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quadmasta:

--- Quote from: fogman on January 20, 2005, 01:18:41 pm ---I have thought about doing something like this to project onto the marquee.  Any thoughts?

http://www.audiovisualizers.com/madlab/lcd_proj.htm

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The way that's instructing is ultra crappy.  The light would be all sorts of the wrong color and would throw the final colors of the projection WAY off. 

http://www.lumenlab.com  best $20 you'll ever spend if you're interested in projection.  There are guys running 12' screens at 720p for about $800 total investment.

fogman:
Have you built one of these or do youknow anyone who has?  I would love this kind of project, but I've always been afraid it would be worthless once I spent money and hours on doing it.

Feedback on the finished product owuld be appreciated!

tetsujin:

--- Quote from: Gamecab on January 19, 2005, 11:54:14 pm ---If anyone knows how to Hack an I-Opener LCD screen I would be willing to give it a try.  I have a spare 8x6 LCD screen just hanging around.

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Why hack the screen when you could just run a display server (X, for instance, or something simpler and customized?) on the iOpener?  Plug a USB network adaptor into it and fire away...  I don't think it would be any good as a marquee (too narrow) but as an auxiliary display...

I was considering using my iOpener for something like that in my cabinet.  The iOpener was fun for a while but it's not much use nowadays.  Too slow.  :)  But I could totally see using it as a programmable LCD display.

Captain_Dingo:
You know, I'm sitting here reading this, and thinking "I have this old ePods (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004YNWY/103-8956153-7792625?v=glance) laying around, I should use that for an LCD display on the cab somewhere"...

Then it hits me... The thing's got a touch screen.  Now I'm thinking of writing a front end that runs on the epods (connected to the PC over a serial connection) and then launches mame on the PC.  Once the game is launched, the ePods can serve as the admin buttons as well as display instructions and controls.

Now I just have to figure out where to put it in a cab...  Maybe a flip-down panel between the two speakers or something (kinda like a TV screen in some cars)

Trimoor:
The hardware is easy.  It's just plug and play.

The hard part is the software.  Has anyone found a way to interface it with MAME?  Have it take the game that's running, and display a single image on a second monitor?
It would be great is someone could write the software for a playchoice10 setup.  I have the hardware.....

A good use for an iOpener is a dynamic picture frame.

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