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Decent MAME Spinner?
spystyle:
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RandyT:
--- Quote from: spystyle on December 11, 2006, 03:45:42 pm ---Why bother building anything at all when you can buy it?
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That is a perfectly reasonable question to ask when
A: The quality is much higher
and
B: The cost is comparable. (Note that costs are not always associated only with cash)
But I will answer your question with a few of my own:
How many here build their own joysticks? Do you? Why not?
Does that mean you didn't "build your own arcade controls" because it uses IL joysticks? Does it also mean that you did not build the spinner because you purchased every one of the items that make it up and used it in a different way than it was intended?
My take may not be the same as others, but this site has primarily been about making control panels from whatever was readily and reasonably available in order to best duplicate the arcade experiences we remember. Six years ago, when that PDF was published, we had to do an awful lot of McGuyvering to get the job done. Technology marches on in spite of the methods of the past, and what was a good idea 6 years ago looks entirely different today. To ignore this is to become quagmired and places an artificial ceiling on the quality of the end result.
However, In the spirit of "roll your own", let me make this suggestion; buy a trackball booster kit from my website and base your homebrew spinner on that. The encoders are laser cut from stainless steel, have 50% higher resolution than the dremeled ones and are a lot smaller. Plus you'll have an extra to give as a present to a friend. BTW, I don't build them myself, and the company that cuts them for me doesn't smelt their own metal. But that doesn't mean the we both didn't contribute significantly to their existence.
RandyT
spystyle:
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RandyT:
--- Quote from: spystyle on December 11, 2006, 05:09:05 pm ---*sigh*
It is unreasonable to build your own spinner because Randy sells them.
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If this is all you took from my comments, then that is all you were looking to take from them. Which is odd, as I never once stated nor alluded to this ideal. I'm only encouraging people to do it better, lest they go through what I did when I went down this path. OSCAR used to sell his encoder wheels separately so people could make a better homebrew spinner and I offered the same. If I was only interested in selling spinners, that would have been the last thing I'd have done.
Your comments are unfair / single sighted and you have made no attempt to speak to the points I have raised. But I will speak to yours (again)
--- Quote from: spystyle on December 11, 2006, 05:09:05 pm ---In the future he may sell CNC cut arcade cabinets - at that time it will become unreasonable to build an arcade cabinet using a jigsaw and wood because it's quality will be "subpar" to what can be purchased.
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This is ludicrous. You are comparing aesthetic construction with mechanical efficiency. They aren't even similar.
RandyT
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