CP Almost Complete !!!!

[Oldskool]

I feel like this is a birth announcement  

After two days of drilling, laminating, routing, installing controls and t-molding, I'm almost complete, except for a pile of wiring to do.

[Stingray]

Oooooh! Shiny! Love those joysticks!

-S

[CthulhuLuke]

I don't get the button configuration?  unless you have a grotesquely long thumb?  lol, well the construction looks good, translucent leaf pushbuttons are awesome, and those joysticks fit it quite nicely.  I hope you're going to have a long flourescent light underneath there or something to keep those pushbuttons lit up, translucent pushbuttons always look good with some nice backlighting.
     -weird config, but cool looking

[Oldskool]

I don't get the button configuration?

Ah....the button configuration.

My mockup CP had 6 buttons per player (fighter style), and after a test run, I decided that I didn't like it at all.

Of all the old games, there was two that I could think of with "different" button configs, those being Defender and Asteroids.

The "long thumb" button as you put it, is really a reverse button for Defender, to be hit with the left thumb. It will also come in handy for Battlezone as well.  

It was a bit of a pain to install the reverse button as I placed it fairly close to the joystick (I had to scalp a bit off of the t-nut).

I only really needed one of the reverse buttons, but I wanted the buttons to be identical on both sides.

With the 5 buttons, I can still play Asteroids effectively.

To get the spacing of the four "right hand" buttons, I just placed my hand on the CP, and marked them.

It may not look it, but a lot of thought (and indecision) went into this  


 

[Oldskool]

translucent pushbuttons always look good with some nice backlighting.

I'm toying with the idea of having a dedicated LED for each pushbutton. The L.A.M.E. project would be an ideal tie-in.

http://lamearcade.com

I wanted to go with dark blue and red translucent buttons (long), but the closest I could find were light blue and orange.

[Stingray]

It was a bit of a pain to install the reverse button as I placed it fairly close to the joystick (I had to scalp a bit off of the t-nut).

I had a similar problem with my CP but it was because I have a pretty narrow (23") CP, and not because I was trying to get a button really close to a joystick. I had to shave a little cresent out of the base of one of my joysticks.

-S

[DYNAGOD]

sweet looking.
the black and the polished 304 stainless along with the translucent pushbuttons works nicely..

[Goz]

Looks great.

 Where did you score the custom joy shafts / balls?

-Goz

[Oldskool]

Where did you score the custom joy shafts / balls?

The two eight-ways are P360s with SS shafts from slikstik.com.

NOTE: Buying these sticks, while I do indeed like them, was a lesson learned that you should never shop for arcade stuff online with several beers in your gut, and a credit card in hand. Ugh.

The four-way stick is a Wico leaf.

[Harakiri]

I love your CP! Sorry this question but from wich materials are madde your CP? Define them please or do you have a site?

[Oldskool]

Define them please or do you have a site?

No site......yet.

I am taking a lot of pictures should I decide to do one some day.

Define the parts....? Lemme see....

5/8" MDF - Home Depot
Formica black laminate - Home Depot
Flat black T-moulding - Purchased online
3" Atari trackball (blue translucent) - Bob Roberts
Trackball mounting plate - Bob Roberts
Translucent (leaf switch) buttons - Bob Roberts
Model 3 Spinner - Oscar Controls
Wico leaf joy - Ebay
P360 Joysticks and stainless handles - Slikstik.com
Opti-pac / Ipac / microswitch buttons - Ultimarc
Blue and Black paint (Varathane Colours in Plastic) - Home Depot
Beer - The Beer Store

Good enough  

 

[Oldskool]

The obligatory wiring pic.......