J-Rcade Box

[J-Rod]

My old site went down, and I figured I'd rehost some of the pics with commentary on googlepages. Alas, I haven't done much more with it due to budgetary concerns, and the IRS apparently wants paid. The original rackmount 1u PSU went bad, couple of the capacitors popped. If anyone knows where to get a good one on the cheap, drop me a line.

I haven't even really used the controls much these days, I have everything running through mamewah and a logitech wireless. I can navigate all the menus, esc and alt-f4 from anything, and shut the pc down when I am done without getting up. My next project with this will be to build a box of sorts that will conform to a lap, have happs controls, and be wireless to connect up to this unit. Either that or make a full sit down racer. I doubt I will win the fight with the wife on either of those.

http://jrodder.googlepages.com/j-rcade

[Cameronj]

I really like it!

Go for the sit down racer!!!!

[dudebozo]

SIT DOWN RACER, SIT DOWN RACER, SIT DOWN RACER
 

but yeah, nice build.  very interesting.  do you have any issues with heat.  you have a pretty nice lil fan to probably exhausted out that warm air, that i saw on your website.  looks pretty handy in case you want to jet over to a friends house, kind of like the lil shuttle computers that people take to lan parties.  nice build

[J-Rod]

Yeah I am leaning toward the racer as well, just such a freaking money sink. I have a non-working cab sitting on my front porch, I think a more viable idea would be to try and refurbish it as cheaply as possible, and sell for a profit, and then take those funds and apply them to the next project. Wife can't complain too much when it's profit money.

Heat has never been an issue, I have had several others ask me about that as well. Apparently when people have made similar stuff they might have went with a smaller fan or something, not sure. That's a 12v beast, and runs very quiet actually. The old 1u PSU I had was much noisier. The only issue is I should have angled the controls a bit differently, so that each person could be confortable at something like 30 degrees or so, rather than the straight on I have. It's still not too bad, and it was designed more for kids use in mind, while dad can be a lazy bastard and play from the couch.