made a little more progress today. I made a small circuit board with a ribbon cable for the LCD screen. Honestly, I am not that happy with this design. If I were to do it again I would order an LCD screen with a serial connection so that it didn't have so many pins to worry about. I looked and they are only a dollar more expensive. But now I have these screens, so I will try to make these work.

Again i used some hot glue. While the solder holds the wire in place, the wires are thin and it didn't seem very strong. So I added some glue to help. I am not a huge fan of hot glue, but I suppose I am starting to find uses for it.

The aluminum plates arrived today as well. I need to drill and tap some holes for mounting it. I also might put a corner round on the top just to make it look a little nicer.