The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: sparcade on December 26, 2007, 10:02:07 pm
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Hi All,
I'm new to the board, but have been using the byoac site over the past couple months
while I built my own MAME cabinet.
I kept a photo log of my build process which you can find here if interested....
http://arcade.scalzisoftworks.com
Any comments are welcome. I look forward to some input for my next project which
will be a stand alone juke box.
Cheers.
(http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa216/rscalzi/ARCDEC12/AC_003.jpg)
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Very nice. Congratulations on getting it done! :applaud:
I'm in the middle of the long journey myself and made my first "cuts" today. Once the CP is cleaned up, I'll be posting pictures too.
I really like the green/black contrast there.
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Thanks Jdurg. I was a little worried how the green and black would go together, but
I think it turned out pretty good. Good luck on your build.
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Very nice judging from the pics - only think are the visible screws on the CP - maybe you might place some black plastic screw caps on them. Anyway, nice to see a different colour variation other than black-blue ; )
Btw: Didn't you sponsor your kid a breathing mask for sanding? ; )
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Akuma,
I was actually trying to let the bolts show on the CP. I don't think I quite got the look I was going for with them, but there was a method to the madness.
How it was supposed to work: I can remove just 4 bolts and the top and sides of the CP slide right off. The CP uses 6 wire plugs to plug into front wall of the cabinet which then leads back to the KeyWiz. My thoughts were I could swap CP's out with out too much trouble. Sort of plug and play. Of course I have not built any another CP's yet :-)
It turned out that the CP top fit snuggly enough on that I could attach it to the rest of the Cp with just one hidden screw, so it the end, I probably would have just used formica right over where those bolts are now.
(http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa216/rscalzi/CP.jpg)
Oh, the pic of my kid sanding, mostly just for show, but it made him fell good :D
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I see, I see. I am not quite finished with my project yet, but I am going for something similar (detachable CP). My experience is that I didn't have to use any fixation like screws - the CP rests perfectly on the CP housing. Anyway: It's you (and your kids) who have to like the outcome, not people like me as we all build our cabs for ourselves : ) :cheers: So if you like the bolts, all is fine : ) Oh, and your plugs look very user friendly, unlike mine :-\
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Good job!!
:applaud: :applaud:
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Good job!!
:applaud: :applaud:
Ditto, looks nice and clean :)
You could have gone for Spartacade...
(http://bp2.blogger.com/_g3nMKUraWkQ/RiUWe4T4z9I/AAAAAAAAASg/nzIcM91xx-k/s400/300-43.jpg)
Trackball in his mouth anyone? Actually that would be more like Gimpcade! :D
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Just wanted to document with a couple updated pics.