"A Barrel of Kong" - A Bar Height themed Cocktail Cab [FINISHED]

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Maximus:
Lol Hi Neph

The player two button was a last minute addition as I missed it originally. Also the space is very tight in the control panel area so trying to find the balance was difficult. Not a lot of science went into the layout but it does work nicely enough allowing my man hands to play in the space.

The cuts. Yep I screwed up on those and I'm paying the price now trying to make shims to even out the angle so it flows with the CP edges.

Restrictors yep I have yet to set them to four way,also I need to dremel them out from clovers to diamonds.

Dust washers. What can I say I like fruity martinis and karaoke too.

PL1:

--- Quote from: rablack97 on May 30, 2013, 11:25:14 pm ---dude, tell me your just test fitting that washer....There's no pink in Baseball!!!!!!!!!!!

--- End quote ---

Maybe his 60-in-1 has the Pauline Edition of DK. :duckhunt

The sloping sides of the barrel make the upright sides of the removable chassis stick out further than they need to.

Next time, consider shaping the uprights above the CP to follow the barrel sides.

You might also want the bottom of the chassis curved like the CP top to avoid protuding lower corners like these.

Maybe heat-bend some acrylic around the barrel to form the blue piece to match the curve and slope of the barrel wall. :dunno

Scott

Maximus:
Ideally it would be great to follow the lines of the barrel perfectly but it's a lot more challenging that it may first appear. The main problem is space, the curve of the barrel starts to taper quite a lot as it moves toward the ends and the wood itself is an inch thick, so you lose even more interior space for joystick bases, mounting and buttons etc.

An important part of the functional design was to have the controls as enclosed and protected as possible by the glass to protect them from drink spills which brings in the second factor you have to consider - the angle at which the players hands enter the small enclosed control panel area. It has to be shallow enough to be comfortable and allow the players hands to move freely under the glass without hitting the lip. This means you can't move the controls too far in as that increases that chance of contact with the glass by the top of the players hands, move the panel out too far then you have to extend the glass lip more, and then of course you are breaking the lines of the barrel even more.

The minimum width of the CP chassis is also heavily affected by the width of the monitor. I'm using a 17", you could use a smaller one but then you are sacrificing screen real estate and you still suffer from some of the other dimension restrictions anyway.

So could it be done better, no doubt yes. Could it be done as simply as it seems on the surface, absolutely not, the different factors involved all fight each other and it is very difficult to find the right balance of comfort, function and form.

Richie_jones:
Could the monitor maybe have gone over the controls which would allow the controls to go flush with the barrel...they would have to be deeper in the barrel though. .
Great build you've definately found an original concept here love it..

Maximus:
Roughing in the shims to flatten out the cut angle. These things are a nightmare to cut as they have angles in three dimensions

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