My brother Casey is a master electrician and came over to wire in a button to turn the computer on that can be pressed from the outside of the arcade. He also wired an existing switch in the arcade to turn on a power strip hidden inside. Then he offered to help me wire up all the buttons and joysticks too. The joysticks and buttons all are wired into an iPac keyboard encoder that translates the button presses into keystrokes that the computer can understand.
We foolishly thought we were going to get to play some games that night but we were actually up until 5:30am doing tedious wiring. Luckily the amp came in the mail last week so I was able to wire up the arcade's speakers and play my iPod through them, we listened to music and Paton Oswalt all night.
My brother is awesome... (and currently single ladies)
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