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| lcmgadgets:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on July 02, 2013, 07:10:35 am ---Snow cone maker. --- End quote --- :lol I forget who did the cab with the beer tap. It looked pretty cool. |
| Vigo:
Well bearing in mind that I do agree a lot with yot's sentiment that there is a "can" and there is a "should" and a feature means doot if it is not done tastefully, I do think there are a ton of things that haven't been done yet. I'd think you could so all sorts of crazy cool things with Servos. Think of all that could be done with servos to make more things happen automatically. Forget servos just to rotate restrictor plates and monitors. Lets make a full on Jetson's arcade machine. You could make cupholders that pop out on command, and will automatically slide back in if the cupholder is not used for over a minute. That is not over the top in the least. :D On a more serious servo suggestion, I have been thinking about a post on Ricks doom cab that suggested "robocop style" lightgun holsters. I've been thinking it might be a pretty cool little invention to make a servo lightgun holder to hide away guns instead of having 'em bolted to the side of a cab. Meaning when a lightgun game is brought up, a door mechanism will open on the on the cab and lightguns in in holsters will slide out. I am guessing as long as the criteria that the lightgun is back in it's holster and a lightgun game is not loaded, the guns will slide back into the cabinet hidden. Maybe this has been done already, but how about servos to defranken a panel. Meaning, if you really want that tron stick, how about have it pop out of the control panel only when a flight stick game is started? When you are done playing, it can sink back into the fiery depths from whence it came. |
| Malenko:
a bingo ball style dispenser rotating control panel....... it was almost done once. |
| BadMouth:
Another idea I've had and still might do is an "arcade wall" of only cab fronts. It would be a row of quickly constructed facades, like buildings on a movie set. But they would all be playable and easily serviceable from the other side. I wouldn't bother spending a lot of time or money doing only a façade, but it would be neat to throw together in a weekend and have a dedicated machine for vertical classics, one for fighting games, and maybe another for gun games....maybe one for rotary stick games, depending on how many old computers I can scrounge up. The voice in my head shoots down this idea because multiple machines made out of old computers = more to maintain. I really hate buying parts to repair computers that I should have thrown away by now. |
| lcmgadgets:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on July 01, 2013, 09:14:25 pm ---To be fair, that cab was built 5 years ago, and I don't recall anyone since then taking on light up t-molding. My comment was more that the concept hadn't been refined and improved upon, like rotating monitors had. --- End quote --- Whew!...but you're right--this idea needs to b refined. I was simply going to copy. Hmmm...I guess my thought about 'bubble tubes' was along that line--somewhere in the corner of my decaying brain I had some vague concept of it somehow being an alternative to t-molding, rather than an addition. Gosh, am I going to revisit this? I find myself wondering what would happen if u got some plastic tubing, filled it with a thick oil, & hooked up something like an aquarium pump to the bottom of it... :dunno & others r right about being able to go way over the top. Sure, cheesy detailing can have a place, if that's your theme--which was my thought when I was considering 'The Brain' idea I mentioned earlier--a cab that was clearly & deliberately over the top. But ultimately I'd rather spend my money & effort on making a cab that's easy to operate & that can play more games well. I like the idea of eye candy that either enhances the playing experience, or that at least doesn't get in the way. --- Quote from: BadMouth on July 02, 2013, 11:03:26 am ---Another idea I've had and still might do is an "arcade wall" of only cab fronts. It would be a row of quickly constructed facades, like buildings on a movie set. But they would all be playable and easily serviceable from the other side. --- End quote --- Omg! That's original (uhh...I think)! |
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