Author Topic: Mission Control Project: 5 years on, what to do with the leftovers? (Read 553802 times)

Santoro · « **Reply #920 on:** May 24, 2006, 11:04:34 am »

It might also be cool to see if you can get scraps of Corian-type material in the colors you want to make the bezel. I doubt those are popular colors with homeowners but a largish countertop specialist that does retail just might have what you want.

I think that would be more compatible with the solid industrial look of the other materials you are using than glowing plexi would.

It would also help to seal this cabinet's fate as the heaviest on the planet.

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #921 on:** May 24, 2006, 11:07:00 am »

Thats a fantastic idea!! Would probably look much more like the mockup than plexi would. I'm gonna check the special orders at Home Depot next time I'm there.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #922 on:** May 24, 2006, 12:21:46 pm »

Quote from: Santoro on May 24, 2006, 11:04:34 am

if you can get scraps of Corian-type material

When you said this I first though "rish Corinthian leather". I hope he isn't make a Cordoba themes cabinet

Santoro · « **Reply #923 on:** May 24, 2006, 12:51:33 pm »

You are dating yourself there SirP! I remember that one too sadly.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #924 on:** May 24, 2006, 01:24:25 pm »

Heh, but that car was made before I was born

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #925 on:** May 24, 2006, 01:41:39 pm »

YIKES!!! This is the SECOND time rich corinthian leather has been mentioned in this thread. And the second appearance of Ricardo Montalban imagery. That's twice too many.

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #926 on:** May 24, 2006, 02:08:29 pm »

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This is the cabinet to end all cabinets

Hehe

Better not be! I've already started concepting and development on my next cab! Shhhhh.... wife doesn't know. But I really want one of each... a horizontal monitor and a vertical monitor.

Hiub1 · « **Reply #927 on:** May 24, 2006, 02:15:57 pm »

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Hehe

Better not be! I've already started concepting and development on my next cab! Shhhhh.... wife doesn't know.

You pathetic, pathetic person. I can't believe it! You are going to kill us all.

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #928 on:** May 24, 2006, 02:22:05 pm »

Yeah. I've learned a lot about how NOT to manage a project thread. Next go round I'm not gonna start the thread until I've started the project. I also want to design the next cab in a way that doesn't require local woodshops and my dad's tools. If I can remove the multiple month bottlenecks and daunting/elaborate multistage jig craziness, I think I can build the next one in a matter of... um... errr... well, no promises.

Of course, I also have to one up myself so I'm sure it's gonna be a

anyway.

Santoro · « **Reply #929 on:** May 24, 2006, 02:29:48 pm »

Quote from: SirPoonga on May 24, 2006, 01:24:25 pm

Heh, but that car was made before I was born

Dang. Everytime I think I might not be the oldest

around here, I get my hopes dashed.

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #930 on:** May 24, 2006, 05:58:13 pm »

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You pathetic, pathetic person. I can't believe it!

Got that right.

*tease*...

The shaded panels are MDF to be bullnosed and finished with metallic automotive paint and clear coat. The vents are backlit aluminum perf panel (similar to what will be behind the rocketsprocket logo) Monitor will be mounted vertically

This should feel like an appliance. Or a car. Or surfboard. Or something similarly polished and solid and shiny.

I really like the idea of multiple heights for the side panels. Someone posted some renderings a while ago of a concept cab with an outer side panel shaped like flames layered over a lower panel. I'll have to find the link. It was very inspirational stuff.

So like Mission Control, the idea behind this project is "arcade cab as art"

*takes self too seriously* But whereas Mission Control focused more on woodworking, this one will focus more on the shape and design of the cabinet sides and their multiple layers and materials.

liquid8 · « **Reply #931 on:** May 24, 2006, 07:03:12 pm »

a couple comments..

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*tease*... The shaded panels are MDF to be bullnosed and finished with metallic automotive paint and clear coat. The vents are backlit aluminum perf panel (similar to what will be behind the rocketsprocket logo) Monitor will be mounted vertically This should feel like an appliance. Or a car. Or surfboard. Or something similarly polished and solid and shiny. I really like the idea of multiple heights for the side panels. Someone posted some renderings a while ago of a concept cab with an outer side panel shaped like flames layered over a lower panel. I'll have to find the link. It was very inspirational stuff.

