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New Product: Gyramite Arcade Spinner (Maybe...)
rackoon:
You are the MAME cocktail table master!
If you tell me to buy this spinner I will humbly buy it if you promise to sign it "Whamoed" (I'm serious).
Your cab inspired me to pick up this hobby. I must have a Whamoed spinner!
When people look at my half built oak cab, the drawings covering the walls and the $1000.00 worth of parts scatted around my spare bedroom they think I'm crazy. Then I just pull up your web page and say "Look what this guy did just imagine what else is possible."
Will you build any more cabs in the future?
All I got to say to all you possible spinner customers is if this guy builds his spinners like he built his cab, it will kick butt. Lets face it the dude is a perfectionist.
AND PLEASE PUT BLINKY LIGHTS ON IT. WE ALL LIKE BLINKY LIGHTS.
juggle50:
Whammoed,
What about this. It seems to me that last week the market for spinners was anemic and now it's flooded. While your spinner looks excellently constructed, durable, and generally high in quality those atributes aren't neccessarilly unique as it seems to me that both GGG and SS have those atributes as well.
What is unique is the high res encoder wheel. Now, I know absolutely nothing about spinner technology so keep that in mind when I say this. Instead of making a spinner that fits a stock encoder, why not design a wheel that uses your high res technology that fits an exsisting spinner?
I think most people in this hobby have a spinner (particularly after this weekend) and they are kind of expensive. Wouldn't it be cheeper for you and your machinist and everybody to design a wheel for exsisting spinners........Again I'm sure I'm talking out of ignorance but I just see the demand for that higher than having to buy a whole new spinner.
I'd still like to see a spinner off between you, SS and GGG. Maybe OSCAR should test them out since he probably knows the most about spinners and is no longer in the buisness. :)
toasty:
what is your timetable for making these available to the public?
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: farmecologist on March 02, 2006, 03:36:23 pm ---If you could get variable resistance in there I think you would have a winner. You really need the physical resistance for the Arkanoid games/clones.
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No you don't. Arkanoid's resistance only came from the fact that it was geared. What we need is a geared spinner :)
http://arcadeshop.com/pics/arkanoid-controller.jpg
whammoed:
--- Quote from: juggle50 on March 02, 2006, 03:52:04 pm ---
What is unique is the high res encoder wheel. Now, I know absolutely nothing about spinner technology so keep that in mind when I say this. Instead of making a spinner that fits a stock encoder, why not design a wheel that uses your high res technology that fits an exsisting spinner?
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An encoder wheel at this resolution must be matched with the appropriate read module, so that would not be possible.
--- Quote from: juggle50 on March 02, 2006, 03:52:04 pm ---I'd still like to see a spinner off between you, SS and GGG. Maybe OSCAR should test them out since he probably knows the most about spinners and is no longer in the buisness. :)
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If Oscar had time to test spinners, he would still be selling his own. From my understanding the only reason he is not selling them is because he has been tied up with his real job.