Well, I'd like som feedback on my design as well. As the guts of it is quite easy and straight forward I'm going for the design aspect of it now and I wonder what you guys thinks about something like this. It's an old ammo crate I "borrowed" from the army a few years ago. I think I'll be a bit of a nerd and call this one Combat-san and smack on a picture of Combat-san from ichigeki sacchu!! Hoihoi-san. Thinking about 2 DB25s on the front, a led for showing if it's on or not (as one can't tell ) as well as three buttons for coin, service switch and test switch. On the back a scart socket, two phono plugs, two contacts for hooking speakers up directly to it and some switches to switch between stereo and mono. Also I have two jamma connectors there, one for standard jamma and one for extra features such as kick harness, external sound etc. I might exchange that second one for another DB25 or similar. Below is some fast mock up pictures I made, they kinda look ugly but the main concept is there. Any tips on what I could make better?
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Thats better, cheers. Love the box, Very nice idea. Once I get around to making mine, It's going to be in Lego, Since I suck at woodwork-y kinda things, But I lego is always good!
Here's a few pics of my current setup for comparison... The main unit. The grey box is the PC PSU I used (a 130W one from a compact Elonex PC I no longer needed). The black box (taped and glued onto the PSU, with the back cut away to allow wires through, and airflow) is just a standard project box; the red button adds a credit and the white button is the service switch. You can see the S-Video connection plugged in (from my homebuilt AD724 encoder) - below that is the composite output. Lower-left (can't really see it...) is the SCART socket for RGB output. There's also some holes drilled on the right-hand side for airflow and to allow sound out of the internal speaker. To the far left you can see the connector for the controllers; I used a 37-way D connector wired to all the edge-connector pins and then built an adaptor to attach my controllers, which each use 15-pin high-density connectors. As my controllers have six buttons each, this allows me to build small adaptors to connect any auxiliary buttons, via a small pin header on the adaptor. Far right is the loom exiting the box, and some plastic zombies An angled view showing things slightly better. The black blob on top is the volume control for my speakers, so the whole unit is extremely compact. Shot of the loom heading off to an adaptor, then to my Pacman board Off to the other side, here's one of my controllers. This one's player 1; player 2 has a 2P start button and blue stick/buttons The stick is a Competition from Happ (via Bob Roberts) and the buttons are horizontal-microswitch concave-topped buttons also from Happ. The stick is mounted with some coach bolts, and the whole thing was housed in a project box from Maplin - this was the largest plastic one they sold at the time, though things might have changed since then! Building these was probably the most difficult part of the whole project, and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. If you do something similar, make sure you stick some weight in the base of the sticks; while mine feel a bit light most people prefer a bit more heft Hopefully this'll give you some ideas Stone
