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Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: Hornpipe2 on December 21, 2008, 06:50:00 pm
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EDIT: Current status - complete - check here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,87731.msg1425676.html#msg1425676 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,87731.msg1425676.html#msg1425676)
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I've got time off over Christmas and I'm using it to finally finish my vertical cocktail cabinet. Based somewhat off Kyle Lindstrom's plans, with a couple modifications and a 19" TV.
The easiest way to follow along with the progress is to click here, as my recent work is fully documented with pictures.
http://greg-kennedy.livejournal.com/tag/arcade+cabinet (http://greg-kennedy.livejournal.com/tag/arcade+cabinet)
Feel free to comment! I'll keep bumping this when I post more to my LJ.
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Click the link above for today's update: putting the TV in its place.
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J a quick FYI, most people generally (including me) are too lazy to follow a blog when the whole point of BYOACs PA thread is to blog your progress, especially when the blog is hard to follow/navigate.
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All right, I'll probably just keep doing this until the whole thing is done and then put the highlights in this thread :)
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That's fair enough if you want to do that. The main point of posting in this sub-forum (generally) is to get the help and advice from people who can aid you (if you need it).
I imagine (from what I have seen) that you will get replies to your blog but not generally replies that will help you.
If that's the case and you need no help (wish I was that lucky :)). great. I look forward to seeing the result.
Good luck with it :cheers:
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bah... no pics...
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OK you guys win, here are some pictures:
Here it is running Galaga:
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg120/Hornpipe2/arcade_cab/DSCF0005.jpg)
and here is the cracked PCB of my keyboard hack caused by dropping a hammer in the machine :angry:
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg120/Hornpipe2/arcade_cab/DSCF0003-1.jpg)
Now I will go drown my sorrows in Christmas alcohol while I lament the time I will lose trying to repair this thing without being able to actually remove the CPs. I guess that's not so bad :cheers:
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So I finally got back to this project. Spent 30 minutes fixing up the keyboard hack (it took three little jumper wires to bypass the cracked traces), and then 2 hours playing instead of doing actual work on it : )
MAME Arcade Cocktail Cabinet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnLK0pyT5MQ#)
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By the way. I did eventually finish this.
The complete write-up is here:
https://sites.google.com/site/cocktailcabinet/ (https://sites.google.com/site/cocktailcabinet/)
And the "overview" video is here:
MAME Arcade Cocktail Cabinet (100% Complete) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B-e1VHcKfU#)
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The information is slightly outdated. The 1/8" glass shattered and I replaced it with plexi.