Two students embark on a journey: A journey to CREATE THEIR OWN ARCADE MACHINE. Difficult? Likely. Crazy? Probably. Awesome? Hell yes.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Control panel construction continues
After finally managing to get my hands on a working hole bit for the drill (damn bits didn't match up) progress is once more being made on the control panel. Some of the holes are a little off, and the buttons don't always line up with their nice background bits, but... oh well, it'll do the job. Next up is attaching the joysticks, then... wiring! That'll be interesting...
(PS: This work was done several weeks ago, in mid December, before I left on holiday. Hence the lack of updates.)
The purpose of this website is to log the construction from scratch of an arcade cabinet. This involves sawing wood, screwing it together, mounting a monitor, painting and adding artwork, attaching individual controls (buttons, joysticks, trackballs) for controls, connecting it all to a computer, with configured software, and maybe eventually playing games. Though not necessarily all in that order.
What little experience we have is drawn from our previous project: a "bartop" arcade machine, a smaller single player unit created with raw will rather than skills. We learned a lot (read: made a lot of mistakes) from the project, and hope to apply those lessons this time...
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