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Gamesomnia - inspired by Knievel's Woody Cab
ragnar:
Some more shots. Including the underside of the CP and the CP edge which got something like a 1/4" radius router bit to make a nice transition from where the T-molding ends to the bottom. The issue is common, 3/4" t molding and something like 1" total CP thickness.
The orange and red buttons are on top of the Cabinet. The orange is the shift button. The red is shutdown. I admit that a third startup button would be nice but I have bigger fish to fry until I ever do that.
A pic of hte CP/admin panel and a shot of Mala running. Yes, I have work to do on the GUI but I needed something to start with/play with. Once I get the marquee done I plan on doing a big revamp of the Mala layout.
All that is left is the marquee and speaker grill.
mrtuesday42:
is it just me or is your cabinet rather short???? maybe that is just the impression i am getting from the pictures...i like the curvy edges to it, looks pretty good. thats a crazy amount of buttons imho. also what kind are they? they look smaller and different than my happs...
ragnar:
The very top is about 5' 11" tall. In hindsight I do wish that it was a few inches taller. Maybe 6' 3".
I wanted to save money on the oak plywood by using one sheet. Later I made a mistake and needed a second sheet. This is the "in hindsight" part. I should have just intended on it being a bit taller.
So, I'd say that it is on the shorter side but it's not so short that it is abnormal. The CP is at about 38.5" in height. I don't know the monitor height off hand but I am fairly certain that it is within 1" of the Kneivel woody monitor height.
I should take a good side shot of it and provide some measurements.
My buttons are black Happ buttons. 9 per player. The layout actually works very well for N64 games I could not be happier. But now I think i need a CPU upgrade as only 1/4 or so of the N64 games work. When not using it for N64 emulation, it is pretty much setup as the common 7 button layout that most are familiar with in that the two rightmost buttons are not used.
The only thing with 9 buttons is that when you are not looking your hand might slip left/right. I want to dent the center button with a small drill bit so your fingers can find the "home location" without looking for it visually.
andrewbean90:
great job
mrtuesday42:
ah. the pictures made it look super small to me. but 5' 11" isnt too bad. what if you textured the main like 6/7 buttons that you use? you could do what we do for surf boards, take some salt and some resin and put in the buttons, then rinse, and you have a nice texture left behind :D