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lcmgadgets:

--- Quote from: Mike A on August 29, 2018, 04:22:25 am ---If an axis belt is slipping you are cutting too fast. Slow down the feed speed. If the belt slips at low speed than find a real CNC machine that uses screws or rack and pinion. Better yet, it's a freaking arcade cab. Cut it with a jigsaw and sand it to fit. You are only building one cab, not 50.

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All very true. It's Al's work space & equipment, though, & he's convinced he can get the machine up to snuff. Also, he plain likes to play with it. ;D

lcmgadgets:
At last, an update! I've been busy with real life stuff (roller skating, working for our roller skating grand imperial poobah, getting my son settled back in school, did I say roller skating?), but finally did some work on the 8" 6 button panel.

Once again, the value of starting with a mock up is proving invaluable. We discovered that the button holes were a bit too small, despite the sketchup drawings being accurate. It turned out that Al had mismeasured the router bit in his cnc. A quick editing, & the problem is fixed. It was cool to see a gold leaf push button mounted.

On my own I'm still working on the rotating monitor design, via google sketchup for the moment. I'm concerned about the weight of the monitor on the support. When I finish some options I'll post them for your feedback.

Also, just as with Doc's Modular Mame, & Weissaupt's Ghost in the Machine, I have to pick a way to attach these individual controller panels to the box, in a way that they stay in position well despite rough handling, but can be quickly removed without tools. Doc used a peg & hole arrangement, Weissaupt used velcro. Both seem to work great, but a roller skating friend of mine offered me these powerful earth magnets, I'm considering trying them to hold down the edge of the panels closest to the player. The farther end I intend to try Doc's peg & hole setup. Of course, I'll have to consider the issues magnets bring with them...(I don't want to wipe a friend's credit cards)

lcmgadgets:
Well, I'm back again. Fall came, & Al & I couldn't do any work at his place. & then spring rolled around, & he was tied up with other projects. So it sat again.

But with the virus keeping me at home, I have time again. & so, an update.

I've been working! I built a test support for the rotating monitor, to get a feel for it and to see if this design would actually work. I came to the conclusion that the weight was fine, but I don't like the lazy susan bearing-I've got a flange bearing on order.

With that on delay, I went back to work on the Star Wars yoke, & the Kadestick interface (thanks PL1). I ended up wiring up a whole new MattairTech MT-DB-U4 board--I'd snapped the resistor off the 1st board & could not successfully desolder & replace it. Followed PL1's great instructions (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=156279.0), and plugged the board into my pc to install the driver.
And I'm stuck there. It won't install it. I tried manually installing it--no dice. The computer sees a device there, & the Flip software seems to see it, because it won't program it because the driver isn't installed. I've tried a few different ideas (downloaded & tried to install a 'signed' driver (have no idea what that means)). No luck. I've emailed the company and explained the problem...waiting. In the meantime I'll find something else to work on.

I'll post some pics later.

Hope everyone is doing well, all considered.

lcmgadgets:
Pictures! My test model of the mount that the monitor will be rotated on. The flange bearing to replace the lazy susan is still coming.

lcmgadgets:
I opened up this old rifle I bought to see if it was optical or pots. I was betting pots. Wrong!

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