Project Arcade 8 of 0.o

Its been a very busy week helping test software at work and helping get a new server up and running along with every thing else.

Spent some time finishing up the area for the trackball and its mounting plate.

Now that i got the plate fitted time to start on the holes but 1st need to find the correct bit.

More later on.  Sorry im so slow at this.

Project Arcade 7 of ummmm

We started the cutting and about time to i say but oh well like i said before thing came up.

My father and I started to cut out the main shape of the controller panel, i know some people measure it all out by hand but for me i rather do it all in cad and plot it out so i can just cut on the dotted lines lol.

here is some pix (wife took them for me)

 

  

Now that we got the shape done and every thing is looking good we started to work on the trach ball hole.

Now thats out of the way it was time to start the buttons.   :D

Project Arcade 6 of errrrrrrrr

Construction time :D

On Saturday my father and I went by Lows to pick up the wood the controller panel for the arcade cabinet, I decided to get 3/4th thick Particle board instead of MDF due to the weight and the MDF splits and tears to easy so particle board for the win even though it cost more it will be worth it in the end because i can go back and stain it with a nice finish instead of having to paint it all black.

sadly when i had them do the cuts for me i ask them to me a 1'6" section and decided to go ahead and cut a 1'7" section to just in case some thing happened and well I'm glad i did,  the 1st cut they did for me the goof ball did a 1'5"5/8th cut so he ruined that part for me and the 1'7" section isn't square but i was still able to use it so if you can its best to cut it your self.    i so need a table saw.

after trimming my plans we spraid the back of the plans with a spray glue and let it sit for 10 min before putting it on the wood so it will be more like a peal and stick sticker and will be easy to remove, a nice little trick i say.

Project Arcade 5 of ?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

finally back, too much going on in December.

well i made some more head way on the arcade got the control panel plans finalized and plotted so i can start cutting (like i said delays) and the main body is about 80% complete but once i get the panel built it can speed up on the body planning so i know that all my measurements will work plus MDF cost about $30 for a 8x4 sheet and i need 4 so far its adding up fast.

Got my RGB buttons wired up and configured and wow its going to look awesome when i have all the players done but like i have said before I'm just doing player 1 for a test.

still need to do some tweaking but so far it every thing is ready,  I'm having to match all the buttons and colors to the game by hand but instead of doing all of them ill figure out what games get played the most and add them to the list and do all my backups of my configs so if some thing happens i can restore data.

but more later on its bed time and a busy work day.