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Galaga Bartop 19" LCD Rotating Display *UPDATED 11/26/12*
Ritalin:
Excellent point, leapinlew!
I'll round that out a bit. You're right, the t-molding having to have a near crease would be tough to apply.
Ritalin:
After mocking up the bezel with cardboard, it is with great sadness (sarcasm) that I will be ditching the rotating display idea for this bartop. The 19" LCD made for a cab that was just too too wide to look good with the LARGE circular bezel needed. No worries, I can always make a stand up cab that rotates the display someday!
weisshaupt:
--- Quote from: Ritalin on January 31, 2008, 04:34:17 am ---After mocking up the bezel with cardboard, it is with great sadness (sarcasm) that I will be ditching the rotating display idea for this bartop. The 19" LCD made for a cab that was just too too wide to look good with the LARGE circular bezel needed. No worries, I can always make a stand up cab that rotates the display someday!
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Sorry to hear that Ritalin... I thought doing the rotating monitor was a great idea, but I understand your frustration.. I had my share of cussing mine trying to get it right. But I guess that is the price paid for pushing the envelope a bit.
Just one question.. Why are you using a circular bezel? When I made mine, I merely masked off the 3x4 and 4x3 aspects and painted the plexi. The monitor itself has 2 thin strips of plexi velcro'd to it only where it needs to.. (top and bottom when in 4x3, sides when in 3x4) The Strips are only about 2 inches high ..
You can see inside the cabinet for a second while its rotataing, but when at rest is looks great.
If you cut slots/or make doors for the monitor to move through you can pretty much make the cabinet any width/heigh you want. In mine there are slots cut that allow the monitor to rotate behind the control panel and behind the marquee area... height was my problem ;)
Anyway, I respect your decision to abandon the idea, but if you reconsider, let me know. I can certainly help with getting automatic control of the servos to open and close the doors and such.. or in a manual model, you might be able to spring load them and let them open as the monitor pushes against them..
Ritalin:
weisshaupt, thanks for your post. I really do appreciate your comments. For me, I wanted to go with a circular bezel because I simply wanted the user to be able to quickly rotate the display in one shot and have everything "ready to go" in a mode to play it. By making the circular bezel, it's the only way I could think of to have the proper coverage without removable bezels, etc. If you have a pic of your cab, I'd really like to see it with the slots on the sides, etc.
The actual theory of my design would work perfectly, it's just that my 19" LCD is so big for a bartop that the width of the thing makes it ascetically unpleasing as a cabinet to me. It's just far too wide for a galaga themed cabinet to me. So this design would still be perfect for a stand up cab. The irony is that since the LCD is 19" and large, playing horizontal games on it letterboxed with the LCD fixed in vertical position really isn't that small. So the end result will be a much more narrow vertical cab that follows the look and feel of a galaga setup if I just stick it in vertically and be done with it. Sad but true.
To me, the design, mockup, tweaking and building of these things is almost more fun that when I assume the final product is ready. So I'll simply make the rotating display for my next cab. :D
Thanks again for your comments.
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: Ritalin on January 31, 2008, 12:47:02 pm ---weisshaupt, thanks for your post. I really do appreciate your comments. For me, I wanted to go with a circular bezel because I simply wanted the user to be able to quickly rotate the display in one shot and have everything "ready to go" in a mode to play it. By making the circular bezel, it's the only way I could think of to have the proper coverage without removable bezels, etc. If you have a pic of your cab, I'd really like to see it with the slots on the sides, etc.
The actual theory of my design would work perfectly, it's just that my 19" LCD is so big for a bartop that the width of the thing makes it ascetically unpleasing as a cabinet to me. It's just far too wide for a galaga themed cabinet to me. So this design would still be perfect for a stand up cab. The irony is that since the LCD is 19" and large, playing horizontal games on it letterboxed with the LCD fixed in vertical position really isn't that small. So the end result will be a much more narrow vertical cab that follows the look and feel of a galaga setup if I just stick it in vertically and be done with it. Sad but true.
To me, the design, mockup, tweaking and building of these things is almost more fun that when I assume the final product is ready. So I'll simply make the rotating display for my next cab. :D
Thanks again for your comments.
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I agree Ritalin, in fact, I believe I suggested as much in my first post, but it's cool you took a look at it for yourself. I look forward to seeing your progress.
To me, a 19" is too big for a bartop period.
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