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My first conversion and real build
TeamTEOR:
Got nothing really done today, that HONEY-TO-DO list hit me head on. I did manage to make it to Ace Hardware before coming back home. I picked up a gallon of primer that I got tinted to a very dark grey. Laying black paint over it should be cake work. I have some foam sheets in the closet that I am going to use to make my template for the control panel. Maybe I'll run out there and fit it in quick before bed, if not it will be first thing in the morning.
TeamTEOR:
I need to reseach a little to find the site that had printable templates for controllers, buttons, trackballs, and stuff so I can start to lay this all out. The foam worked out real well. Things has been crazy here at home, so I have been going slow. That is fine with me as I am less likely to do something really wrong.
Timoe:
I dig the profile of your cabinet. It'll look hip when you're done.
TeamTEOR:
Timoe, thanks for the kind words.
Still working on finding templates. I dug out my old Extreme Tech "Project Arcade" book, and lucky it still had the CD in it. However the template within it look like I need to have legal sized paper in the printer for it to print at 100% without getting cut off, something just doesn't feel right about that. I really wish I could find the templates I had prior, they consisted of the joystick with 6 buttons and I recall it printing out on a standard letter sized sheet. I used this template to make a single joystick for my cousin-in-law last year as a X-mas present. Maybe it is on the Lucid site, I'll find it sooner or later. Then I'll have to modify it a pinch so I can include the 7th button.
Here is a picture of the dimensions of my control panel area.
***Update, added a picture of a possible CP design for the first CP that will be made. I am using Paint Shop Pro 9 since I can't figure out the panel design software. Oh well. Hopefully you all get the idea from this picture. It is going to take some playing around once I have the wood cut out for the control panel and also the overlay here.
Timoe:
Here try these templates
Open using Adobe Acrobat reader
Use the magnifying glass zoom thing to center what you want to print on your screen then,
got to File>Print
Under "Print Range" select "current View"
what you want to print should be fully visible in the preview window
under "Page Handling" make sure that "page scaling" is set to "none"
print