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Alpha17X:

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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.

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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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Yeah exactly. i'm just guiding the wiring through a 'pattern'

It will go along the black areas in this pattern.  I'll have to make some custom cpanel images.  I think my biggest challenge will actually be heat management issues (projector lamps are hot after all)  and experimenting to get a clear projection and minimal to no wash-out.

I also found a few companies that make custom shaped screens, even some with holes in them (the control module just considers those areas to be dead pixels)  but those were very very pricy.


This is fun.

drventure:
Ok, this has really got my curiosity up. Will be following this thread!


--- Quote ---I also found a few companies that make custom shaped screens, even some with holes in them (the control module just considers those areas to be dead pixels)  but those were very very pricy.
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Never heard of that, but holy hell, i can only imagine how much they charge for those panels!

bgspot:
Cool idea but i thought the point of retro gaming was game play...

Alpha17X:
Yeah, smallest quote I heard of from old colleagues who helped set up E3 Booths said the lowest they ever heard of a custom shaped LCD screen go for was 7 thousand.


I'm looking into the MPro150, trying to find out how long it can run continously.

http://www.3m.com/mpro/

Alpha17X:

--- Quote from: bgspot on January 10, 2010, 12:19:06 am ---Cool idea but i thought the point of retro gaming was game play...

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I've already made a crap-ton of games for my cabinet, I want to do something different.

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