The Summer of Chuff - Chufftober 2014 - PBJ'S Moldy Meat

[yotsuya]

Le Chuck and Jimmy are sniffing in the right spot.

How funny, I know at least two other guys considering building fruit machines... and I'm one of them. 

[Vigo]

I'd love to see a home built fruit machine. 

[yotsuya]

I'm looking to do something bartop-style for my mom.

[pbj]

I'd love to see a home built fruit

Quite a few of those around here.

[Generic Eric]

I'd love to see a home built fruit

Quite a few of those around here.

The less the build looks like an 8 liner, the better. Or maybe you mean something else.

  I tried the  fruit machine emulator and I really didn't get it.  I'll be interested to watch this progress.

[yotsuya]

I'd love to see a home built fruit

Quite a few of those around here.

The less the build looks like an 8 liner, the better. Or maybe you mean something else.

  I tried the  fruit machine emulator and I really didn't get it.  I'll be interested to watch this progress.

I'll make a thread (and maybe the others will, too) once it gets past the planning phase.

[Slippyblade]

Never understood the draw of slot machines, I'm assuming a "fruit machine" is just a variant.  Completely random.  Why bother?  At least card/dice/roulette have some level of skilled involved...

[Generic Eric]

Never understood the draw of slot machines, I'm assuming a "fruit machine" is just a variant.  Completely random.  Why bother?  At least card/dice/roulette have some level of skilled involved...

It's all about the bonus game! 

@ yotsuya

Any touchscreens?  It's screaming to play be jeweled don't you think?

[PL1]

For a moment there, I thought Vigo was going to attempt Yaksplat's unfinished Bryan's Payramid reproduction.   


Scott

[Vigo]

I wish I had the chops to try that one. 

No, I am surprised nobody mentioned the genre I'm going for yet....Most people around here consider it to be nothing but a horrible, MAME infesting plague.

[PL1]

When you put it that way, sounds like you're doing a mahjongg build.      


Scott

[Vigo]

Haha, you are right on the money. 

The mission will be to make a classy table top mahjong machine. Gonna just jump in head first. I don't read Japanese, I don't know how to play the game, and I don't even know how many games would be left after removing the "strip mahjong" titles. I have no idea how easily a universal control panel can be made. I don't even know if I would like the game after learning. It will be a cool experiment.

[EightBySix]

I'm going to build a new shed from scratch. Windows are in progress, building them in advance of the main bits going up during the holidays. I'll have to change my name to NineBySeven though. An extra 15sq feet, yay!

[Le Chuck]

Haha, you are right on the money. 

The mission will be to make a classy table top mahjong machine. Gonna just jump in head first. I don't read Japanese, I don't know how to play the game, and I don't even know how many games would be left after removing the "strip mahjong" titles. I have no idea how easily a universal control panel can be made. I don't even know if I would like the game after learning. It will be a cool experiment.

What the hell do you think "tile" games are?! I want credit for the right answer. Adjust the score!


Wut? There aren't forum points?  Never mind.

[yotsuya]

I'm going to build a new shed from scratch. Windows are in progress, building them in advance of the main bits going up during the holidays. I'll have to change my name to NineBySeven though. An extra 15sq feet, yay!

I'd love to see the progress on that! I'm considering something similar in July.

[Vigo]

Haha, you are right on the money. 

The mission will be to make a classy table top mahjong machine. Gonna just jump in head first. I don't read Japanese, I don't know how to play the game, and I don't even know how many games would be left after removing the "strip mahjong" titles. I have no idea how easily a universal control panel can be made. I don't even know if I would like the game after learning. It will be a cool experiment.

What the hell do you think "tile" games are?! I want credit for the right answer. Adjust the score!


Wut? There aren't forum points?  Never mind.

oh, sorry man. I though you were referring to those mahjong "match" games like my mom played in the 90's when she got tired of snood.

5 points to Le Chuck. only 745 to go to get the kool-aid pitcher and cup set.

[Nephasth]

NIB?  you dog!

Yes sir. She got here 3 weeks ago.

my Summer chuff is to break into Nephast's house when he is gone and steal that sexy AC/DC pinball machine.

She got a little sexier a couple days ago...


Helen and Luci make a good pair. (Don't mind Dmen, the girls have him in a trance...)

[Le Chuck]

Started vacation yesterday!  Going to be spending a week with the fam on the beach but bookending that I'm getting some chufftastic shop time myself.  On top of the Game of Thrones Pedestal I finished this month I've:

Done a rebuild on a yoke to send off to the UK
Tracked down a SW cab that had been turned into an Akari Warriors (not kidding, it's dreadful) and hopefully will rescue that if I can get the price right
Picked up a commission for a cornhole set
Am dedicating the next few days to finishing R2's drink tray - well under way
Picked up some more parts for Idle Fingers Starfighter
Redid the HTPC in the house - MALA as the FE for the movies of all things - works sweomes!
Did some freelance PC work

It's chuffariffic!  If everything goes to plan I might even start one of those crazy OND cocktail cabs by the end of the summer.  You know the one. 

