{"id":25,"date":"2011-01-20T21:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.100\/wordpress\/?p=25"},"modified":"2016-11-27T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T09:54:00","slug":"home-cocktail-arcade-cabinet-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/20\/home-cocktail-arcade-cabinet-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Cocktail Arcade Cabinet – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now for the fun part, putting it all together.\u00a0 All the hard work has been done.\u00a0 Measuring, measuring again, cutting, welding, screwing, bolting, trial fitting, painting and many beers. Oh, and of course cursing.\u00a0 It’s taken about a year and a half to get to this point (I get distracted with other projects), but now (hopefully) everything just fits together.<\/p>\n

\"Mounting
Mounting points, speakers, fan & hinges. Er….and feet!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Looking
Looking sweet!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A
A bit of colour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Easier
Easier to wire everything up before I mount them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now that the joysticks and buttons are wired up, its time to fit them to the cabinet and get the computer installed.\u00a0 The keyboard encoder is an Ultimarc I-PAC2 which I bought with the joysticks and buttons.\u00a0 Most of my bosses computer was used, even the case was hacked to hold the motherboard in the cabinet.<\/p>\n

\"Joystick
Joystick pads mounted and the power supply installed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The keyboard controller for all the buttons and joysticks. And pesky feet again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Some
Some would say the heart of the cabinet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"An
An inside view of the motherboard and disk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"100_0121\"
Power and other connectors and buttons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now the computer is installed, we need some sound.\u00a0 I looked around for an stereo amp that would run on 12VDC.\u00a0 I thought about hacking a pair of computer speakers, but needed something with some oomph.\u00a0 I found a kit<\/a> that did the job on the Altronics website<\/a>. I suppose I could have bought one of those black blobs with wires out the bottom that might have worked, but I’m an electronics engineer at heart, so why would I pass up building a kit?<\/p>\n

\"Volume
Volume & tones controls to boot!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"100_0128\"
All together. Wait. What are we missing?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The monitor had the cover and front bezel removed, and some mounting straps added, but apart from that, it just slips in and connects to the computer as usual.\u00a0 As you can see I mounted the monitor for predominantly vertical games, but it is big enough to play the likes of Moon Patrol just fine.<\/p>\n

\"Walah!
Walah! Ready for software load & testing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"100_0136\"
A top down look.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ready for the software load and testing, but first we need to pick the operating system & software frontends for MAME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now for the fun part, putting it all together.\u00a0 All the hard work has been done.\u00a0 Measuring, measuring again, cutting, welding, screwing, bolting, trial fitting, painting and many beers. Oh, and of course cursing.\u00a0 It’s taken about a year and a half to get to this point (I get distracted with other projects), but now … Continue reading “Home Cocktail Arcade Cabinet – Part 2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3,5,4,7,8],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arcade-cabinet","tag-arcade","tag-cabinet","tag-cocktail","tag-hardware","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simmohacks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}