The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: severdhed on April 29, 2016, 09:56:26 pm
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Not really an arcade project, but more of a gameroom decoration project. A few weeks ago, i finally learned how to solve a rubik's cube, which made my inner 8-year-old very happy. Since then, i've been fascinated with them. My kids started asking me to teach them, so i figured i'd look for a few more cubes. I found some at my local Dollar Tree store for $1. they are a little larger and poorly made. they have shiny metallic looking stickers on them and are incredibly stiff and difficult to turn....not a good learning tool for my kids, so i tossed them in a box and forgot about them. I eventually picked up another good cube at a goodwill for the kids to use. Anyway, i stumbled across a picture during a google search where someone used rubiks cubes to make pixel art. This appealed to me greatly. The biggest problem is cost. It takes a ton of these things to make anything substantial and at $5 to $10 a peice, that is more than i spend on something so trivial. So, i revisited the dollar store cubes. It took me a few weeks and stops at 6 different dollar trees to eventually find enough of them. (they dont seem to ever restock them)
I determined that a 6 x 6 cube grid of them should be enough to make a decent selection of pixel art creations (18 pixels x 18 pixels)
Tonight, i finally got around to doing it. I started off with a 6ft 1x3 pine board. The cubes are 2.5" so i built a wooden frame that was 15 and 1/8" on the inside to give myself just a little wiggle room. I screwed it together and fastened a picture hanging bracket on the back.
next i found a nice pixel art picture of mario that someone else made out of cubes to use as a template.
then i unwrapped the 36 cubes and started changing them around to fit my pattern. i should have created a better template on my PC, separating the individual cubes to make it easier to look at.....that will be for the next time.
anyway, i turned all of the cubes into the right configuration and placed them in the frame. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out....and when i get sick of it, i can just take them out and convert it to something else. I will eventually paint/stain the frame, but i was excited to see what it would look like, so i didn't want to wait for that tonight.
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there is no pictorial evidence.
edit: wait is there pictures? I see a big blank space where it looks like 2 pictures should be. Maybe my phone just isn't loading them. in that case I retract my statement.
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sorry, the pictures showed up for me in my browser...both on my pc and on my phone. As it turns out, i had them in my google photo storage, and didn't share them. i was signed into my google account on my devices, so they showed up for me, but when i went to a different browser they did not. it should all be fixed now.
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Nice balls.
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Nice balls.
Thanks.
That is the first place award for our annual Golden Balls Ladder Golf tournament that we've hosted for the last 8 years. I've got 4 sets of them hanging up, in that room, much to the disgust of my wife :)
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That's really cool. Creative and awesome. Great job :applaud:
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looks really good.
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Outstanding. Looks great!
DeL
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Thanks for the compliments. I decided to switch it up this afternoon....
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