After a family holiday where I spent hours in the game room playing a 60in1 cocktail cabinet reliving my childhood I decided it was time for me to have my own machine.
After a very quick web search I found enough info to be dangerous order some buttons and joysticks from ebay and attacked a keyboard.
Using my LASER cutter I knocked up a quick and nasty, very nasty, control panel to have a play.
I got a request to build a Neo Geo controller for a mate.
While playing around with this controller I found out that my 5 yo son loves side scrolling beat em ups!!
I then jumped straight in cut up some MDF on the CNC router and made a cabinet. I used the UAII plans based around a TV I was given. Once I had it together the size of the thing was a bit daunting.
That is as far as I got. Then the TV died... then another TV died. Add to this the cost of laminate to finish the cab was going to be stupid.
I then found this forum was blown away by some of the amazing work and learnt about all sorts of things like keyboard encoders and front ends...
So I decide to start again. Playing with sketchup and with inspiration from projects here I came up with this.
The plan is to use the CP I had built for the old cab, a 24" LCD and a 15" LCD partially inside the cab for marquee display.
The centre part will hold 3way ported speakers so the cab can be sort of a jukebox also. I will be running itunes with my iphone as a remote.
Fire up the CNC again and we are away
I'm working with black melamine on 16mm MDF. more to come soon.