Vertical Cocktail Cabinet - 100% COMPLETE

[Hornpipe2]

EDIT: Current status - complete - check here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,87731.msg1425676.html#msg1425676

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I've got time off over Christmas and I'm using it to finally finish my vertical cocktail cabinet.  Based somewhat off Kyle Lindstrom's plans, with a couple modifications and a 19" TV.

The easiest way to follow along with the progress is to click here, as my recent work is fully documented with pictures.
http://greg-kennedy.livejournal.com/tag/arcade+cabinet

Feel free to comment!  I'll keep bumping this when I post more to my LJ.

[Hornpipe2]

Click the link above for today's update: putting the TV in its place.

[Franco B]

J a quick FYI, most people generally (including me) are too lazy to follow a blog when the whole point of BYOACs PA thread is to blog your progress, especially when the blog is hard to follow/navigate.

[Hornpipe2]

All right, I'll probably just keep doing this until the whole thing is done and then put the highlights in this thread 

[Franco B]

That's fair enough if you want to do that. The main point of posting in this sub-forum (generally) is to get the help and advice from people who can aid you (if you need it).

I imagine (from what I have seen) that you will get replies to your blog but not generally replies that will help you.

If that's the case and you need no help (wish I was that lucky ). great. I look forward to seeing the result.

Good luck with it 

[HaRuMaN]

bah... no pics...

[Hornpipe2]

OK you guys win, here are some pictures:

Here it is running Galaga:


and here is the cracked PCB of my keyboard hack caused by dropping a hammer in the machine


Now I will go drown my sorrows in Christmas alcohol while I lament the time I will lose trying to repair this thing without being able to actually remove the CPs.  I guess that's not so bad

[Hornpipe2]

So I finally got back to this project.  Spent 30 minutes fixing up the keyboard hack (it took three little jumper wires to bypass the cracked traces), and then 2 hours playing instead of doing actual work on it : )

[Hornpipe2]

By the way.  I did eventually finish this.

The complete write-up is here:
https://sites.google.com/site/cocktailcabinet/

And the "overview" video is here:


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The information is slightly outdated.  The 1/8" glass shattered and I replaced it with plexi.