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Pacman style bartop cabinet build
jammin0:
Looking great. Did you happen to document your CNC build? I'm really interested in doing that as my next big project but not really sure where to start other than searching around on the internet.
fieldofcows:
--- Quote from: jammin0 on December 30, 2012, 07:12:18 pm ---Looking great. Did you happen to document your CNC build? I'm really interested in doing that as my next big project but not really sure where to start other than searching around on the internet.
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I didn't create a build log of the router but there are a few build photos here http://www.fieldofcows.com/index.php?title=Joe%27s_2006_CNC_Router
It's an excellent machine that doesn't take up too much space and it is fairly easy to build. It was my second router. The first was a JGRO design built entirely with non CNC tools (http://www.fieldofcows.com/index.php?title=JGRO_CNC_Router). This was also a capable machine but not quite as sturdy. I think if you look on CNCZone things have moved on a bit since I built mine a few years ago.
PL1:
Please tell me you are going to put some backshells/strain relief on those DB-25s.
Also, not sure if you're familiar with the KADE, but Sharpfork is one of the three main guys on that project.
Scott
fieldofcows:
--- Quote from: PL1 on December 30, 2012, 07:30:07 pm ---Please tell me you are going to put some backshells/strain relief on those DB-25s.
Also, not sure if you're familiar with the KADE, but Sharpfork is one of the three main guys on that project.
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All the wiring so far is temporary. I have a stock of covers for the connectors.
I have heard of KADE. It sounds fantastic and perfect for what I need but I enjoy the challenge of getting it working myself :D
sharpfork:
--- Quote from: fieldofcows on December 30, 2012, 06:50:09 pm ---
I've seen on this forum that you are a bit of an xbox/cab expert and wondered if you'd comment. Take a look at this image:
I currently have two DB25 connectors for the switches and joysticks.
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--- Quote from: fieldofcows on December 30, 2012, 06:50:09 pm ---The control board itself is a very basic microcontroller board I made for work that contains 2x PIC18F4550.
To get the controller working, I found quite a lot of info on the Internet. Particularly this: http://euc.jp/periphs/xbox-controller.ja.html but I couldn't find any examples of anyone actually getting a microcontroller to work with an xbox. I borrowed a USB analyzer from work and connected it between the xbox and a real controller and worked out what I needed to provide as a handshake to get this working. It was pretty easy with access to a USB analyzer.
I've provided a few hard-coded profiles that need a bit of tweaking in the code that allows the joystick to be either digital, analogue or both switchable with a magic button combination.
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This is absolutely kick ass! I must admit absolute jealousy for your access to cool stuff like a USB analyzer and your own CNC setup 8)
It is stuff like this that makes me love this hobby. I love how you repurposed the PICs for this application. You should be able to get the setup exactly how you want it then never have to think about messing with them again.
Most folks can't do what you have done so we are solving a similar encoding issue with KADE using an USB programmable AVR and a simple GUI/ loader. We'll be opening up the source hopefully in late February and I'd love to know your thoughts. I'm going to point Degenatrons and Bootsector this way so they can see this awesomeness!
--- Quote from: fieldofcows on December 30, 2012, 06:50:09 pm ---As for the video conversion, I just got a cheap S Video to VGA converter from eBay. It is quite noisy but works quite well.
I'm using coinops 5 on the xbox. It's got far more games than I actually want but is so convenient that it made sense to go with it.
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Svideo should be fine. I personally do a hacked VGA bios + a simple component converter on a hard modded xBox. There is a softmod solution too. Let me know if you want to know more about this.
CoinOPs 5 is super cool. The update to 5 r2 is worth doing. I'd aslo check out Vision. I'm going to use a simplified version of Vision as my boot application for an easier to navigate best of list then launch coin ops (out of Vision) for a deeper list of games and consoles.
Great project!
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