Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Woodworking => Topic started by: Morgan1109 on January 12, 2014, 10:22:27 pm
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I am building my first cocktail cabinet. I'm stuck on joystick and button locations. It's a standard cabinet. The surface is 9 inches wide by 5 inches deep. I am putting in a joystick and two action buttons.
Should the joysticks and buttons in the middle (2 1/2 in)? Should I bias them toward the player a bit? Should the buttons be offset differently than the joystick? I've seen them closer and farther away from the player.
Where in the 9 inch width should they reside? I would think the joystick needs to be at least 3 inches from the side? Maybe 4 inches? How much should the buttons have from the side?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Stephen
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Your best bet might be to grab a spare piece of wood and mock them up. Three inches from the side seems like a good distance IMO but do you have any pictures?
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here are a couple pictures. The control panels are primed, but will be painted black in a day or two.
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I probably should mention the main play field was cut at a 5 degree angle to give another half inch or so under the glass.
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I would follow the template that has been around here before of the correct distance between buttons and joystick and I would make sure the joystick was a couple inches from the side. So if the buttons were close to the right side than the joystick was I would be fine with that.
What you might want to so is cut a piece of cardboard that is the same size and drill joystick/botton holes out of it and attach them and put it in the place of your cocktail table and see how it feels.
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Can you point me to the template you mentioned?
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for better or worse I've got the layout I am going with. The center lines are drawn an are 3 inches and 4 5/8 inches for reference. The joystick is 2 1/2 inches from each side. It is slightly biased toward the player since 3 inches is the center line. The two action buttons are 1 1/2 inches and 3 and 1/4 inches from the side. It will also sit on the 2 and 1/2 inch line as the joystick does. The start button is set in between the two action buttons and 1 and 1/2 inches from the back.
Hopefully this works because once I punch holes it is over, heh heh
Thanks,
Stephen
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What are you using to run the cocktail? Computer? ArcadeSD? 60-in-1?