Weekend Projects??

Tigz79

Tigz79

Tigz79

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Hey folks, just thought ad share my weekend achievments with you all, been bored lately, money tight, jobs doin ma head in and thought a need to keep amused some how and started coming up with random ideas for a project in ma spare time, always wanted one of those arcade machines i used to pump endless money into as a kid and thought al make my own, couldnt decide what i was gunna do or where to begin but did some googling and came across loads of sites where people have come up with some good ideas for arcade cabinets, some just buy a used run down cab and convert it but im building mine from scratch, im handy with wood so thought what the hell im doin it lol, so bought material at local B&Q friday and heres how its coming along, got a pc and all the main components so it was just fittings and mdf i needed to get started, decided to make the unit in 2 halves for space saving and ease of construction and its coming together really well heres some pics of the bottom and top halfs that av managed to get done over the wkend, im of work on holiday for a wk now so it should come together pretty fast as long as nothing major comes up in the build process :confused:

Base Unit
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Top/Bottom Unit
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Frame & Monitor
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The slots you see around the edges are for the plastic mouldings you can use to give the edges that finished look like an authentic games machine, probably goin for the black plastic as im intending to have the unit painted in a high gloss finish, just been using basic tools part from the slots as i had to get a router with a saw blade to cut the grooves, bit tricky but turned out quite well a think :) al keep the pics updated through the wk so you can see my progress, anybody else had any moments of inspiration over there wkd they want to share lol
 
Not that I'm a fan of arcade machines but, looks awesome :D

I'm guessing you're going to use a PC, what are you going to use as a Pad/stick interface?


I haven't really made anything, been slowly buying bits to start some scale modelling soon though.
 
That's great. Being able to build stuff is a dying skill. Lots of people (me included) wouldn't know where to start.
 
Nice craftmanship skills there :) Should be nice when it is done.

I wired up some ceiling speakers to my new nuvo essentia e6g this weekend. The two boxes top left of the pic are this from this weekend :)

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Rest of the room looks like this :o

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Richie.
 
Skyfall said:
Not that I'm a fan of arcade machines but, looks awesome :D

I'm guessing you're going to use a PC, what are you going to use as a Pad/stick interface?


I haven't really made anything, been slowly buying bits to start some scale modelling soon though.
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Yeah thats right im goin to be using my current set up as it allows me to run retro and current games quite easily :) al be using the MAME emulation software as its really good at reproducing the old classics that i remember from the arcades, pacman, space invaders plus current and not so old games like MK and street fighter which used to take up my life when i was 15/16yrs old
 
ramdor said:
Nice craftmanship skills there :) Should be nice when it is done.

I wired up some ceiling speakers to my new nuvo essentia e6g this weekend. The two boxes top left of the pic are this from this weekend :)


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Richie.
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HA rather you than me m8, wouldnt know where to start with all that wiring around, al just stick to wood working, prob end up in casualty with electric burns lol, good work tho :)
 
Last year I hot-rodded an old turntable and made a shelf for it:

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I made all you see there except the platter and the tonearm/electronics. I have no projects on the go atm though.

Homemade Arcade/MAME machines kick arse.
 
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Angus02 said:
Looking good :)

Always wanted to give this a bash at some point.

Did you get the plans from a website or did you do it yourself ?
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Just used my imagination m8, looked around on the net for ideas but since its a muti purpose machine for my needs its going to be built around my set-up so customs the way to go :D looked at the X-arcade joystick looks good mite look into this for the control panel at some point, going to get started on the concealed keyboard shelf tomoz and see how it pans out, got ma wk planned out so should be interesting lol
 
Just used my imagination m8, looked around on the net for ideas but since its a muti purpose machine for my needs its going to be built around my set-up so customs the way to go
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If you have the time a quick guide with some rough sizes would be appreciated.

Or start selling them as a side line......:p

I like the fact it's in 2 bits and looks relatively light compared to some of
them monster cabinets you see.

Keep the updates coming.
 
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Yeah the unit is pretty light to be honest, its mostly 18mm mdf so not to bad, once the pc and everything else that goes with it goes in it should still be lighter than the pre built models you can buy for crazy money on the net, al measure up the unit when its complete for people who fancy having a go themselves ;) not in it for money just a project am interested in really and its fun putting the ideas into practice. al keep the thread updated when new things start coming together tho :) thanks for the good comments, makes the project more rewarding knowing its inspiring others!
 
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