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Laminated upright cabinet. [99.9% done]
Dafu:
The panel turned out great! Bit of t-molding here, and there, and you're done!
drventure:
+1
Nice job on the panel!
syph007:
The only progress I made last night was to get the wiring under the panel done. I always admired all the fancy wire routing everyone usually does, so I was determined to do the same and make mine elaborate but neat.
It turned out that if you are using what I am, the wiring is actually very trivial.
I made up a wiring harness for each U360 stick, that interfaces the 6 buttons and the player button for each. I'm using a turbotwist set on the Z axis so that my happ trackball could be interfaced on the x and y of the controller board. I made my own cabling to connect it up, and it works just fine.
So in the end everything is connected and needs 3 usb cables coming out to interface to the PC.
I rolled my own mame build as well last night to modify the Z mouse raw handling as per urebelscum's findings. I also did the nag screen removal and removed the save/load slot select. I wanted to just hit one button to save or load and have it work without picking a slot.
All the changes worked perfect and I finally got to play some arkanoid and golden tee.
I added U bolts on my panel as tether points to hold it secure with small bungees from the inside. I added small guide pins as well to ensure it aligned properly. So far this works quite well, but I have industrial Velcro to add if needed.
Dafu:
Neat wiring job! I hope mine will be half as neat;)
What are the two u-shaped bolts for? Some kind of cp<->cb fastening system?
syph007:
I continued with wiring last night, and tackled one of the last irritating tasks I had to do which was to desolder and relocate the volume knob from my speakers. I figured it should have 3 connection points, but it ended up having 8. I used some spare cat5 cable I had around which worked out well since it also had 8 wires.
I'm not great at using those desoldering sucker things, but I eventually got it off and reattached. I had originally decided to relocate the headphone jack as well, but after doing that solder work, i'd had enough and figured it wasn't that important.
Only 2 pieces left now, admin panel and monitor glass. I'm going to have to cut out some of the front plastics of the tv to make room for my admin buttons, it's closer to the front than I thought, but I hope that goes ok.
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