Time to splice the hdmi cable for the umbilical. I've been dreading this and am super intimidated but here goes nothing.

I'm terrible at this but it's coming together. The connector is dirty and I should have cleaned it. The joints are all terrible, but I guess we'll see what happens!

Test number one is totally a success! Holy crap! While connecting it, I lost at least one joint but it must have been one that passes audio or something as the image came through clean. I'm going to try to clean up the joints tomorrow and add solder to them, and then continue to the USB portion of the umbilical which are only 4 wires each so hopefully no big deal. Famous last words.

Pretty excited about this! Spent a couple days during off hours designing and printing test parts to create this plug holder for the terminal. It's now "done" and I can get to work completing the umbilical.