can anyone help this noob?

[IQ_online]

Ive been researching lately to build my own mame cabinet, but the control panel seems a little too daunting for someone new to this. i found that arcade controls.com is too general. can anyone point me out to a place with more info. http://www.cybertechdesign.net/mameroom/ and http://www.dreamauthentics.com/ seem to offer plans for specific models that im interested in but the price is a litle steep just for plans.

If anyone has plans like this or knows where i can find ones like them, it would help this noob out alot!

thanks

[rockhopper]

Check out the examples section on this page, a lot of them give step-by-step detail on how they were built/restored.  Check out Lusids plans also as a lot of cabinets seem to be based on this design.  Control panels are pretty easy if you can do the woodworking bit.  Interfacing to the computer is made even easier with a keypad encoder such as an I-PAC. again, have a look around the examples and you should get a better idea at how to go about things.

I'm currently building my first cabinet also, so welcome fellow noob!