Start another thread for this one now.. maybe when your finished it can reach 100+ pages

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Mission Control focused more on woodworking, this one will focus more on the shape and design of the cabinet sides and their multiple layers and materials.

focused is past tense... is Mission Control finished??

I may have missed this in the thread from hell, but did you say that you are doing a custom frontend for this, or using an existing one?

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #932 on:** May 24, 2006, 07:06:16 pm »

A customized existing one..... 3D Arcade.

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #933 on:** May 24, 2006, 08:35:12 pm »

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focused is past tense... is Mission Control finished??

Heh.. My bad. Shoulda used present perfect. hahaha

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #934 on:** May 25, 2006, 09:50:31 pm »

Here's the CAF backlit plastic link.

AmericanDemon · « **Reply #935 on:** June 24, 2006, 10:08:44 am »

So hows it going PH? Any new shots?

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #936 on:** June 26, 2006, 02:12:22 pm »

Hey AD- Well... I'm holding off posting the latest shots until there's something more interesting to show. I've been making (slow) progress on the marquee box (the top and bottom panel that will hold the marquee) but currently all I've got to show for it are the patterns for cutting the channel to receive the marquee plastic (in the top and bottom panels). And rough cut 2" walnut for the panels themselves. Yesterday I cut and glued up some more walnut to extend the bottom panel. So, like I said... waiting to show something more interesting.

ErikRuud · « **Reply #937 on:** June 27, 2006, 10:57:31 am »

***Momentary Thread HiJack ***

Santoro, I AM older than you and as I recall, I wasn't the oldest one in the "How Old are You" thread.

Quote from: Santoro on May 24, 2006, 02:29:48 pm

Quote from: SirPoonga on May 24, 2006, 01:24:25 pm
Heh, but that car was made before I was born

Dang. Everytime I think I might not be the oldest around here, I get my hopes dashed.

Zakk · « **Reply #938 on:** June 28, 2006, 08:46:00 pm »

Ackghrgh! Would you just BUILD the damn thing?!?!?!

I'm going to look into how long it took them to make Mt Rushmore, because it COULDN'T have been this long!!!!

**Okay, so it looks like it took 14 years to make mt Rushmore. So I guess you do have 12 years left...

HoopstarsGarage · « **Reply #939 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:34:25 am »

Quote from: Zakk on June 28, 2006, 08:46:00 pm

Ackghrgh! Would you just BUILD the damn thing?!?!?!

I agree.. geez, 24 pages and only a few pieces to show for it..

toe. · « **Reply #940 on:** June 30, 2006, 08:11:48 am »

i am relatively new to the forum. ive only been reading
since about novemberish of '05.
and after 24 ish pages...
im convinced Pixelhugger doesnt exist.
there is no project and its all an elaborate hoax.

the floor was just a distraction.
its all part of a clever plan.

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #941 on:** June 30, 2006, 07:05:12 pm »

What the?.... ME? Distract viewers with cheap superfluous pics to hide the lack of progress? I'd never stoop so low... and as far as whether I exist... if not.. how do you explain THIS!!!!?

BobbyG66 · « **Reply #942 on:** June 30, 2006, 08:04:16 pm »

Now that's funny...

Zakk · « **Reply #943 on:** July 01, 2006, 12:00:43 pm »

mutant · « **Reply #944 on:** July 02, 2006, 08:35:44 am »

Quote from: Pixelhugger on June 30, 2006, 07:05:12 pm

What the?.... ME? Distract viewers with cheap superfluous pics to hide the lack of progress? I'd never stoop so low... and as far as whether I exist... if not.. how do you explain THIS!!!!?

Mark70 · « **Reply #945 on:** July 02, 2006, 07:42:48 pm »

I guess I can't complain that I'm not able to look at photos of your completed cab yet. You are definately an idea man. I work for people like you. Great ideas, an inate sense of the aesthetic, brilliant presentation skills..... need a bloody knuckler to see it through to fruition.

