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mccoy178:

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--- Quote from: mccoy178 on January 09, 2010, 01:54:39 am ---Now if you could only hide all that wiring and stuff.........................

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It's low voltage signal wire, right? It's also got an excessively low switch rate.

In that case, run some enameled wire. No way it's going to be a crimp job. It's gotta be soldered and you might have to double or triple wire each lead for redundancy. It is, after all, not stranded wire but solid and comes with all the problems solid wire entails.

So solder one (or two or three) strands of enameled to a tab. Find some place to do a small loop (such as around the immobile plastic post on a button) as a strain relief, maybe a small dollop of hot glue. Run the the strand tight-ish to the nearest edge, another strain loop then run around the edge until you reach the controller. Might have to do some soldering to pigtails or directly to the PCB (like the eco-wiz).

If the OP can figure out how to do the projector/mirror thing, the enameled wire would be no different than wire on the Sony CRT monitors.

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--- Quote from: Alpha17X on January 09, 2010, 02:36:45 am ---
--- Quote from: mccoy178 on January 09, 2010, 01:54:39 am ---Now if you could only hide all that wiring and stuff.........................

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Well it's a cabinet.  I imagine there are lots of places in it for wiring to be placed.

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I was talking more in terms of the joystick mounts, trackball housing, etc.  You could take the wiring directly down past the reflective mirrors or whatever, but you're going to have a big dark area around those components.

drventure:
Could be a cool idea, but wow, it'd take some work to pull it off

About the wiring. I think you could possibly integrate the wiring into the image design.

For instance, Fred Eerdeken does this "shadow art" that is essentially the same idea.



So you bend the wiring to create shadows on the CP from the projected image, and the shadows could become part of the image somehow.

Like I said, it'd take a LOT to pull it off.  :)

Alpha17X:
Oh yeah. wiring produces shadows.  I'm sure I could figure it out.  or guide it in a pattern and make that part of the 'look'  as suggested.   One way or another, I'm determined to make this work,  be it projection, or some  crazy custom shaped LCD/OLED/LED screen.


*Corrected dyslexia*

Alpha17X:
Figured out how it can be done. 

Rear projection diffusion against a custom shaped screen.  Some 'screen space' is going to be lost due to the wiring, but I think I have that figured out too.  I'll see if I can do a mock-up later to show how I'm going to do it.   

Another way would have multiple custom sized LCD or OLED (borderless) screens working in tandem, but this method is likely to cost less.

After this experiment I think I might see if I can get something going with a sort of matrix of LED's in an RGB sequence.  but that's a ways down the road.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: mccoy178 on January 09, 2010, 11:09:33 am ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on January 09, 2010, 02:08:00 am ---
--- Quote from: mccoy178 on January 09, 2010, 01:54:39 am ---Now if you could only hide all that wiring and stuff.........................

--- End quote ---

It's low voltage signal wire, right? It's also got an excessively low switch rate.

In that case, run some enameled wire. No way it's going to be a crimp job. It's gotta be soldered and you might have to double or triple wire each lead for redundancy. It is, after all, not stranded wire but solid and comes with all the problems solid wire entails.

So solder one (or two or three) strands of enameled to a tab. Find some place to do a small loop (such as around the immobile plastic post on a button) as a strain relief, maybe a small dollop of hot glue. Run the the strand tight-ish to the nearest edge, another strain loop then run around the edge until you reach the controller. Might have to do some soldering to pigtails or directly to the PCB (like the eco-wiz).

If the OP can figure out how to do the projector/mirror thing, the enameled wire would be no different than wire on the Sony CRT monitors.

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--- Quote from: Alpha17X on January 09, 2010, 02:36:45 am ---
--- Quote from: mccoy178 on January 09, 2010, 01:54:39 am ---Now if you could only hide all that wiring and stuff.........................

--- End quote ---

Well it's a cabinet.  I imagine there are lots of places in it for wiring to be placed.

--- End quote ---

I was talking more in terms of the joystick mounts, trackball housing, etc.  You could take the wiring directly down past the reflective mirrors or whatever, but you're going to have a big dark area around those components.

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Yeah, saw (or didn't) see that. But really, it's, not that big of a deal if we're discussing projection methods. Simply create a nice detail right where the dark portion is. Add a subtle rim border and detail the dark portion however you like. A number of CP designs sport this already, such as this and this Simpsons one.

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