GM's back, with a new arcadey web page!

[grafixmonkey]

One half-dead Quadro4 video card, five reinstalls of WinXP, and a 100 gig drive crash later, I can finally get back on the forum.  So I'm back...

  ...   and now I have a website!

I finally got the thing done up enough to invite all you guys to check it out.  I'm going to be moving all my cab pics and any arcade- and circuits- related tutorials I do onto this site from now on.  Also, any older circuits and schematics that I did before are either there now or will be sometime soon, and I have some free time comin' up so if anybody thinks the BYOAC could use a tutorial for something, I'll give it a shot and post it on the site.

There's also a little mini-forum that you can post to without needing to register for it.  I put it there so that people could drop me a direct request for some graphics or help with a circuit, or ask about how my cab design works.  (I'm not trying to replace the BYOAC of course!)  It's there so I can keep track of discussions of my cab or my circuits, and not have them get buried in five pages of other BYOAC posts if I don't check the forum for two days.  And yes, I know the forum sucks right now.  It was free.  

Here she is:   http://www.bkgrafix.net/

Also, the website's primary function is to be something I can put on a resume when I apply for graphics related jobs, so it emphasizes my graphics work on the starting page.  Just click on "Arcade" on the left, and it'll take you right to the good stuff.  

[SpamMe]

Can you show how the 'free play when lit' circuit works?

[grafixmonkey]

good call, I hadn't thought about that...  I'll post somethin' soon

[SirPoonga]

Hey Gm, I nixed your main forum post.  People do view this forum quite abit.  look at views on other posts.

[grafixmonkey]

Yeah I noticed...  I realize this forum may get lots of hits, but it seems like a more limited set of names that I see in the posts.  I guess that doesn't necessarily mean that people aren't reading them though.

Either way, I got what I wanted, which was a post in the main forum.
(you may have nixed it, but it still links here.   )

[grafixmonkey]

Ok, haha, so I made my nice circuits page, but I forgot to have the index link to it.  I fixed that - you can now access the Circuits section.  

I also posted the circuit for my "Free Play When Lit" sign.

[SpamMe]

Great, thanks
How about a 'free play when light is pulsing' circuit (where the LED is either on or pulsing when a switch is flipped), cuz, uh, I've got no idea what I'm doing but I know what I'd like for my cabinet

[grafixmonkey]

Well, while you can do this, I don't know if you'd really want to build it just to get a pulsing light, and the light wouldn't so much pulse as flash on and off at a steady rate.  (You really want something down at the corner of your eye flashing all the time while you're playing?)

Basically this would end up being the circuit I posted, with the Rapid Fire chip from this circuit inserted in place of the voltage supply.  You would remove all the buttons and resistors though, so you'd just be soldering a bunch of pins to ground, attaching only one pot and two capacitors to the chip, and sticking a transistor on the output. (so four components total.)

If that sounds like something you want to do to make a light flash, then post on my Cool Gadgetry Forum at the bkgrafix.net forum and I'll walk you through it.

btw if you already have something that makes a light pulse like you want, you can hack that into it instead - I just can't think of anything offhand that would do that.