I made a poker table, now I'm finally taking a leap into rounding out the room with some projects that fit this forum. This first one is taking a long time because its just way too freaking cold to be working on this kind of thing right now.
I have been thinking of doing a knievel klone "woody" cabinet for playing old school games for a while but decided it might be a good idea to tackle something a little less ambitious first to get my feet wet. I thought a jukebox to have in my basement during card games might be a cool addition so I started looking around for ideas and software.
I saw this
jukebox project on the main examples page, which was modeled after the mameroom plan and came up with my own sketches. I did not plan for speakers in the cabinet, as I'm going to put some bookshelf speakers up on corner shelves. I also am putting a door on the front for easy access to the inside guts instead of a small slot on the side. There is a french cleat where the screen opening is to make hanging it up easy and strong. Most of the joints we've done so far are rabbet and dados, so the little thats done took a while. The wood brace holding up the LCD is held in place with pocket screws. I'm trying to figure out what kind of artwork to use for the marquee still.
I'm using SK Jukebox software. Machine is an old p4 running windows 2000. I've only got a 40 GB drive in there, going to up it to 80 GB soon. I've spent a ton of time ripping CDs and organizing the albums already. As of right now, there are over 130 CDs on my juke machine.
The "control panel" diagram is below as well, which will have Happ regular pushbuttons, and the Happ illuminated triangles as well for shifting between pages. I'm using an ipac2 for wiring up the buttons.
Here's some in progress pictures, like I said might be months before I get this thing done since its so freaking cold. They're not focused all that great and I should have taken a picture from behind to show the rabbet joints a little better...
Control panel button layout plan
More to come as progress is made...