[yotsuya]

Good week so far....

On Tuesday, I helped a buddy put in a wood floor. Maybe I'm stupid, but I love doing projects like those. I was especially happy because everything just seemed to fit. I honestly credit it to arcade cab building. It's improved my skills tremendously.

Last three days have been spent working on two projects - the custom Wi-Fi sound system for my daughter's birthday, and the restoration of an empty, beat to all hell Nintendo cab I was given. The Nintendo cab is just about stripped (they used this god-awful Orange latex to paint over the entire cab, and it appears the original finish was stripped completely off in a very haphazard way). The Wi-Fi system has evolved over the week, and I am very happy quite chuffed at where it's at. I love how projects evolve over time.

Photos when it's all done. Her birthday is Monday, so I'm under the gun!

[HaRuMaN]

On Tuesday, I helped a buddy put in a wood floor. Maybe I'm stupid, but I love doing projects like those. I was especially happy because everything just seemed to fit. I honestly credit it to arcade cab building. It's improved my skills tremendously.

[Le Chuck]

[Howard_Casto]

(man I'm gonna get a lot of mileage out of this image)

[yotsuya]

Finished the WiFi-HiFi today and gave it to my daughter early. She loved it. I wan't happy with he paint job, but she didn't care (not that it's horribly bad or anything). It was a fun week-long summer project. Now on to the Nintendo cab !

[pbj]

Ryu and Chun Li were quite chuffed in Dallas today

[Slippyblade]

I don't get it...  My wife refuses to wear a Chun-Li outfit no matter how often I ask.  Silly woman.

[yotsuya]

Finally picked up one of these for the gameroom. It doesn't work, but if I can't fix it, I'm going to hack in an MP3 player or AirPlay setup!

[Generic Eric]

Finally picked up one of these for the gameroom. It doesn't work, but if I can't fix it, I'm going to hack in an MP3 player or AirPlay setup!

Your very own ghetto blaster!  That is cool!

[yotsuya]

Finally picked up one of these for the gameroom. It doesn't work, but if I can't fix it, I'm going to hack in an MP3 player or AirPlay setup!

Your very own ghetto blaster!  That is cool!

Thanks, Eric. I've been looking for a while. I opened it up. Some poor cassette tape had it's guts ripped out and eaten by this beast. 

My multimeter shows that it's getting power in through the transformer, but it's not turning on. I don't see any tell-tale dead caps, so I'm not sure where to go next. Probably going to disassemble and hack. There's plenty of room inside for what I need to do.

[Howard_Casto]

Get an amp and an ipod dock... done. 

[Le Chuck]

There's plenty of room inside for what I need to do.

You're not kidding.  That thing is bigger than Kaneda's apartment. 

[Generic Eric]

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at your side.

[yotsuya]

Get an amp and an ipod dock... done. 

I got a spare Lepai and an Airport Express just ready to drop in this bad boy. I'm going to run the device LEDs off a 5v wall wart. Whoooo!!

[Generic Eric]

Finally picked up one of these for the gameroom. It doesn't work, but if I can't fix it, I'm going to hack in an MP3 player or AirPlay setup!

Your very own ghetto blaster!  That is cool!

Thanks, Eric. I've been looking for a while. I opened it up. Some poor cassette tape had it's guts ripped out and eaten by this beast. 

My multimeter shows that it's getting power in through the transformer, but it's not turning on. I don't see any tell-tale dead caps, so I'm not sure where to go next. Probably going to disassemble and hack. There's plenty of room inside for what I need to do.

Any sign of exploded batteries?  Dirty or broken power switch?

[yotsuya]

There's plenty of room inside for what I need to do.

You're not kidding.  That thing is bigger than Kaneda's apartment.

Dude, do you know how much a boombox goes for in Manhattan nowadays?

[yotsuya]

Any sign of exploded batteries?  Dirty or broken power switch?

No corrosion or anything. It's actually pretty clean inside. The switches all seem to be OK. It just won't turn on. That's OK, I bought it for the outsides - I don't care if I don't get FM radio... not like I want to play Ke$ha in my gameroom or anything like that!

[Le Chuck]

Even if you did get it working that thing prolly only receives radio from the 1980s.

[yotsuya]

Even if you did get it working that thing prolly only receives radio from the 1980s.

Creepy. Sounds like a movie staring Emilio Estevez, Catherine Mary Stewart, and that dude that played Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley.

[ChadTower]

It ain't really boomboxing unless you have $27 in D batteries powering it.

[eds1275]

It ain't really boomboxing unless you have $27 in D batteries powering it.

Good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read that. As a kid, batteries were everything for me. If I didn't have batteries, all my cool stuff wasn't cool anymore.


...does anything still take c or d's?

[ChadTower]

...does anything still take c or d's?

Sports bras.