And now for something completly different….Bartop MAME
Okay, so on Sunday I decided that I wanted a bartop arcade machine. I’m spur of the moment like that, so I went to Home Depot and bought some wood, and Wal-Mart to buy some corner brackets that evening. Later that night I had the sides, top, and bottom made, and a basic shape formed. Here it is on Wednesday and I’ve got a working unit that I just came in from playing. Simply put….IT IS AWESOME!!!! I used a LCD monitor that I had laying around, and luckily it had the screw holes in the back for a VESA mount, so I just used some angle aluminum and made some brackets for it (I love that stuff), to mount the computer I used 2 pieces of flat aluminum stock for mounts that I tapped and threaded some motherboard spacers into. For a monitor bezel I used a piece of plexli that I cut the protective covering on it to the viewable area of the monitor, and then painted the rest black to give a nice border. (all this is on the back side so it can’t get scratched. The computer is a spare P4 with 512 MB DDR that I had laying around. The keyboard interface, buttons, and joystick I had from previous arcade machine work/building. The hinge I used on the control panel was off an old slot machine that I parted out (I had several), but it was too wide and got in the way of 2 of the L brackets, so I had to cut it some. Anyway, I’m not done yet, close, but not yet. I will post again when I can!