I hope that still sounds like admiration. After all, I still do strive to be a designer myself in some sense.

WaRpEd · « **Reply #946 on:** July 13, 2006, 09:05:13 pm »

Mt Mission Control ? The fifth forefather.
LMAO

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #947 on:** July 23, 2006, 03:17:26 pm »

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Mission Control Project - More design changes and renders - opinions requested

MYX · « **Reply #948 on:** July 23, 2006, 08:53:20 pm »

I heard it took Robert Binkman 12 years to carve that thing. He did not have enough money for rope (cause he used it all in the arcade) So he got all the dental floss he could find and wove himself a net to stand on. Day and night he stood on his net chipping away the rock inch by inch. The day he was to finish he made a horible fatal flaw. He was tapping the stone that would be the track ball. The tapping apparently splintered the rock sending a 24 ft slab of rock resembling a flying saucer towards binkman, and decapited him. When the disk landed on the hill near by and finally skidded to a stop, people started to notice the odd looking engraving on the surface.

fiscap · « **Reply #949 on:** July 23, 2006, 09:15:40 pm »

ROTFLMAO

papercut · « **Reply #950 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:49:43 pm »

It's been nearly two months since Pixelhugger has posted an update.

Is the project dead? Man.. that would be disappointing after more than 2 years of tracking this project.

Let's review:

He's got the sides shaped; he's got the bezels done, he's got the marquis done. he's got the garage. Heck, isn't this when projects kick into gear?

I mean, by the time he rolls this out, he'll be too arthritic to play the games!

Come on Pixel.. let's wrap this project up! I really want to see you standing in front of the finished product with the 3DArcade FE up and running!

Don't give up now! You're at the FUN part finally!

MYX · « **Reply #951 on:** August 23, 2006, 05:02:24 pm »

Naw, he will have to wire the thing and my guess is that he will use some sort of crazy wiring scheme where he uses infrared lazer beams with mirrors n such instead of wires. why?? Just because he can. Makes me want to vomit. But after vimiting, I will still eagerly come back in here to see said laser beams.

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #952 on:** August 25, 2006, 01:47:20 pm »

Heh.. well I guess a project like this sorta kicks in and out of gear. Make no mistake, it's as alive as ever but progress has been particularly slow lately. Things have ramped way up at work and I'm training for a mountain bike race so progress will continue to be slow until november. The training takes up most of my non family free time on the weekends and makes the rest of the week pretty hectic too. Mebbe I should post my spectacularly underwhelming pics of the marquee base/bottom that I finally got glued up last saturday

Hehe. On a more encouraging note I got another spot in the woodshop lab for the semester starting next week. WOOT! The planer and jointer in the lab will be critical for thicknessing the interior structures which will be dadoed into the sides to hold everything together. Now THAT will be the exciting stage. But alas... still months off.

markrvp · « **Reply #953 on:** August 25, 2006, 03:04:01 pm »

Who's Pixelhugger?

DrewKaree · « **Reply #954 on:** August 25, 2006, 06:47:51 pm »

Quote from: markrvp on August 25, 2006, 03:04:01 pm

Who's Pixelhugger?

I think I bought a hat from him once.

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #955 on:** August 25, 2006, 08:10:08 pm »

Yes you did, sir.

MYX · « **Reply #956 on:** August 26, 2006, 03:37:31 pm »

Oh, it is supposed to say hat. I have always thought mine was a misprint. Mine says, "All I got was this lousy rash". To think, all that embarassment was for nothing. Well, that's what you get for waiting till the $3 hats came out.

WaRpEd · « **Reply #957 on:** August 27, 2006, 01:29:05 pm »

When will the hat be available I want one

ErikRuud · « **Reply #958 on:** August 28, 2006, 12:21:16 pm »

PixelHugger will probably want to hand weave the fabric for the hats, which means he have to build a custom loom, and raise the Alpacas which will require their own shed with another rocket sprocket logo, etc, etc.

WaRpEd · « **Reply #959 on:** November 10, 2006, 09:33:25 pm »

3 years and 2 days will pixel ever finish?
Will we keep checking back hoping for that illusive update?
Check back next year same cab time same cab channel.


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