Fin
Saturday, 5th March 2005 at 5:47PM (1358 days ago)
All I can say is oh my god, it's done! I can't believe it. It's been over 12 months in the making and about 4 different ideas, but finally it's all complete!
The speakers; a pair of Sony Xplod 6" car speakers. They sound fantastic connected to my logitech sound system.
The joysticks, Happ Compeition joysticks, very very nice and really smooth action. Not as smooth as my old japanese joysticks, but still fantastic. I haven't put the buttons in the cabinet yet, that's the last thing on my list today.
The whole thing comes together really easily for transport. You slip the slides into the frame, slide the speaker/marquee area into the grooves at the top, stick the screen bezel on, then put the control panel down. All that's required is a screwdriver and quite a few screws.
So there we have it, the finished beast. After a long time of planning and construction and experimentation it's all there. If you'll excuse me i'm off to drink until i'm silly and play the old classics from when I was a kid.