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| Ginsu Victim:
Happs with Micro-leafs will probably be fine (and cost less to populate a full CP with compared to outfitting it with leafs). |
| bkenobi:
If you want to save your lungs and wallet a bit, you could use plywood for your mock up layout. I guess it will only save money if you go through a number of iterations and/or have no other use for plywood. I had some scavenged sheets sitting around, so I used that. MDF makes a lot of dust that will irritate your eyes, lungs, etc. and will be VERY messy to clean up (which Ginsu already said). If you use plywood, then you have a playable panel that won't cost as much and won't make all the dust. Your choice though. Oh, one other advantage: when you have a design you like, you also have a template you can use for drilling the final! |
| GaryMcT:
--- Quote from: bkenobi on July 17, 2009, 02:16:43 pm ---If you want to save your lungs and wallet a bit, you could use plywood for your mock up layout. I guess it will only save money if you go through a number of iterations and/or have no other use for plywood. I had some scavenged sheets sitting around, so I used that. MDF makes a lot of dust that will irritate your eyes, lungs, etc. and will be VERY messy to clean up (which Ginsu already said). If you use plywood, then you have a playable panel that won't cost as much and won't make all the dust. Your choice though. Oh, one other advantage: when you have a design you like, you also have a template you can use for drilling the final! --- End quote --- That's good to know. I picked up a mask and some goggles. I might have some plywood in the garage, I'll start with that if so. Thanks for the info! |
| GaryMcT:
All of my controls showed up today! I think I'm going to really like the U360! Haven't had a chance to try all of the restrictors and swap out the springs yet. I suspect that I'll end up with the circular restrictor and the stronger springs like most everyone else. The JLW feels good too. I got some of the adjustable micro-switches from GGG hoping that I can put those in there to get rid of some of the clickiness. Haven't gotten around to looking into that yet. The micro-leafs appear to be exactly what I want for the buttons! I've done some prototyping in paper so far. . couple more iterations there before I move on to cardboard. |
| Lilwolf:
Sorry for going in late for the thread... but... 1) admin buttons near the start buttons will cause problems 2) Sure on the curvature of the buttons? I think people should do it if the local arcades when you where growing up had them on the SF games... Otherwise have them straight across. 3) move that 4th bottom on the bottom to the right side. I had it like that once and hated it... but I guess you probably had someone say the opposite :) 4) I have my admin buttons as my side pinball buttons. Works great (but I do have kids kick my off my game when they are watching, when they get bored... but my kids are grown up a bit now and not a problem) 5) You don't need an enter key... just use your first button... 6) an insert speedup button is used more then pause 7) make a mock up. Go get an extra board either cheap or scrap or whatever that you put the buttons on before making it look nice. Wire it up and play for a week+. I've recreated in my 2 player 8way control panel maybe 10 times and thats one of the simpler control panels (but the most common used). Don't expect it to be perfect on your first run... Quick disconnects make it so you can rewire in 1/2 hour once you get yours 'production ready' good luck |
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