The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: MikuMark on July 15, 2019, 06:02:23 am
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Hi all. New here and looking at ideas for my 2nd build I will be doing very soon. Just wanted to share photos of my 1st bartop build I designed and built.
1st off was to design the bartop. I designed it all up in CAD with all the gear I was using in it and then exported the panels out to the CNC software and cut them.
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Next step was to put it together. Glue and brad nails and clamps.
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Edges and cuts all sealed with glue and sanded, 3 coats of primer sprayed.
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All the gear was brought before starting the build so I could get everything in CAD form for the design.
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Designed and 3d printed speaker grills.
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Made custom wires for the LED's in buttons
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Made custom wires for the buttons and sticks.
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Putting everything together.
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Still need to get photos on it finished and running off my camera. Is a couple of things I would do different in my next arcade build. 1 is the bolts to hold the sticks in place so you dont have the 4 bolts on the top where your hands are.
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CAD File
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https://i.imgur.com/142bxdk.mp4
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I also Designed and built a stand for the bartop.
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The 2nd stand I made for another person and adjusted some stuff on it for them.
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nice cab and stand. I like the monitor mount. :cheers:
Your next cab should be a full upright.
Whatever you decide, the next cab should definitely have t molding on it.
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Wow. Wish I had a cnc machine..nice build
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That wouldn't be too difficult to do with conventional tools. Designing it would be the hard part for me.
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Very clean looking build, nice work. What you use for control board. I'm having trouble telling from the pics but looks like a minipac maybe?
Enjoy it!
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Very impressive design, and execution. It look like you got a nice paint finish as well. Not exactly my art style, but hey that's the fun in making it yours. I second Mike that you should build a full size cab next, and damn you really have me wanting to get a CNC. ;D
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Thanks all. Yeah cnc comes in very handy. :) Got a Stepmores SM-6090 cnc.
Controller board is a Xin-Mo XM-02 Dual players game controller.
Happy to share files. Just need to finish uploading them.
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Very impressive design, and execution. It look like you got a nice paint finish as well. Not exactly my art style, but hey that's the fun in making it yours. I second Mike that you should build a full size cab next, and damn you really have me wanting to get a CNC. ;D
Do it buy a CNC. :laugh:
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3d Printed speaker grill. STL files.
https://mega.nz/#F!fnhnAKpD!lgNNJyiSJP5lUOXp3aUphw
Bartop Stand. STEP file.
https://mega.nz/#F!6ygXgCab!uZaJZz3HaC7PHweO8MWSjQ
Bartop Arcade. STEP file.
https://mega.nz/#F!GmpjhKSJ!ZPHy2ZXCVabjsgRMsYEPOg
Also included in the files is DXF files and images.
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nice cab and stand. I like the monitor mount. :cheers:
Your next cab should be a full upright.
Whatever you decide, the next cab should definitely have t molding on it.
Yeah I have a 24" monitor and a 17" monitor I can use on builds. 24" I really wanting to do a build like Richie_jones build. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,151537.0.html
And yes T-Molding would be interesting. I do have a slot cutter bit just need to check if its the right size.
17" I been thinking about using in a mini version of a full size cabinet like a kids version.
Got plans from online and have drawn it up in CAD and made some adjustments: https://mega.nz/#!WvpzlQwQ!rx2R7-e_tCks2lnt3IYOy6VItzF8QAypax1MhuE5uPs
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Kids like to do big people things. In my arcade room they enjoy running around with their stools to play the big person games.
I never understood why people would want to build a kid sized arcade cab. It only works for their target audience for a brief period of time.
A full sized cab works for everyone all of the time.
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Took a couple of days off and missed this, although I don't know what I missed as it's all vanished :banghead:
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A new speed record for broken photo links -- less than 117 hours. ::)
Yet another example of why we ask people to upload at least their key build-related photos here. :(
Scott