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Designing a cabinet for a tall guy...*edit- Questions about 8 way joysticks!

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Doom bucket:

Hello! I'm 6'2 and have alot of trouble with most arcade cabinets in that I am usually scrunching over or not fitting comfortably inside them! That is why I would like to either:

-Design an arcade cabinet to fit me perfectly
Or
-If somebody has already done something similar, for them to provide some plans for me to use!

I'm new to this kind of thing, I've never done any woodworking, I'm kind of confused as well. I've read most of the stuff on the main site over and over and I'm still not very confident though. I downloaded an Autodesk 3ds program and can't really understand how to use it :/

Doom bucket:

Also should I pick out a TV before designing the cabinet?

AtomSmasher:

I should be easy to customize a cabinet that your building, just make it taller or shorter.  Theres not a whole lot to it.  I'm 6' and I find that the design in the project arcade book (the Lusid design) is the perfect height for me.

NoOne=NBA=:

The way I designed my cabinet was to mock up a control panel, and then adjust it for perfect height.
To do this I just built a three-piece control panel (top, and two legs), and then put it on my breakfast bar, and adjusted it with magazines under the legs until I found the perfect height (38" for me).
Once I knew that, and the optimal angle for the CP, I designed around that.

At that point, I built what was basically a rolling table to hold the monitor/CP, and then designed the skin of the cabinet around that.
That method worked really well for me, but I had some involutary indecisions while designing.
My wife didn't want me to decase the brand-new 21" monitor that I bought, so I had to make the cab larger than was absolutely necessary.

As far as the monitor/TV goes, you should definitely decide on what you want, and how you want it (in the case, or decased) before you begin overall design plans.
If you don't know what you want before you begin design, you are going to have to design generically, so that you can fit whatever you get later.
If you know beforehand, you can design specifically, and end up with a much better result.

LPZ:

Talk about not being able to see the forest because of the trees....(thinking outside of the box).  I am 6'7'' and just use a stool.  Most of my friends are tall also, but they tend to sit too.  If you can snag a empty cab, think about going the stool route.

LPZ

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