Custom Made Arcade Clock

[mpm champ]

I want to make one for my little girls room for her birthday.but im not sure how to make the picture (

[mpm champ]

does anyone have a hello kitty one you can post?

[ChadTower]

^^


Hell I'm thinking of making one out of this guy's avatar.

[fixedpigs]

^^

Hell I'm thinking of making one out of this guy's avatar.

you could make a series of six of them...

[Level42]

Made this thanks to the inspiration in this (very old) thread:



The base is the Star Wars Atari poster. I removed the vector graphics from Darth Vader's body because this was to be a SW clock, not specifically for the game.
The font of the numbers is called Aurabesh and is a "real" SW font. I added some black edge around them to make them stand out better.

I also had to paint the hands white because they were black originally and that made them very hard to see.

All in all, pretty pleased, will look great on my son's room. The clock cost me a whopping €4.95 

[gryhnd]

Cool. First I saw of this thread.

I posted about my custom clock for my Home Theater/Game Room on AVS last year. Here's the jist of it:

Preface: I couldn't find a clock for the HT I liked anywhere. I didn't want one I'd hear tic-tocking away, it needed to be visible in the dark but not glaring, and I wanted it to be theater themed in some way.

So I gave up and began designing my own:

    * One sacrificial Craigslist $5 digital LED clock with photo sensor
    * Scraps of MDF from my shop.
    * A piece of galvanized flashing cut into the shape of a hinge
    * alarm magnets to hold the 9V backup
    * B&W Enamel paint
    * Walmart $0.97 alphabet stickers
    * white automotive pinstriping.


Total project materials cost...probably around $15

[severdhed]

Sorry for bumping such an old thread,but it was such an awesome topic, it was worth revisiting.  Since it was recently mentioned in another thread, i figured i'd post a pic of the centipede clock that i made.  i made this like 2 years ago and it has been sitting in my basement since we moved...when i saw this link, i figured i'd go look for it and bring it up into the family room and post a pic



so, lets see them, i'm sure more of you have made arcade clocks since this thread went inactive

[Santoro]

LOVE the centipede face, did you create that?

It's still on my radar to sell arcade clocks, Real Life has kept me from finishing my prototype...

[severdhed]

LOVE the centipede face, did you create that?

I told the lady at walmart i did , or she wouldn't give it to me when i went to pick up the print.  however i can't take full credit for it.  i found the main graphic using a google search, loaded it into photoshop and added the tick marks and made it round, and pasted in the centipede text that i copied from another pic i found online.(cover art from the playstation game if i recall correctly)




i just wish the damn clock wasn't so loud.  i got the clock at a Family Dollar store for $3.  i had to paint the hour and minute hands white because the black ones just didn't show up.