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| severdhed:
I edited the first post to keep the most recent cabinet picture at the top, please look through the rest of the thread to view the build progress. here is the cabinet as it stands now, ready for the PC to be installed and setup. HERE is the original thread V I started building my new cabinet this weekend. I sold my 4 player showcase cabinet because it took up too much space, however i really need a 4 player cabinet because by the end of September, i'll have 4 kids. Right now, only my two oldest ones play the cabinet we have, but i'm sure the other two will join in once they are a little older. I want to keep the functionality that i had with my other cabinet, but with less space required. I plan on building a 4 player panel on a pedestal, which i will connect to a 42" LCD tv mounted on the wall. I accidentally rendered all of the HDMI ports on my wife's tv useless a few weeks ago while doing some electrical work without turning off the breaker. (oops) So, i got her a new one and took the old one for my arcade project, since all of the other inputs still work, including component video and VGA. I plan on doing this project in two phases...first is the free standing pedestal. then once that is build and the TV is mounted, i want to build a box to attach to the back with some pipes mounted, to make it look like a complete unit. Anyway...enough of the boring stuff, here are the pics. first, here is the sketchup model i made of the pedestal. I never used sketchup before, i had alot of fun learning how to use it. I may tweak the dimensions of the top of the panel slightly, but this is what i am going with as of right now... here is what i want to end up looking like when it is done. here is the 2x4 base i made sketched out the shape of the cabinet on the MDF. (i bought precut 2ft x 4ft pieces of mdf..it was slightly more expensive than buying full sheets, but much easier to transport in my minivan, and since alot of the dimensions of this cabinet are 24", it makes for much less cutting on my part. first side cut out clamped sides together to run through the flush trim router bit 1/2 pine boards screwed and glued to the right side both sides ready to go T-Molding slot cut side with base and top brace mounted both sides mounted...it stands on it's own! that is all i got done this weekend, had to dodge some rain, and deal with a sick child for a while. hopefully I will get some more done shortly. |
| a1pharm:
Wow, great job being productive over the weekend. Build looks great, too! Cheers! :cheers: |
| BadMouth:
Polling suggests this build will meet an 80% approval rating. (+/- 5% margin of error) I don't see anything I would change. :cheers: |
| yotsuya:
I like how you extended the base to the back of the wall. It looks more complete that way. :cheers: |
| severdhed:
thanks. family stuff to do tonight, so very little progress will be made this evening. i did start working on the PC a little. I had a pentium 4 desktop pretty much set up and ready to go, but then the other day a lady brought me a laptop to repair (i work at a pc repair shop). as it turns out, her husband got drunk and beat the crap out of it. shattered the screen, and severely bent up a large portion of it. She decided just to buy a new one and told me to throw the old one out (once i got her data moved over of course). Well, as it turns out, even though it looks ugly, it runs perfectly fine. I plan on removing the LCD entirely and using this for my mame cabinet. it has a phenom II dual core 2.8ghz processor with 4gb of ram, 500gb hd and radeon hd4250 graphics. it has VGA and HDMI outputs, which makes it much better than the p4 that i was going to use. Plus it is small enough that it will fit in the control panel portion of the cabinet. I am considering mounting everything in the control panel box, so that i could detach it from the base and take it other places....like in the back yard connected to my DLP projector. I'm not entirely sure on that though. |
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