So, after completing my arcade cab I was diagnosed with the "must be tinkering with something" disease. So I decided to build a juke. Wanted a nice shape and a bit of a challange so decided to make it curvy. I couldn't find anyones design to plagerise for a change so had to come up with my own*. (* = subconsciously stole
Ond's] ).
The biggest problem I had was the curves. The front needs to be strong enough to hold 3 speakers and a big ass sub so that bendable MDF I wasn't sure would be strong enough (aswell as the fact I couldn't get it anywhere). I ended up gluing and screwing 2 sheets of 3.5mm plywood and 2 sheets of 3mm hardboard together. It came out rock solid so will hopefully be strong enough.
I had 2 100w speakers + tweeters lying around and got a yamaha sub off a friend that allows passthrough. I had to chop the amplifier in 2 pieces to get it to fit. I'm also using one of those cheap little amps off fleabay aswell. The PC has to be a mini ITX board I bought. Only thing small enough to fit in and it just about does.
I'm at planning on laminating this in the next few days so should look good. I painted the elo 15'' touchscreen bezel black and speaker edges.
Questions I have are:
1. I'll have black everything, speakers, laminate, screen. What should I do to make it a bit more colourful. Blue LED's? Chrome edging etc?
2. The speakers will be mounted on the outside and I didn't get grills. Should I? Should I use some speaker mesh to cover them all/partially?