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A Mame machine in an antique buffet - USB probs solved (I think!)
drventure:
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--- Quote from: smalltownguy on June 26, 2012, 04:08:15 pm ---BUMP!! Anything new on this??
;D ;D ;D
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Last time is was switched on, it disappeared through some kind of portal.
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Not so much a portal as an iris
:)
(that's not mine by the way, but damn, I wish I could build one of those... Another project.)
Actually, Since I finished up my antique radio->touchscreen jukebox project, I've been slowly making my way back to the buffet.
But it's playable, so that's been a tad of the kiss of death as far as project time goes with it ;D
Still, my main target now is to get the screen rotating ala grandfather clock pulleys and brass cable.
I did finally get my volume control worked out though.
I found a very nice app called 3rvx, which, along with a short autohotkey script lets me use my spinner, while holding down a specific button, to adjust volume very easily, with the added benefits of
1) forcing the volume to a predefined "normal" on boot
2) visuallizing the setting via 3rvx (which is completely and easily skinnable)
drventure:
Wow. Ok, been a few months since I had any time to work on the buffet, but I'm slowly getting back to it.
There's been a few threads concerning the wiimote that I've been watching recently, so I decided to take another stab at getting it working.
This time around, I've actually had a little success.
Here's the wiimote pairing details I've come up with so far.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,122286.msg1297956.html#msg1297956
One minor issue that I'm not sure I can do much about is that my custom made IR transmitter bar inadvertently appears to narrow the ir illumination a tad.
The end result is that it +seems+ like the Wiimote camera's field of view is fairly limited.
However, I've never played a real wii, so it's tough to tell. Once I get power wired permanently to the IR Bar and experiment more with glovepie converted Wiimote to mouse (or whatever it does to connect wiimote data to mame), I should know more.
Finally, I've just about got a circuit put together to allow me to use this
To actually power up (or power off) the cabinet.
Believe it or not, I started +that+ little side project back in 2009. Ugh. The first round kind of worked, but had issues.
But I believe all those are solved.
Many thanks to DaOldMan for helping me sort a few of the finer EE points out. I'll be posting a schematic once I actually get it all hooked up.
thatpurplestuff:
Coolest arcade power switch ever? Haha love the look of that thing... glad to see you're staying busy!
drventure:
@thatpurplestuff
Thanks. It's nice to get a few minutes to get back on this build. I've actually been doing a little software config as well (led animations, slight Mala theme changes, speeding up boot time, etc) but none of that's interesting enough to post, I suspect. :)
monkeychunkuk:
This machine is amazing
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