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Monstarcade:
The third year of the professional bachelors Industrial Product Design at Howest, Belgium started making their own arcade.
The project is called the 'MonstarCADe' and is the first attempt of making their own arcade for the entertainment room. So, the students can now go for the oldskool electronic entertainment that was loved by their professors when these were youngsters too.
The students took an very different approach on the looks, based upon the comic 'kid Paddle'.

Read the full story on the blog:
http://monstarcade.blogspot.be/
It's in Dutch but the pictures tell more than a thousand words they say.


Step one: brainstorming and choosing the final two. To get to the final two designs, the group was seperated in two teams. Each team could present one final idea.
Step two: initial design
     The students went for 3 teams:
     - team 1 : designs the cabinet and hardware implementation
     - team 2 : desings the lightguns and arms
     - team 3 : designs the control panel and coin mechanism
     - All teams : work together for the different sollutions to combine them into a good build.
Step 3
     Groups work on their seperate project, but still work together so they don't lose the oversight.
Step 4 combining everything
    This is the actual phase, next gathering after the exams.
     Update : Getting into the finishing stage... But this stage is known to take a lot of time...

Best regards,
Olivier Demortier

(the professor that thinks by enjoying a project, you get to learn the most!)
You only get old when you lose the child in yourself, so I'm pretty safe...

Pictures :
1 : how it should look, arms not yet attached
2 : The gun, inside but not yet with electronics (more info, see below)
3 : the work so far
4 : The workshop of our college in Kortrijk Belgium, feel free to hop in  ;D

BadMouth:
Looks awesome!  :lol
I wish I'd went to school for engineering/design.

Do you know if the light gun uses IR emitters or is it a real light gun that uses the CRT screen?
Just curious because real light guns rule.  ;)

thatpurplestuff:
Love the concept and it looks like it's got a ton of potential (the padded tongue is freakin awesome), but that monitor seems like it will seem insanely small for that size cabinet.  I could be wrong though...

Monstarcade:
The monitor is for testing, it's is small indeed  ;)
Found an PCI card with a S-video and AV out, so this means we can use a CRT Television inside.
We choose the CRT for its retro style. In answering to the previous mail, we use the aimtrak electronics but bought them barebone.
This means the students are making the housing itself also. We opt for two different approaches: vacuüm casting of the shels and perhaps some polyester. The second one is made with our 3D objet printer (rapid prototyping).

Monstarcade:
The making of the lightgun so far...

Some selected ideas, had to come down to one.
Because of the 'monster-comic' the coice went to the most 'comic' looking gun, so concept seven with the transparent discs.

The making :
We're making two guns, based upon two techniques: the real prototyping and the rapid prototyping way.
     - The manual one is made by making a foam model (CNC milled) and continuing with hand lay-up (polyester) or using in the vacuüm mold machine.
     The inside will be strenghtened by lasered supports.
     - The second will be made by an objet-printer or FDM printer. So this means all the functionality and strenhth must be in the CNC model.

Here some of the selected ideas

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