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Arturius:
Hi All,

This is my 2nd build although its only a CP at this stage, I had to leave my last cab behind when a relationship went bad (I only managed to save my old CP) never did finish the bloody thing...

Anyway, new wife now, 3 kids and have to find out if the kids will play MAME before I suggest that I build a new cab (its for the kids hun... Honest!)

This is what my old cab looked like:


As I said, I only managed to save the CP and ofer the passing time this got cut down into 2 seperate pods that somehow were very different sizes, last weekend I managed to re-wire the old oneand put some bracing on it to make a single CP again, while this was functional it was very uncomfortable to use (not got any pics of it sorry) so I have made a start on a new CP to see if the kids enjoy playing on it (they seemed to at the weekend) if all go's to plan, this new CP will house a USB hub with a pen drive plugged into it for plug & play MAME for the kids and I will go on to build a cab for me :)

Pics of progress so far:





Got to re-wire (again) for this panel and then sort out some form of boxing to get it all enclosed and child friendly.

Been looking at MALA as a front end, hopefully I can work out how to make it autorun when the USB stick is plugged in meaning the kids wont be able to mess with anything...

Thanks for reading!

eds1275:
Good luck in your first quest, getting the wife to agree on a cabinet. I wish this wasn't such a hurdle for so many!

Arturius:
Cheers, sadly no progress on this yesterday as a friend needed help with a website he is building & it seems I have forgotten most of the (limited) knowledge of .php that I had...

More work tonight with any luck, although I have seen a trackball on ebay that I may have to add to the CP, it may be a bit squashed on there with it though :/

wcndave:

--- Quote from: eds1275 on November 06, 2012, 11:28:37 am ---Good luck in your first quest, getting the wife to agree on a cabinet. I wish this wasn't such a hurdle for so many!

--- End quote ---

1. Don't tell them until it's finished, cos then even they usually have to agree it's cool.

2. Psychologists have demonstrated that without friends a man is likely to be less successfull, earn less money, have health issues, be less happy and die younger.  If building a cabinet means your friends come round to play then it's "Hun, you don't want me to die do you?"

Simples ;-)

Arturius:
I will definately be showing her that post :)

Its a pain building a cab in the UK, everything is so sodding expensive!

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