The front posts won’t be solid wood. These too will be cut from plywood in two layers. The layers will involve a central slot which will facilitate a piece of thinner wood, engineered wood product, or plexi to slide in. The top and bottom won’t be fully square with the addition of depressions along the front edge for the now engineered posts to be placed, grooves for the previously mentioned panels to slide into, and the top will have depressions for the hing… maybe not. I need to think about that. I should start doing up a model tonight.
I’m still deciding what I want to do for the electronics. While it’d be wicked to do a single board with everything, based on the odd shape it would need, I’m not seeing that being economically viable. I might just put depressions for the LEDs and wire runs with a central unit to drive everything. I should mount that right off the rails. I need to look into cost effective ways of driving the LEDs, ideally all off of 5 volts so I don’t have to do too much tomfoolery.