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purplearms:
Thanks guys!
Just added a youtube vid of my 6 year old cousin totally mesmerised playing ninja turtles on the 120" projection screen.. haha.. My GF thinks i'm nuts, but i think most people here understand that you do it because you can!
I made this for my 1.5 bedroom condo so it wont not eat up space like a regular cab. I plan to build a TV stand with one of those false fireplaces in the middle, a custom water cooled PC to the left of that, rack space on the right for PS3 and tuner, then put a 60" plasma on top, and a motorized projection screen above that all when 60" aint enough.. Most of my friends thought it was a pipe dream until they saw the table ;)
The thing i'm missing now is maybe a black vinyl player 1 and player 2 graphic that i can put on the top middle button so that people can see its a start button.. anyone know where i can get something like that?
orion:
Oh now that's slick! :cheers:Wireless USB transmitter? Where do you find something like that. I have been entertaining the notion of doing something similar only it has to be invisible as the wife doesn't want to see it. I would also have to run it off of some sort of makeshift battery pack, and have the controls would have to be wireless. The wireless USB transmitter would get me half way there in terms of figuring out how to do something like that.
purplearms:
Yeah the wireless usb thing has a long and sordid history. Bottom line is that most of the products that have come out over the years have sucked real bad. A host of range, speed, and consistent signal issues. The only real good one i know if is the Ircon WiRanger (http://www.icron.com/products/usb/wi_ranger.php) but its expensive. Like $400 expensive!
A company called Wisair developed a very promising wireless usb module (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Wisair/) and cables unlimited has a licensed product based on this module:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GV00ZM
I haven't had time to thoroughly test it yet, but I will post back here when I get a good feel for the product.
UPDATE: This wireless USB sucks --I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules--. It works, but the refresh rate is slow and its not very energy efficient (gets very hot).
As for power, it depends on what you want to do with your setup. The actuator can draw up to 5amps at maximum load, the button and trackball LEDS can gobble up to 1.38 amps via USB (all usb devices draws power from my 4.5 amp usb hub), the red and blue LED table lighting eats about 2 amps.. And the wireless USB needs AC power too... no way i could use a battery there...
Ummon:
Damn, that isn't a control panel. It's a ---smurfing--- station. Pretty nifty. What's with the nine-button layout, though?
MaineEvent:
Awesomely Outrageous!
Ouch.....my epilepsy!
:laugh:
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