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telengard:


--- Quote from: DougHillman on August 12, 2004, 12:01:13 am ---Allright after an extended time of no time for cabinet building, I've been able to complete the cab I was hired to build.  

Now I can get back to work on mine. :)

Anyone finished or started their own modular panels since this thread was last active?



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Is anyone ever done with a modular panel?     ;)

Well, I finished switching over to RJ45s for my modular setup and got around to wiring the OptiPac so I can use my trackball and spinner modules.  I've been playing a lot of Centipede with a perfect layout.   ;D

I haven't seen any new ones yet, but I'm sure some folks are working on them.

~telengard

Hamselv:

The coolest (finished) modular setup I have seen is Doc's Modular MAME: http://www.beersmith.com/mame/.

Well thought out, well built and well documented :)

SirPoonga:

I like jelloslug's rail system.

Doc's system
"Can't cover panels with lexan/art"

That's wrong.  It's possile, you just need a well thought out repeating patern that the edges of each panel match up.  Like a repeating pacman maze that I have seen as a wallpaper.


Jello's rail system is how he over came Doc's con of "Need to secure joysticks - though I overcame this one"

patrickl:


--- Quote from: SirPoonga on August 12, 2004, 03:08:55 am ---Doc's system
"Can't cover panels with lexan/art"

That's wrong.  It's possile, you just need a well thought out repeating patern that the edges of each panel match up.  Like a repeating pacman maze that I have seen as a wallpaper.

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Well maybe it's not "impossible" to put art on it, but it's very hard to get it right, the seams would show, a generic repeatable pattern is not really nice, it would be very hard to design a more elaborate style of art since the controls are in different locations on the panels ...

I thought someone was working on an art idea though.

I doubt putting Lexan on it would work. That would be a tremendous lot of work and probably look really horrible. The seams would show up really bad.

SirPoonga:

Unless you made the seems part of your art design then you wouldn't know there were there.

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