My arcade cabinet - Q*bert inspired

Building a custom arcade cabinet.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Coin door and front end

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I installed the one final piece that the cabinet was missing: the coin door. Now I can charge people for playing! But they can just take the...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Game on

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I got the smart power strip and hooked everything up to a single button on the back panel. Now it's game time (hmm, maybe I should'v...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Cabinet about done

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The pictures below are the completed cabinet shell except for the acrylic sheet in front of the monitor and the coin door (which has been or...

LCD mount

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The end is near. Doesn't mean I'm getting closer to it though. But I see it. The LCD monitor is ready to be mounted. I made a custom...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Keyboard hack/admin buttons

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Now I want to have separate buttons for quitting and pausing games. This would've been possible with combo button presses, but the basic...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Marquee test

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I wanted to see what the marquee and control panel looked like when they were attached. Nobody stopped me from doing it, so I took a picture...

Assembly - begin!

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After about three weekends of work, I finally had something that looked like an arcade cabinet. Here we have the sides, base, middle, and to...
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