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Ikeamame, a slim upright cabinet, completed

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Blanka:

Thought more of something like this:
plexi with black paint on the back with a square transparant
rotating black plastic bezel between monitor and plexi.

fivslt:
Ok, thanks.

I can't put the plexi at the front because of the two handles attached to the
rotating part. I could cut a hole to the front "bezel" layer, similar to the square
transparent hole in your suggestion, but then I would have to attach the monitor
differently to the rotating layer so that there would be no bolts at the left and
right side of the monitor. Anyway, a good suggestion, optimal for
motorized mechanism and probably possible to adapt for manual mechanism.

fivslt:

--- Quote from: Singapura on June 03, 2008, 04:07:22 am ---I was hoping you'd turned an IKEA bookcase into a Mame cabinet. I've been considering that myself  :)

--- End quote ---

Heh, I wonder how that would work. In a way I did not start from scratch, because I had to cut only the angled and curved parts for the sides from pre-cut rectangular pieces. (I used a jigsaw and sanded down the last millimeter to the line to avoid chipping of the melamine.) All other parts were rectangular, and I did not have to cut them. This sped up the process quite a lot.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: zupapa on June 03, 2008, 02:52:27 am ---- 2x16 character LCD screen on the control panel. It now
  shows the CPU and memory usage. Does anybody have any
  suggestions for better use of it?

--- End quote ---

I can't think of a whole lot....

Scrolling the name of the current game being played

Virtual coin counter.
or
A statistics display. eg How many hours of game time.

Is it color? A super simple marquee.

A very very tiny screen with an attract mode.

That's about it out of me.  :dunno

fivslt:
Thanks. I had similar ideas. Also, maybe it could show game instructions. I'll have to find an inverter for the backlight first, because now it is a bit hard to read. It is an old electroluminescence backlight, and would need 120 V about 400 Hz AC. I'm not very familiar with those. Probably ten years ago those were very common, but now I can't find them in local electronics shops. The LCD unit was just something that I had laying around, and I thought that I could finally use it in this project.

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