Tonight I cut the display from 1/4″ poplar on a laser cutter and installed the switches, pots and displays. (The single 7 segment display on the left still needs to be mounted.) I struggled with how to easily mount the other two displays – a short (<1/4″) very thin wood screw was needed… then hot glue came to the rescue. I can simply cut them off when I want to move them to a final version of the panel.
The layout is a tuned version of the where the paper prototype finished up. The poplar sheet I found was 7.5″ wide, while the paper version was 8″. I decided to move things around a bit to fit that size, and used a Golden Rectangle for the aspect ratio – that dictated 6.5″ x 10.5″. Everything then slid onto a nice grid based on that.
My goal, to be tested with real users, is that it should be obvious what the controls do and what the displays mean when you start playing.