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I made my own arcade cabinet :)

vnvx - Jun 21, 2007

		vnvx	Jun 21, 2007
		My first attempt ever. It's made out of styrofoam project board and hot glue, and the horribly crappy buttons actually work! They're made from an old keyboard I have. It runs off of MAME on my iBook, but it's fun to play and it looks neat for the 4-5 hours it took. I'm going to print off full-size arcade decals to go on it.

		Xavier	Jun 24, 2007
		Thats pretty cool what are the joysticks and the screen made out of?

		vnvx	Jul 7, 2007
		It's all just that foam-cardboard project board you get at office stores. The screen is just an LCD monitor hooked up to my computer. I put in an old keyboard inside and glued the buttons made out of blank plastic bottle caps on top. I cut holes for them and it actually plays pretty well. I'll probably make a serious one out of wood in a few months.

		Pyrite	Jul 7, 2007
		It's a good design all you need to do now is a real one

		mtxblau	Jul 11, 2007
		How rigid is that? With a little decorative painting, I imagine no one could tell the difference. Kudos!

		vnvx	Jul 11, 2007
		Thanks! It's actually pretty flimsy, but I just need to do another round of gluing the joints together. And it'll be sweet once I get the decals on there.

		mtxblau	Jul 11, 2007
		Just to keep sizes relative, how big is that LCD?

		vnvx	Jul 24, 2007
		It's like a 15"-17" 1024x768. The entire thing is pretty tiny, it's sitting on my desk.