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Has anyone made a cocktail cabinet with a monitor that physically rotates?
spystyle:
Hello from Maine,
I bet this has been done before. I have seen Danny Galaga's a long time ago. Has anyone else made one?
I was thinking of making one that turns by hand, like a Lazy Susan table. I was thinking of putting a wooden circle around the monitor a la Salty's cab. I was thinking the wooden circle would extend out of the table at one area, maybe a cutout on the table, to facilitate hand turning.
Does this exist? If not, care to help me design it?
Thank you,
Craig
Lilwolf:
I considered it years ago, but then I kept added and adding, then realized it would be a monstrausity. (I was going to have an 8sided cocktail table). I was going to rotate so I could have horizontal and vertical on each side... Lazy Susan will definately work if you can get one with a big enough center to fit the monitor. They come in sizes and can handle a LOT of weight. You end up paying for it though.
btw, you can get away with just some wheels. Horizontal rotation is a LOT easier then angled or vertical.
Kangum:
whats the point on a coctail. the 2 ends are for vertical and the 2 sides are for horizontal games. just change where your standing?
just seems like a whole lot of work when all you have to do is walk 12 inches away for the same result.
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: Kangum on December 20, 2007, 06:51:03 pm ---whats the point on a coctail. the 2 ends are for vertical and the 2 sides are for horizontal games. just change where your standing?
just seems like a whole lot of work when all you have to do is walk 12 inches away for the same result.
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fixedpigs:
--- Quote from: Kangum on December 20, 2007, 06:51:03 pm ---whats the point on a coctail. the 2 ends are for vertical and the 2 sides are for horizontal games. just change where your standing?
just seems like a whole lot of work when all you have to do is walk 12 inches away for the same result.
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a few reasons...
1 - you don't have to buy redundant joysticks & buttons...
2- a cocktail cabinet may not always be able to be put in a place where people can sit on all four sides of it...