Very nice, TD. I can't wait to see the finished version. Thank you for sharing your build log with us. It looks like you are coming along quite nicely, and will soon have this working to your specs. I love to see this type of innovation going on here.
It's like I told my wife the other night... On Geekhack, if there is something we need or want that doesn't exist, or isn't quite perfect, we either make it ourselves, or have it made for us. We simply refuse to accept that we can't have what we want.