The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: versapak on October 12, 2005, 12:34:20 pm
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It has been one of those days...
Took my control panel off, so I could mount a hinged door underneath where it sits, and here comes my 2 year old daughter...
Pours her drink all over it. Now there is apple juice underneath the plexi, which of course is held on by 44 buttons and 16 joystic screws.
What a great start. Yes, it was just the start.
For a follow up... I had the plexi removed from the front of the cab, because I was replacing my warped posterboard bezel with a more durable foamboard one.
Well... Here again comes my 2 year old. :angel:
Pushes the plexi over onto some rough wood scrap and jumps on it.
I am thinking that work on the cab should be haulted for the day, as I seriously don't want to see what is gonna happen next if I continue.
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Solution:
(http://www.petmate.com/Images/Products/21084.jpg)
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My wife wants a little girl and I won't let her dress my sons in girl clothes.
Give me a baseline price or trade want.
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But Seph already volunteered to dress like a little girl and call you daddy.
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I can't let my wife find out about that, though.
And Seph only calls me daddy because I keep owning his mom.
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baby gates and play pens are your friend
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baby gates and play pens are your friend
I have a 2 year old daughter who could easily climb out of any baby fence or playpen.
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My kids were able, but it wasn't hard to teach them not to do it.
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i was waiting for chad to bust in with his superior parenting techniques =p
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My kids always obey every word I say and are the most well behaved children in the world, but that is only because they do not exist.
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It wasn't me this time.
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GREAT PLAN!
Booby-trap the gates so they fall on contact. That will scare those crumb-crunchers.
When my daughter was 2 she "helped me in the Shop all the time. I had some rules:
1. No food/drink
2. Jumpiing on plexiglass parts from my precious cabinet resulted in a spanking.
Simple.
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My kids have always helped me out too. I have them sit on the stairs, well out of reach but in clear view of everything. When I have something they can help with, I tell them to come over and they help. Then they go back to the stairs with the bird's eye view (and nothing in reach).
If they don't want to sit on the stairs, they are free to go play elsewhere, but not in the work area.
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I'd agree, The best way for my kids not to screw with something I'm working on is to have them help me with easier parts of the process.
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Score one for the anti-plexi-on-control-panel camp!
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Build a plexi playpen.
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Dunno how many of you have kids, but 2 years old is passed the point of gate or playpen containment.
There is no gate or playpen that could contain this little one.
I am actually not quite certain I am the father. The girl clearly has Houdini's genes.
Enclosure in a steel reinforced concrete box would be as difficult to escape as the process of simply standing up for her.
:)
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Maybe you should just refrain from project work when you are the primary person watching her. I stopped doing a lot of things while I was the only one tending to my kids at that age.
It isn't fun, but it's better than her pressing the on button on the circular saw.
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Beat the child
if they jump the fence, you beat them
If they jump the play pen, you beat them
If they cry, you beat them
If they don't cry, you beat them
If they obey completely, you only beat them a little.
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Maybe you should just refrain from project work when you are the primary person watching her. I stopped doing a lot of things while I was the only one tending to my kids at that age.
It isn't fun, but it's better than her pressing the on button on the circular saw.
I do think your a little confused. (Thread as a whole, not specifically you CT)
For starters...
No parenting advice really needed. I do all right. :P
Second...
I was not "the primary person" watching her this morning. (It was business as usual with the whole family home at the time)
Third...
There wasn't really any big project work going on. I was placing a bezel behind the plexi, which would have taken about 5-10 minutes, and was screwing on a replacement hinged panel (3.5" x 24.5") in place of another, which would have taken another 5-10 minutes.
It was just one of those days, and I found it oddly funny in a painful have a lot more work to do now sort of way
We aren't talking about my 2 year old running around a shop full of tools. I was just doing a little touch up on the machine where it sits for use. The fault is not that my kid wasn't in a pen or gated, but that I was not as meticulous about the cabs welfare as I would have been if it was in a shop environment.
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My kids were able, but it wasn't hard to teach them not to do it.
Read: shock collars
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My kids were able, but it wasn't hard to teach them not to do it.
Read: shock collars
Yeah...
I did that with the first 2, but now they have this sort of random twitching thing. I can't prove that it was the shock collars, but I figured I would go without em on the 3rd try.
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Beat the child
if they jump the fence, you beat them
If they jump the play pen, you beat them
If they cry, you beat them
If they don't cry, you beat them
If they obey completely, you only beat them a little.
