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Idea for a new cab. Comments welcome
Centipeed:
After talking with some of the very helpful people on the forum, I have mainly gone against everything they have said ( ;D ) and come up with this idea:
A portable cab that is basically a monitor (Small, 13-15") in a box, but angled upwards. You basically place whatever computer tower you want on the back, where a kind of tray is, and then you plug it in to the extending wires... The front is customizable to have whatever control panel you want, as you just place it on and fix it on some how, and put the wire through the hole. I am personally going to use one gamecube arcade stick connected through a usb adapter to the computer, and have a space for an extra one...
I guess it's basically a bartop, and I like it because of the versatility and small size...
Check out the diagram below...
Centipeed
SideShow Rob:
I'd be more inclined to take the PC out of the tower case.
Increase the height slightly of the monitor housing, and mount the PC motherboard, PSU, HDD etc. in the space beneath the monitor.
That would have the benefit of making the whole rig "portable", and not having an ugly PC tower looming in the background. You would probably have to have a couple of fans installed...2 120mm case fans (so they spin slower, and be quieter than standard 80mm case fans) - one taking in cool air over your PC components, the other expelling it
Check out all the BarTop examples...and see which ones have installed the PC components inside the cabinet...and how they have done it. There is also an example here, but I haven't looked at it in too much detail:
http://pacfan69.tripod.com/cabinets/id8.html
Centipeed:
I CANNAE DO IT CAPAIN!
Actually, the reason I want to use the whole "Place your tower here" idea is that I can't afford a new computer, and the computer I am going to place there is my normal one, hence the not-wanting-to-take-it-apart-and-place-inside-a-box-thing going on... I still want to use the tower for normal computer stuff... If I am ever able to afford another computer I will have a special Just mame one, but I can't do that right now... And this way anyone can put their PC into the space and then play the games arcade style...
Thanks for the suggestion though :)
pointdablame:
If you're going for portability, why even bother putting the tray in the back of the monitor. It will just make the bartop longer and more awkward to handle.
You already know there is going to be a computer right behind the screen.... you might as well just put it on the table behind it and make the bartop easier to move.
Centipeed:
Hey, great suggestion... :D I never thought of that
Thanks!
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