Still in the early stages of shopping out my JP, but I just made some graphics for the stand up targets.

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Thanks J-Freeze. If you want the image file let me know.

I just made one of those East Dock signs and added Tim's upgraded gate.

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Thanks guys. This was kind of a one-off and I'm not really set up to make parts to sell. Someone with a 3D printer could probably make a pretty cool sign. DIY, is pretty straight forward to put together, though.

I used the image of the sign that Libtech posted a while back. I just did some tweaks to that image, reworked the text and arrow.

Here is a file on my google drive with various sizes of the dock you can use. I used the smaller image for my sign.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4v11BwvP9WobFhIdk1jM25WVms

Supplies needed/suggested:

- Adhesive label paper or inkjet vinyl, with adhesive backing
- 1/8" white foam/poster board. You can get this at Hobby Lobby, Walmart, etc.
- Lamination sheet (optional)
- Clear Matte spray
- 2" metal post (could be longer depending on how large you want the sign)
- sharp hobby knife
- scissors
- hot glue
- white spray paint

Print out the image file (best quality) on your paper to essentially make it a sticker.

Choose which size you'd like for your sign. Then cut out a rough piece that includes all 3 graphic elements for the sign.

Stick that rough cutout on your foam board.

Then you can either cover with a piece of laminate or lightly spray some clear matte spray on it. Basically you want to protect the image and cut down on any gloss, so if you do laminate, give it a light spray after the lamination is applied.

Use an x-acto or other sharp hobby knife to carefully cut out the individual images for the sign. (the map, text block, and arrow octagon). You'll end up with 3 foam pieces with graphics on them.

Paint your 2" metal post with some white spray paint.

Once that's dry, use your hot glue gun to adhere the 3 foam pieces to the post.

Mount the sign in the location desired. For mine, I put it where one of the wood screws was holding down the plastics on the right side. In order to do this, I used a small metal hand saw to cut the screw part off a #6 screw. Then I threaded that into the post, essentially making the post a wood screw.

Just finished up adding a mini LCD to my game.
1.5" screen, connected to RaspberryPi B+ v2, loops a video clip of scenes from the movie using RPiLooper.

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video:

A variety of different ways...
dab of hot glue,
double sided tape,
cut out a piece of Plexiglas to fit over the plastics, then drill small holes in that to insert the tree.
or just drill a small hole in the plastic piece (not recommended since it will damage the original plastic)

For mine, I used black rigid hobby wire. I snipped off that spike you mentioned. Then drilled a small hole in the trunk of the trees. worked the one end of the wire in the hole, with some hot glue, then bent the wire around the trunk a bit. The other end the wire is wrapped around a post and tightened down with the nut.

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It seems there is no be-all-end-all approach to the trees. Every method has pros and cons. I comes down to the type of trees you are installing, the location you want to put them, and the look you're going for.

Nice work!

I had put a switching power supply like that in mine initially. I then changed it to an atx power supply because I needed -12v to supply to the sound board.
For the connections, I used the connector for the AC hot/common. Re-pinned the molex to piggy back with the original wires. The ground was connected under the service panel where the power cord ground wire is connected. Circled in white

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I'm not using pinsound. I wanted the -12v so I could power the original sound board to get rid of the annoying Data East hum.

I don't think so, unless you have a mod that requires -5v.