Hoagie_one = Repeat Offender.
(oh, and ;D)
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Maybe you should just refrain from project work when you are the primary person watching her.
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It's pretty obvious that strong parenting is no longer necessarily American, either.
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How much for the little girl? How much for the women?
Your women. I want to buy your women. The little girl, your daughters... sell them to me. Sell me your children.
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Medication running out? ;)
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Serves you right - No plexi on control panels!
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Serves you right - No plexi on control panels!
:P
Looks MUCH better with plexi than it does without. My control panel is just painted all black, and it is an UAII design, so we are not talking any "real" arcade authenticity goin on with it in the first place.
Gotta be honest though...
Its protective abilities are clearly less than stellar. I would have been much better not having apple juice sandwiched underneath it.
My reasoning for it being there was soley for a very glossy black surface though.
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But you did give us anti-plexites one more reason to not use plexi. :)
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You guys love redundancy don't you?
You guys love redundancy don't you?
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I'm putting in a vote for Velcro wallpaper in the game room.
It doesn't even have to cover the entire wall.
You could do Velcro wainscotting for a more elegant look, random stripes on the wall for a more contemporary look, etc...
Then all you need is the fuzzy bunny pajamas, and you're set.
You might have to put up with some frustrated screaming, but proper volume on the ambient music in the gameroom should mask that out pretty well.
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Beat the child
if they jump the fence, you beat them
If they jump the play pen, you beat them
If they cry, you beat them
If they don't cry, you beat them
If they obey completely, you only beat them a little.
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I'm putting in a vote for Velcro wallpaper in the game room.
It doesn't even have to cover the entire wall.
You could do Velcro wainscotting for a more elegant look, random stripes on the wall for a more contemporary look, etc...
Then all you need is the fuzzy bunny pajamas, and you're set.
You might have to put up with some frustrated screaming, but proper volume on the ambient music in the gameroom should mask that out pretty well.
Now we're talking. ;D
I bet I could even get away without any screaming. She could prolly be convinced it is a game. I will just put multiple colors of velcro on in a dartboard pattern.
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Build a plexi playpen.
OK, so it's actually 1/2" of lexan...
That pic is last February in Harrisburg, PA (Hence the warm clothes and funny hat) of my 2 year old while we were assembling a combat robot arena for a competition. Once 5 of those get stood up and bolted together, its ready.
Kept the kid in just fine. :)
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I can't let my wife find out about that, though.
And Seph only calls me daddy because I keep owning his mom.
Haha. You pwn3d seph's mom!!!111eleven
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baby gates and play pens are your friend
birth control is a better friend!
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baby gates and play pens are your friend
birth control is a better friend!
I'll drink to that.
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That pic is last February in Harrisburg, PA (Hence the warm clothes and funny hat) of my 2 year old while we were assembling a combat robot arena for a competition.
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Cool! Now show us pics of the the kid VS the robots!
Oooh! I hope there's a video!
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Cool! Now show us pics of the the kid VS the robots!
Y'know, I got a feeling the insurance company might balk at that.
Best I can do.
(http://www.teammadcow.com/motorama2004/josh_netherbot.jpg)
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No offence but there's something creepy about that photo. ???
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That does kind of look like the kid just lost a 4 round fight.
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No offence but there's something creepy about that photo. ???
That was a year ago.
The kids much creepier now.
Taking safety into account, the robot had the batteries removed, the CO2 tank removed, and if you look, you'll see the linkage attaching the pneumatic ram to the flipper arm is not theaded into its clevis.
Oh, and I'm standing about 2' behind him, just out of frame. :)
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When pitting robot against baby, it's only fair to remove the pneumatic ram.
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Depends. After 2 years of diaper changing, he's had some pretty pneumatic moments.
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Also, he has a bib.
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I think it's the striped outfit. Stripes always crrep me out. When I was a kid I was attacked by a zebra. ;)
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Some babies look exactly like small 90 year old men.
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OK, its not cheesecake, but I thought this might interest someone out there. These are 12 pound robots at the competition I attended this weekend.
The first half of the vid is kind of boring. The second half gets more... interesting. The white sparks are what happens when carbon steel meets titanium.
http://www.poundofpain.com/video/Skittlebrau_Vs_Rants_Pants.wmv
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Wake me when they bust out the adamantium.
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I believe thats on the research list - right after the unobtanium.