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The Ghost in the Machine (Updated with more Pics)
weisshaupt:
--- Quote ---I would be very interested in trying your program, can you post it here?
If it is too large to post here, let me know I will PM you my email..
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Sure thing. The source code is at the end of the PDF I posted (which I believe is working now- let me know if you think that link is dead)
the secret.exe file can be downloaded at http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/0cc45e7424_0.42MB
and requires the following DLL be placed in the windows/system32/drivers directory to function.
http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/20120a7ac9_0.03MB
The wiring the program expects is also in the PDF, and should be pretty easily adaptable to the driver/relay circuit you are using. Not sure what you plan to use for limit switches, but the ones I used from digikey should work, (but really any reed/ limit switch would work-- just don't delete the resistors or you risk damaging the parallel port by sinking too much current)
This prorgam could, in theory, be adapted to turn a pin high at the end of rotation to do the degaussing. Let me know if you need it to do that andhow long a pulse you need to activate it, It should be an easy modification.....
In my setup I am using emulaxian/3d Arcade to call secret.exe using the 3x4 or 4x3 parm that is in the game list..
Cheers!
bfauska:
HOLLY ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---!!! I just looked at your documentation and... WOW. Very thorough. At less than 10 posts you have made a name for yourself already (at least in my book) clearly you did your homework before building and posting. Very good work, congratulations on an innovative cab with many slick and cool features. The photo doesn't show the marquee very well, but the fact that it's luminglas behind the text sounds fantastic. You should post a video.
Welcome to the forum and good job on your cabinet. :cheers:
BMW Z1:
:applaud: Awesome looking cab. Love the eluminated CP and moulding. :notworthy:
weisshaupt:
--- Quote from: bfauska on January 16, 2008, 04:03:33 pm ---HOLLY ---Cleveland steamer---!!! I just looked at your documentation and... WOW. Very thorough. At less than 10 posts you have made a name for yourself already (at least in my book) clearly you did your homework before building and posting.
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I thank you (and everyone else) for their kind comments. But I think we all know that this whole hobby relies on us all learning from and teaching each other... I am well aware of the giants whose shoulders I stand upon. The Doc and Knievel influences should be apparent, though I really stole many ideas and got many a solution by browsing here... I even Owe a vote of thanks to Pixelhugger. His mission control project convinced me that I should NOT announce mine till I had it done... Otherwise MY thread would be 2 years old...
I think its a duty to give back to the community as much as I have taken. IHopefully the docs help somone else as much as everyone here has helped me. Pay it forward, you know?
Unfortunately my Little Phone Cam-corder doesn't show the video well either. It just records too brightly. In person you can really see the "ghost in the machine" text very clearly, and the MAME logo floats behind it rather nicely.. Maybe I can borrow a better vid-cam from somebody else and post it again. But such as it is... here is what I have now..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/i4rmKNbvVIk&rel=1"[/youtube]
bfauska:
Even in the bad video you can tell that it's one of the coolest ways to do a marquee ever.
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