I mounted it using two machine screws in the top of the torso and again used bondo to provide mounting lip for the lower edge of the back plate.  The last couple of shots show how I used a piece of scrap 1/4" acrylic to mount the neon power supply and voice sync unit to the backplate.

• Backplate, mounted
• Backplate top view, note the two mounting screws
• Backplate interior view, bondo lip not yet formed
• Bondo lip that holds the lower edge of the neon backplate, this will get painted flat black
• Neon components mounted to acrylic sheet
• Neon components on sheet mounted to backplate