Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Crazy Cooter on October 07, 2023, 11:47:50 pm
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The scene:
Our current TV in the 3-season sunroom has been declared dead. I would like to replace it with a ~32" (old one was slightly smaller). The room is smallish, with glass french doors to enter and then basically 100% windows of some type so an upright wouldn't have a home at all without blocking at least one window. The old TV sat on a stand roughly the size of a midway cocktail cabinet along one wall so there is room for a cocktail cabinet and a couple stools. A cock tail cabinet wouldn't block any windows, and with the screen in a 'down position' would let in more light than before so...
I've seen the 3-sided cocktail cabinets where the screen tips up at an angle, but I've never seen one where the screen tips up a full 90-degrees. Are there examples out there or even an unbuilt sketch of something like this? Simple is better.
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Have you considered bartop designs? Bartops are naturally upright but have a relatively low profile.
Also, have you factored in glare? Your room gets a lot of light for most of the year. A cocktail, with a flat screen, might be unplayable in that environment. A bartop, with a more upright and slightly sheltered screen, will have much less glare. At the very least you can turn it away from the sun/reflections.
Bartops also take up less room and are easier to move than cocktails. If you make two, you could network them for multiplayer games, and you will both get plenty of elbow room :)
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You could make or build a TV lift stand.
It would work way better than using a cocktail cab doing double duty as a TV.
Then you are free to make whatever arcade cab you like and put it anywhere you want to.
Multifunction stuff always sounds great, but seldom works out as planned.