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A Mame machine in an antique buffet - USB probs solved (I think!)
skinz:
How did you do the gold stamping? Are they actually stamps? Is it stamped with paint or gold leaf? It looks so amazing. It looks so much like gold tooling on leather. Something like that gold tooled on leather would take days or weeks to do. It's really amazing. I'm embarrassed of my thread. Need a job? :D
The control panel really is top notch. Gratz!!!!
jipp:
very cool build. i read this yesterday, you did a great job. today i was reading another webpage. and it made me think of this cab. its a steam powered record player :) steampunk all the way!!
http://hackaday.com/2010/12/02/steam-powered-rickrolling/
chris.
drventure:
@skinz
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. It's actually stamping. I used some stamps typically used for scrapbooking, along with a metalic gold ink. What I found was that every ink/paint combo i tried would simply not stick well to formica. Most would stick, but would come off pretty easily from hands playing games on the machine.
I first tried clearcoating with a spray enamel. that DID NOT work! Ugh, just check out pics from earlier in this thread for that fiasco.
I was however able to get all the clear off, then used alcohol to get off the stamped ink.
Restamped, and then coated the panel with Future floor wax (that stuff is MADE for formica/linoleum)
Haven't had any issues at all with it since then.
And yes, the idea was to simulate that gold leaf embossing that you often see on high end leather desktops. With the leather texture of the formica and the natural "stamped" look that comes from actually stamping the design, I think it turned out spot on.
Of course, it's likely not many cabs would do well with this look but, hey! ;)
drventure:
@jipp
I love that record player, but it's not quite "audiophile", what with the steam whistle and all ;D
drventure:
Finally got some time over the Christmas break to do a little work on the buffet!
Not much in terms of "building", but mainly software config this time around.
First up, get my wireless guitars connected and operational.
I picked up 2 of these before christmas
Then I picked up a wired XBox360 drum set off a guy on CL for cheap.
The guitars are pretty slick. Solid body, they feel like real guitars and not cheap plastic controllers. The drums... Well. They're plastic :)
Hooked everything up and pulled down the FOFIX version of frets on fire, along with the Rockband skin.
Then found a few places to download the chart info for songs I've already got. Holy cow! There are TONS of good charts out for FOF. I grabbed a pile of Stevie Ray Vaughn tracks.
Anyway. it took a bit of trial and error.
First, I'd plugged them into USB hubs that were powered, but apparently under so... so when all three activated, things started dying.
A few swaps of USB ports and that was fixed.
Then, even though everything worked properly in the Game controller view in windows, when I started FOFIX, it'd scramble the Drum controller, the Xbox light would start flashing, and it'd no longer work. If I unplugged it and plugged it back in, it'd would work, but then the Guitar controllers would be screwed up. and round and round it went
Here's a view of some of the controllers installed.
More trial and error and I discovered that the wireless guitars have 3 "modes", PS2, PS3 Guitar Hero, and PS3 Rockband. For whatever reason, in Rockband mode, the xbox drums screws them up.
But, I switched them both to Guitar hero mode and now FOFIX loads up and can control all three with no hicupps.
Sweetness!
Here's a screen shot of the FoFix Rockband theme. It's really nicely done.
But, alas, all was not well. Mame was screwed. All my controllers had been remapped when I plugged up the guitars and drums.
That story is for another post, though. I've gotta get something to eat.
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