My Jukebox..Updated with video

[allroy1975]

When June originally posted her Jukebox I was in love.  But for days at a time it seemed like she was gone.  So I quit checking her thread and I just eyed it up, changed some stuff and decided to make my own-  I obviously started this project a LONG time ago.   

It's not the greatest, but it's got some cool things, like the spinning CDs at the top.  I asked for help in the main forum on the motors recently.  They worked out well. 

It's not totally done, but it's close and I feel I can show the monster to the world.
(That would be you).

Enjoy
http://pac-mat.com/Projects/JukeBox/juke.htm

Allroy

[owenowen]

not a bad looking juke you've got there. i thought salmon king, thats what the screen shot is isn't it?, only allowed you to have 20 or 25 trcks in it am i right? and that op. ivy album has 27 tracks, what'd you do there? or am i way off. also what sort of system have you got in there?

owen.

[allroy1975]

SK will allow you to have over 100 tracks per album, but you have to check a box in the options.  By default it only allows 99.  So, I could put all 101 tracks of "Short Music for Short People" on there...I don't know of another CD that has over 100 tracks and I'm not making my own so I don't have to check that box. 

At the default font settings it looks like it would probably allow about 35 songs.  It shows the first 16 on the initial screen and up to about 35 after you hit the first numbers of the screen.  For example you hit 56 the whole OP Ivy cd takes over the screen and then you can see the rest of the tracks..up to about 35...then after the 56  you hit 12 and Bad Town (My personal favorite) plays.

As far as sound ...I'm using these Altec Lansings-
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=311709&pfp=cat3
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16836113140
depending on how much you want to spend.  For the the compusa price was too much, but I got to hear them at the store and I thought they were impressive.

SK Jukebox rox my sox off!  SalmonKing is the man.

Allroy

[Chris]

You know we're gonna need to see some videos of those spinning CD's...

Also, tell us more about interfacing those controls.. looks like you pulled a control keypad from a real jukebox?

Nice work!

--Chris

[allroy1975]

yeah, i'll post some pictures of the rats nest...errr..inside soon.  the keypad is indeed from a jukebox.  I went to a pizza shop auction up in Macon, MO a year or 2 ago and bought a Bride of Pinbot...at the end of the auction there were boxes of parts all over the place.  I got a bunch of boxes of coin mechs and other stuff for like $5.  I also got a sweet pinball cart for $5.  not bad!  Anyway, in the boxes of all this stuff I found that keypad.  I think they sell for like $80 or something insane like that from happcontrols.  It's really just like a bunch of Microswitches so I soldered onto the board and rand wires right into my IPAC.

I'll get a video of the CDs spinning soon too.

Allroy

[allroy1975]

I threw up a video on the site.  I think it shows the CDs spinning pretty well.  I also replaced the audio in it with the actual song that was playing..who wants to hear how the crappy video camera picks up my sweet sounding juke?

hehehe....

Allroy

[allroy1975]

the gears I got....

http://www.sdp-si.com/index.asp

A 1T 2-Y32096  x4
A 1T 2-Y32048  x2

The motors I got: (thanks to Nannuu)
http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item/ACM-105/search/30_RPM_TIMING_MOTOR,_120_VAC_.html

at my local electronics shop for some reason they had small metal square things that fit PERFECTLY on that motor.  I drove that up into one of the 2 small gears and that gear drives the other 2 big gears on it's side.

I got some small thick sheets of metal at Lowes and built it on them.  so the gears actually sit on the metal and are mounted under the board that you see that appears to have disks spinning on it.  Then I got some dowels and put them as the centers of the big gears and cut a groove in the tops of them.  Hot glued some CDs (had to contact a local CD reproduction company and they sold me some CDs that had ...silver shine on one side and the other side had..almost a glue on it...they told me to soak it in warm water and it'd rub off.  it did) 



On the left side there you can see the gear configuration, on the right you can see the dowels holding the CDs and running through the big gears.  The gears had to be the right size and they had to have a screw in the middle to tighten to the dowel. 

Then I just you know..mounted those 2 rigs under the main board that you see.

 

In case people like Mccoy wonder how I did this...

[mccoy178]

Damn dude!  I was just looking at page 65 of the project announcements and wondering where the rest of this was.  Awesome!

[allroy1975]

Damn dude!  I was just looking at page 65 of the project announcements and wondering where the rest of this was.  Awesome!

will add more in another year or so ...show you how I plug it into the wall.  it's awesome.  plans soon!

[NIVO]

lookin good allroy, but hey I gotta ask............... wheres the Blues logo and graphics? The Blues note would be ideal on that. 

[allroy1975]

lookin good allroy, but hey I gotta ask............... wheres the Blues logo and graphics? The Blues note would be ideal on that. 

Will be added in or around 2009.  Stay tuned!   

That's not a bad idea actually....I should buy some giant vinyl stickers.  you did notice I used blue rope light, eh?

[NIVO]

heh yea, i did. It would look wicked with that note on there for sure. Heck I was thinkin of doing a wing themed juke as well if i ever get these arcade panels done. I am considering making my own winged wheel stencils, which should be tough, but worth the efforts. The vinyl idea is perfect though, small note per side and 1 large one on the front there should dress that up allroy.