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Blux

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What have I done? please help!
« on: October 30, 2011, 08:51:37 pm »
I built a test control panel for my arcade about a month ago, now I haven't made any now progress on the arcade... What do?
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Re: What have I done? please help!
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2011, 08:59:43 pm »
Quote from: Blux on October 30, 2011, 08:51:37 pm
I built a test control panel for my arcade about a month ago, now I haven't made any now progress on the arcade... What do?

Hide the control panel so it's out of sight, out of mind, and get to work on the rest of the machine!
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Re: What have I done? please help!
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2011, 10:47:42 pm »
Quote from: yotsuya on October 30, 2011, 08:59:43 pm

Hide the control panel so it's out of sight, out of mind, and get to work on the rest of the machine!

x2.  I did this on my cab to get the stick and button placement where I wanted them and found that me and my stepson played alot of games and progress had slowed to nothing.  I took my test panel completly apart and finally started getting some more work done on my cab.
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Re: What have I done? please help!
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2011, 12:10:32 am »
What?


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Re: What have I done? please help!
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2011, 12:52:59 pm »
Quote from: Blux on October 30, 2011, 08:51:37 pm
I built a test control panel for my arcade about a month ago, now I haven't made any now progress on the arcade... What do?

Change the scope of the project from "build an arcade" to "build a test control panel". Burn the arcade. Pat yourself on the back for another job well done.
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Re: What have I done? please help!
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2011, 03:28:14 pm »
Revisionist history wins again!   :cheers:
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Re: What have I done? please help!
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2011, 06:04:11 pm »
Two choices:

1) Dismantle it, go back to the drawing board with all you learned and design a full machine building the control panel last, forgetting you ever built it at all.

2) An hero.
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Re: What have I done? please help!
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2011, 04:36:27 pm »
Quote from: Blux on October 30, 2011, 08:51:37 pm
I built a test control panel for my arcade about a month ago, now I haven't made any now progress on the arcade... What do?

I would take a few moments to step away from the forum and work on the arcade.
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Re: What have I done? please help!
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2011, 01:02:13 pm »
All of these.  Since it's a "test" panel anyway, you may as well take it apart since you know the parts are working.
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