Cocktail control panel

[Morgan1109]

I am building my first cocktail cabinet. I'm stuck on joystick and button locations. It's a standard cabinet. The surface is 9 inches wide by 5 inches deep. I am putting in a joystick and two action buttons.

Should the joysticks and buttons in the middle (2 1/2 in)? Should I bias them toward the player a bit? Should the buttons be offset differently than the joystick? I've seen them closer and farther away from the player.

Where in the 9 inch width should they reside? I would think the joystick needs to be at least 3 inches from the side? Maybe 4 inches? How much should the buttons have from the side?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Stephen

[kahlid74]

Your best bet might be to grab a spare piece of wood and mock them up.  Three inches from the side seems like a good distance IMO but do you have any pictures?

[Morgan1109]

here are a couple pictures. The control panels are primed, but will be painted black in a day or two.

[Morgan1109]

I probably should mention the main play field was cut at a 5 degree angle to give another half inch or so under the glass.

[kahlid74]

I would follow the template that has been around here before of the correct distance between buttons and joystick and I would make sure the joystick was a couple inches from the side.  So if the buttons were close to the right side than the joystick was I would be fine with that.

What you might want to so is cut a piece of cardboard that is the same size and drill joystick/botton holes out of it and attach them and put it in the place of your cocktail table and see how it feels.

[Morgan1109]

Can you point me to the template you mentioned?

[Morgan1109]

for better or worse I've got the layout I am going with. The center lines are drawn an are 3 inches and 4 5/8 inches for reference. The joystick is 2 1/2 inches from each side. It is slightly biased toward the player since 3 inches is the center line. The two action buttons are 1 1/2 inches and 3 and 1/4 inches from the side. It will also sit on the 2 and 1/2 inch line as the joystick does. The start button is set in between the two action buttons and 1 and 1/2 inches from the back.

Hopefully this works because once I punch holes it is over, heh heh

Thanks,

Stephen

[Unstupid]

What are you using to run the cocktail?  Computer?  ArcadeSD? 60-in-1?