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Family room friendly cab: The Armoircade
skinz:
Really awesome - A shop that big in NYC would be 75k a month - very very jealous. we have NO space in our shop. Really, you'd be scared. Extremely painful. The armoire is a fantastic idea and it really came out well. Cute kid too lol. She's gonna be whoopin' your but in bowling in no time! :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
drventure:
I didn't realize you finished this one. Nice job!
newmanfamilyvlogs:
They're never really finished are they? (:
Added velcro to the speakers to keep little fingers from dislodging them and made some adjustments to the closing latches. Discovered vsync make trackballs lag. Still tinkering with hyperspin..
newmanfamilyvlogs:
Spinner!
GonzoJoey traded me a couple of spinners, so I had to drop one in the CP. Unfortunately neither of them seemed to work with my minipac. I'm not sure if the boards are dead or if there is just something odd about them:
Luckily I had a spare Imperial 3" trackball that I knew worked. Unluckily, it does not have helpful mounting holes.
That's ok though, because there are very few problems that can't be fixed with MOAR TAPE:
Also I decided to try some 'steel stick' material we had laying around at work. I knew it dried very very hard and could hold metal surfaces together:
I need to find a more secure way of holding the optic sensor in place, but for now it works well enough. I'll edit with a pic of the actual spinner in place when I remember to take one.
Edit: Pic of top with spinner
yes, those are two different latches to keep the thing closed. Still trying to decide which one I like better. Visually the pinch/roller one looks nicer, but the magnetic one does a better job holding it shut and flush.
newmanfamilyvlogs:
The family has been enjoying lots of Golden Tee, Cameltry, and Bubble Bobble, but after finally running NullDC and playing some Crazy Taxi, and realizing how cab-friendly some web based games like Entanglement and the various flash games my daughter enjoys on NickJr.com would be, I decided it's time for a higher resolution monitor.
I'll be putting the current monitor back into a Golden Tee Classic cab I have and am giving it to a friend who runs a pawn shop, along with helping him set up software to run the shop in exchange for a new 27/29" Makvision from Happ.
One disappointing point though is that it seems that was I originally though I was ordering, the 1024x768 version, is no longer sold by Happ. At the time I placed my order the webpage was listing it as the XGA version. Now it's says SVGA, 800x600, and my invoice lists the monitor as "M2929D4G-TS" I probably would have ordered it from XArcade.com if I knew that so that I could have saved around $40 on shipping.
Specific mounting dimensions have been hard to locate online, other than a small picture on the bottom of the Happ page. I hope those are accurate, because it's going to be a VERY tight fit in the cabinet.
Pictures when it finally arrives!