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Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: Tense on September 19, 2011, 03:42:13 pm

Title: Bartop Arcade (unnamed)
Post by: Tense on September 19, 2011, 03:42:13 pm

Hey, guys... this might be my first post here. Though, I have been sneaking around for quite a while. I am building a bartop arcade and wanted to provide everyone with some Sketchup plans if they would be interested. I am in love with "Mike's Mini Mame" and though his documentation on the wiki if amazing... I would have loved to see some sketchup plans for it. So, using his as inspiration I have created my own bartop arcade. Its not nearly as nice, and because I am not particularly good with routing and beveling, I am using angles instead of curves. It is also my first time using SketchUp. I used kyoke's "R-Cade" marquee, purely for reference and would not, use it as the actual marquee... as it is their's and as such they have a right to their originality. :)

The plan is to make the control panels modular. I would wire the ipac/jpac using rj45 couplers and cat 6 wiring. That way you could switch out the control panel on the fly. Saving the individual control settings and loading them as needed. Would make it so, I could create different control panels depending on what I wanted to do. They would slide into the main arcade and snap in. Maybe along some guide rails at the bottom... I haven't fleshed that out yet.

I may actually, not use these at all and may go with a simpler design for my bartop. So, these are for the picking. Help yourself, but mind you they are not perfect. It is my first bartop design. :p

Thanks, guys... I hope to be around more often. Ask me anything you want.

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=2941821b807752939f93f28031f14cac (http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=2941821b807752939f93f28031f14cac)

(http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/download?mid=2941821b807752939f93f28031f14cac&rtyp=lt&ctyp=other&ts=1316461120000)

Title: Re: Bartop Arcade (unnamed)
Post by: vcoleiro1 on September 20, 2011, 07:07:27 am

Good luck with your build and keep us up to date with your project.

Title: Re: Bartop Arcade (unnamed)
Post by: Unstupid on September 20, 2011, 12:17:53 pm

Looks nice!...  Are those pinball buttons on the front of your control panel?