Today I installed the front panel LCD, and hooked up the all-important power light. Fitting the front panel LCD was a major pain in the ass, especially after the death of my Dremel. I cut a hole in the front panel using a pair of tin snips, but it came out looking pretty ragged. Oh well, it’s functional. I had to ditch my faithful 20×4 LCD that’s been with me practically since day one, since it was too tall to fit, and substituted a 24×2 LCD in its place. As you can see in the photo, it works fine, but will require an update to my LCD driver to make text word-wrap correctly.

Barring anything unforseen, that’s it for BMOW hardware. I’ll be packing away the soldering iron and wire-wrap tools now, and concentrating on the software end of things for a while.