Nvts’s mountain’s Jukebox (revealed!)

[mountain]

I just hooked mine up for a test run and had the same problem.
I had to remove the foam rubber weatherstripping I had put around the edge of the monitor opening in the acrylic.
It was touching the lines Mountain talked about.
I removed the weatherstripping and now it works good.
I wish I could easily remove the acrylic and make another one. I would extend the edge of the acrylic about another 1/2" all the way around the monitor, I think that would allow me to use the weatherstripping. It looks a lot better with the weatherstripping filling the gap between the monitor glass and the acrylic. Plus if I could re-do the acrylic, I could fix that one corner I screwed up.
Oh well..

I attached the foam tape to the back side of the acrylic and then mounted the monitor accordingly. I left a gap about 1/32" between the foam tape and the monitor.

[DaOld Man]

Ok, I will try that. I had the weather stripping stuck to the back of the acrylic like you said, but it was thick enough to touch the screen. Is it possible to cut that stuff down?
I think it might not have been touching at the top, cause on my screen calibration I could move the cursor on the top half of the screen, but not the bottom.
I noticed that the monitor mounts are a little off from top and bottom, but I thought it would angle the screen back a tad bit, maybe make it better to see, so I didnt try to even it up on the MDF mount.
This may be why the foam wasnt touching the top??

[Nvts]

I can tell that the connection is functional, as I can touch between the two contacts in the bottom left corner, and see movement on the screen.  I cleaned the hell out of it, and still cant get a normal touch to work.  <sigh>  I'm starting to think I am hosed.

[Nvts]

I gave up on the touch screen, and ordered another one.  It got here last Saturday, and I spent a couple days getting it into shape.

Last night I revealed the Project to the GF, and she really loved it.   I didn't have any of the wiring done, and had the three cords coming out the back door and the back panel was not glued in, and the rear T Molding was not one, and the system still has the old hard drive (with 2000 on it), and the Marquee was still a test print on paper...  and this and that and etc...


But it was truly a huge hit.  Many thanks to Mountain for the original, and everyone else who is working on one or helped out. 

I'll still update it as I finish it, but here it was as I pulled the sheet off of it.  Using Freebox as the front end at the moment, but we will check out a few other ones and see what she likes best.

[DaOld Man]

Looks real good Nvts! Cant wait for more pictures.
Since I was cutting it very close on time, I printed out my marquee on my PC printer, with plans of getting someone in the art department to re-do it for me, make it look professional.
But my wife says there is no way we are getting it re-printed, says she wants it original.
I guess that has its pluses and minuses. I dont have to worry about it, but still I know it would look better with better artwork.
Anyway, great job! It's truly a relief (and a great joy) to get a project like this finished.

Did you decide to go with the dvd drive?

[drawfull]

Eck, I want a black glossy one - great job!

Can you let me know (or the post!) how you get on with Freebox, I have lotsa bugs with Touchtone Audio ?

[kizer]

Just try Freebox a lot of us have and still use it.

That Marquee cracks me up.

[Franco B]

Great Job Nvts     

Are you not getting on well with your Touchtone software drawfull? I was thinking of giving it a go after seeing it on your build but I won't bother if you don't rate it.

[drawfull]

Are you not getting on well with your Touchtone software drawfull? I was thinking of giving it a go after seeing it on your build but I won't bother if you don't rate it.

There's a screwy playlist bug which is the main issue. It might only be when using iTunes as the back-end player, but if you have a lot of songs stacked for no reason it suddenly deletes them one by one and plays random songs from that point. Developer recommended I try the beta, but prob persists and only a restart of the software (temporarily) fixes it.

I'm going to give some others, including freebox a try. But now I'm back to the iTunes DRM issue

[Barry Barcrest]

I think mountain is using freebox as well now but i am not sure. This design is realy nic, there is just no way i have the skills to pull anything off like this, well done sir.