Main > Project Announcements
A Mame machine in an antique buffet - USB probs solved (I think!)
Bender:
--- Quote from: billpa on May 27, 2009, 05:25:50 pm ---Yea if you could go with a 2.25 inch ball, you could get something cool
https://www.antiquespider.com/detail.asp?id=11531
https://www.antiquespider.com/detail.asp?id=6695
--- End quote ---
way F*&#ing cool! bettter than I could have imagined!
wonder how much those things go for?
billpa:
Yea I suppose a bit of a tease...looked at the links a second time and it appears they were sold already and not sure what the final price was. Oh well...the one you chose is pretty cool and would definitely look cooler with some creative lighting.
drventure:
Here's hoping. I think with some good lighting, it could look sweet. I'm a tad concerned about it being +actual+ crystal, will it be easily scratched by the trackball rollers, or (god forbid) break while being played.
But the guy I spoke with there indicated he'd seen these abused pretty badly and never break, so we'll see.
I'm also wondering if it'll grip the roller bearings good enough, but I thought if not, I might be able to take some heatshrink tubing, slip it over the rollers and shrink it, surely that'd give it more bite (and might prevent scratching to boot).
It'll be one big experiment!
drventure:
Grrr. Well, I got the globe in today, but it's 2.75" dia, NOT 3" :angry:
Needless to say, I'm bummed. And there's no way it'll work in a 3" happ trackball chassis.
I'm reaching out to my contact there to see if they could have just sent me the wrong size, but I'm betting this is it, and their web product description is just wrong.
Sigh
Well, time to keep hunting...
drventure:
The globes are on hold waiting for shipment, so I decided to try my hand at something new.
I've got a lot of "mechanical" stuff in this cab to raise and lower the cp, and it looks good, but not really what I had in mind.
So, am I the first to actually +upholster+ part of a cab? ;D
The legs are part of my dining table, not the cab :). I can't install it quite yet because I'm also upholstering around the Sewing machine lifts used to raise and lower the whole thing. it's those lifts that I +THINK+ I can automate eventually by taking out the pistons and replacing with linear actuators.
But that's down the road.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version