Ok, well, I am pretty much done with this cab. I have spent some time over the last week working on the lighting. Getting the light on the cab, as well as the ambient light where I want it. I think it looks pretty sharp now.
The rings on the side put off such a good glow around the cab, that I decided to throw some lights on the back to really complete the glow on the wall... Threw in some LED fans in the back as well, though you really cant see them in this pic.
Inside the cab ... Man, I am just a LED whore ...
And the full package again from a far. If you notice, I have also strategically placed some lights under the control panel to light up the coin area.
There are really only a couple of items left on the list to do:
1. Hide windows a little better on startup
2. Create startup sequence. I would like to have a quick intro video on launch (5-10secs max)
3. A few more emulators configured: As it stands I have Daphne,MAME,NES,SNES,Genesis and Playstation installed. I am going to add a few more plus some PC games like doom etc.
4. Get my cab lights pulsing: On this topic I am a little stumped. I talked to Andy over at Ultimarc last night, and he was saying that in order to get control over the brightness of my 12v LED strips I am using to dim them, I am going to need to throw some MOSFET's onto each of those channels. So, I have never even heard of these before, but it seems pretty straight forward. He said to use one bigger than the BSH201's that he used, so I looked it up. It looks like chinese to me. If anyone can recommend a part number that would help.
So that's really it. Other than the lights, most of this is pretty much ongoing software config that I bet I will be tinkering with for some time now. So I am popping this up to 99.999%, cause I really am as done as done can be on a project like this. It will continue to get tweaked for some time to come and I doubt I will ever change it to 100%, but for all intents and purposes it is complete. Anything worthy of a post will get one.
Now it's time to start working on the planning for the next project. I am shopping for an empty pinball cabinet to make a VPinball machine. I have a pretty wicked theme in mind... more to come on that in another thread.