I personally assembled that panel and one other. If they need more they will have to farm them out.
The architecture of how it was done now belongs to them. Except for one small board I designed that allows the switches to be plugged into the circuit board in a modular fashion using high reliability sockets, that little interface board remains our property.
Those fucking switches are like 180$ each, but can display up to four colors depending on function. Only two colors are being used in this design.
With over 40 switches and 4 possible colors apiece you can see how complicated doing routing for such a board really could be and that's not even counting the central numeric keypad and industrial selector switch which they don't seem to have implemented here.
They have put a cover you can see where that switch is supposed to be right in the middle. (actually the giant printout I have on my wall specifies positions for two switches side by side, I allowed them room for that.) Guess they didn't need it. Well the provisions and allowances for them are already in place. That panel is currently located at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Lepreau_Nuclear_Generating_StationHere is an image of the panel in process before powder coat.
... And yes I did build my own controller for the Atari 2600. The originals were complete shit.
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