Well, this is going to be a backwards post, starting with the final product
The reason why it's backwards, is that it only took 2 hours to completely finish the build, including installing the controls and doing the wiring. So the finished product is done long before getting the pictures of the process described.
Hope you wan't to follow this project anyway
Background: I wanted to make a DIY arcade control cabinet KIT that was fast and easy to make and is looking and playing better than the one you can buy finished. But that's pretty much up to you to decide if I succeeded. I do however like my design very much and I think it plays very very well.
There is room for 6 x 30 mm Sanwa / Seimitsu and 2 x 24 mm Sanwa / Seimitsu
The joystick must have a maximum installations depth of 51 mm.
The bottom panel is transparent because it looks awesome (atleast I think so).
This one is configured with the new smoke colored Seimitsu 24 and 30 mm buttons and a Ultimarc UltraStik 360.
The ArcadeStik will be sold as a kit, and I have only made very few changes to the final design, only concerning tolerences. The bottom panel was supposed to be black on the final kit, but I liked the transparent one so much I kept it.
I hope you like it.
Receiving the ArcadeStik prototype kit:
The parts
The first parts put together
The box in made
Moldings for the bottom panel with reinforcements
Invisible Joystick Bracket planted in epoxy glue
Six Seimitsu 30 mm Gun Gmoke + two 24 mm Seimitsu Gun Smoke + UltraStik 360
Wiring it all up. Neat and tight
Bottom panel with rubber feet mounted...
And finally the finished ArcadeStik
Read more about the project here:
http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/steparcadestik.htmBuy the KIT here:
http://www.nanocade.com/