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postkassen:
Hi!

I know this doesnt really have anything with arcades, but from the looks of the site and this forum, I think this is the best place to get help with my project.

I want to make a casino-wheel-of-fortune kinda setup with a wheel hanging on the wall that you can spin and that has names of songs on it, so depending on where the wheel stops, it will play an mp3 on a computer. Not a big thing, someting like 1.5 feet in diameter.

Now, I have no idea on how to set this thing up, communication with the computer and all, and if you guys could give me some pointers on how I could solve this, Id be extremely grateful!

- postkassen

SeaMonkey:
**whistles**

Wow..that's quite the project.

You would want to get an MP3 front-end that associated a keystroke with a song. That doesn't exist right now, that I know of.

But if it did, then you would wire a switch for each notch of the wheel to a keystroke...that would tell the software what song to play. If you had the front end, the wheel part would be easy. You would just run each circuit to a keyboard encoder. Spin the wheel, it lands on Xanidu by Olivia Neuton John, it sends "X" to the computer, and the software loads Xanidu.

Now the tricky part would be that all of the switches will hit as the wheel spins. Maybe a hack of Happs rotary joystick would be better, with druin's rotary board.

Now if that is just a basic idea. You still need somebody to program a front end for you, unless somebody knows of a software that will work.

Maybe some kind of batch operation software?

I would like to see this topic get some more ideas.

postkassen:
I think this page: http://www.modasylum.com/guides.php?guide=21&page=0 describes something that could work, an easy to build 15 button com-port interface that can be used with a winamp- plugin or with girder: http://www.promixis.com/

however i cant think of a good solution for the wheel, to make it just press one button when it stops.

rdagger:
You could also go with a simple counter.   You could rig the wheel to a microswitch that clicks every time a song on the wheel passes.  Then hook up the microswitch to a simple keyboard hack.  You could then write a simple program to count clicks and then play the appropriate song.  The one drawback is that the wheel would need to be initially spun from the same start point.  After the first spin the program could track the current song and subsequent songs.  Also the wheel could only be spun on one direction.

For the wheel mechanics you should look at some of the forum posts regarding building spinners.

Sounds like a fun project that could be implemented in many ways.

Chris:

--- Quote from: SeaMonkey on December 08, 2004, 04:02:42 pm ---**whistles**

Wow..that's quite the project.

You would want to get an MP3 front-end that associated a keystroke with a song. That doesn't exist right now, that I know of.

--- End quote ---
DOSCab/Wincab Jukebox can do this in SingleLetter mode, but only for up to 10 songs.  I could add more for a one-off version if the rest of the project came together, I suppose... how many songs did you want this wheel to support?

--Chris

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