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Cardcade - Slim Cab Based on Knievel's Design
JamesKY:
Greetings all! This is my first post here but I've been doing a lot of reading and am happy to announce that I'm ready to begin work on my first MAME cabinet. A friend and I recently completed another ambitious project which you can read about here. Now thanks to all of the great information I've gotten from this site and others, I'll be ready to start this project after I finish some bookcases for the wife this weekend.
The cabinet I'm building is based on Knievel's fantastic design. I wanted a slim cab that would be easier to move and find space for since I have several other hobbies which take up room in our basement as well as the previously mentioned bookcases. My wife and I are big University of Louisville fans so that's the theme I'm going with. I've only designed the marquee art so far but I will most likely design something for the control panel and sides at some point.
Here you can see the design I built in Sketchup based on Knievel's plans:
Now if you looked at my link above, you know I have a penchant for putting beer dispensing apparatus into furniture so you may be asking, James why not put a beer tap into your arcade cabinet? Double points if it works as a control for Tapper. While this would be a very cool idea, I wouldn't be able to fit everything inside the slim cab and I already have a kegerator that will be sitting in close proximity to the cabinet. Rest assured, cold beer will only be a few steps away.
So at this point, I've already ordered most of the stuff I'll need from GroovieGameGear and I'll be heading to Lowes to pickup two sheets of MDF as soon as I finish these darn bookcases (having this MAME cab serve as motivation made me finish them in record time!) I'm really looking forward to having a lot of fun building this thing and I'm sure I'll make many many many trips to these forums to research or ask questions. I'll be sure to post pictures once a week or so.
Wish me luck and thanks to everyone who's made very informative posts and given me inspiration to build my own arcade cab!
Rick:
I checked out the site - LOVE the gaming table. For a moment, I said, "well, that's a strange layout for poker"... ...and then I saw the dice and paper. Now, the table is SO MUCH BETTER than I'd first thought! (Poker is overrated. Gimme some Rifts any day of the week.)
;D
JamesKY:
Rifts is great. We're playing a Dark Heresy campaign at the moment but Rifts might be next.
JamesKY:
Finally got to start on this project last Sunday. I took the week off so it was a great time to get some work done.
I have the rest of the panels cut but haven't attached them yet.
Here is the PC that I put together from extra parts I had lying around.
My assortment of buttons, joysticks, and other goodies.
JamesKY:
Got a lot of work done this past week. Here is where I am right now.
Closeup of the control panel.
Hopefully we'll be able to get it painted in two weeks. My friend is going to bring over his sprayer so we can get a nice professional finish on it. Between now and then I'll be cleaning it up (and my house from all the dust). I'll also go on and order the glass to cover the monitor and the marquee and control panel art.