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Title: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: Ede on November 22, 2007, 06:36:51 am: Hi,

cause of too much time I had a little idear ;-) .

I tinker some hard and software to turn the monitor in my Konami Quadro cab automaticaly. I use PCBs beside MAME and MaLa as frontend. As you may know you can use plugins in MaLa witch reacts on events sended by MaLa. My plugin "RotateScreen" turns the monitor automaticaly by means of the hardware once the orientation of a chosen game changes.
I added a docu in english (actually more "denglish", sorry :-) ). A little video is found at:

http://www.members.dokom.net/aklasener/RotateScreen.dvix

The complete docu with pictures, circuit layout a.s.o. is found at:

http://www.members.dokom.net/aklasener/RotateScreen.zip

Have fun!
Greets, André
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: Cornchip on November 24, 2007, 09:43:11 am: Total perfection. 8)
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: blueznl on November 25, 2007, 05:39:51 am: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: Patent Doc on November 25, 2007, 04:04:40 pm: My my that was beautiful. GREAT JOB!! :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

:cheers:

Are there any ill effects for the monitor having to degause (sp?) after each rotation?

Again great job.

Patent Doc
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: csa3d on November 25, 2007, 05:29:50 pm: looks great! What type of motor and drive (pressure drive, chain drive) did you use?
-csa
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: Ede on November 26, 2007, 06:15:34 am: Hi,

thanks for the compliments!

@Patent Doc:

Hhmm, I thought about that and of course there is more waste if you turn the monitor often but there are no problems so far...

@csa3d:

As far as I know the motor is a wiper motor that runs on 12V. The monitor is screwed into a bicycle rim (no joke) and this rim is hold by four rubber rolls. A fifth rubber roll at the motor turns the monitor.
The whole construction is part of the cab and was made by the manufacturer. This is what makes this cab so wanted.

Ede
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: DaOld Man on November 26, 2007, 09:10:51 am: I could look at the wiring diagrams, but I cant open the video. What program do I need to open it?
BTW, good work!
:applaud:
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: Ede on November 26, 2007, 01:30:47 pm: You need DivX 6.7:

http://www.divx.com

EDE
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: javeryh on November 26, 2007, 01:49:48 pm: Is there anyway to post the video on youtube or something? I don't have divx capabilities (work computer).... :'(
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: danny_galaga on November 27, 2007, 04:42:25 am: just watched the vid. it works indeed! i really like that the menu is the right way up in either orientation (",)
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: Ede on November 27, 2007, 06:12:42 am: Quote from: javeryh on November 26, 2007, 01:49:48 pm
Is there anyway to post the video on youtube or something? I don't have divx capabilities (work computer).... :'(

Sorry, haven't got a youtube login. May be some other guy with such login can load it up...
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: Denverlatino on November 27, 2007, 10:59:56 pm: hope i did a favor to someone.... and please ede , make a dummy explanation for dummys like me, i will really like to get thta on my namco bartop cab...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/DpN882epeMQ[/youtube]
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: Ede on November 28, 2007, 03:20:00 am: Hi,

wow, many thanks to Denverlatino for the upload to youtube (Yippee, I'am on the net ;D )!

I don't know if my curcuit will run on your namco cause I made it especialy to trigger the turning mechanism of my Quardo (I don't know how this mechanism works :-[ ) but if you have any question send me an pm, I'll try to help as much as I can.
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: javeryh on November 28, 2007, 11:59:07 am: WOW!!! That is awesome. I'm definitely going to try setting something like that up in my new cabinet... I have no idea where to begin but I'll muddle through it I guess.
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: DaOld Man on November 28, 2007, 05:46:57 pm: Thanks denverlatino for posting that.
Ede, great job! I like it, I like it a lot!!
:applaud:
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: BrentRadio on December 04, 2007, 07:36:02 pm: That is by far the coolest thing in a mame cab that I have ever seen.

Great job!

Brent
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: Ede on December 10, 2007, 09:16:19 am: Hi,

I add a list for the needed devices (Bauteilliste) into the zip-file (Thanks to "MadMax").
Title: Re: Automatically turning monitor in Konami Quadro cab
Post by: Ede on December 21, 2007, 12:17:11 pm: Update of RotateScreen.zip:

New list for needed devices and a new layout for "strip grid boards" (sorry, don't know the exact word): Both circuits on one board! (Thanks to MadMax again!)