{"id":6,"date":"2012-01-03T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T15:28:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:28:34","slug":"ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/mame\/2012\/01\/ideas.html","title":{"rendered":"Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Initially, I was going to build a cocktail cabinet, which may still happen at some point.<\/p>\n

I originally designed it freehand on a piece of paper, then converted it into a Google Sketchup<\/a> drawing:<\/p>\n

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I have been a regular lurker over at the Build Your Own Arcade Forums<\/a>, and decided I would like to build something along the lines of Knievil’s Woody<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I may, or may not have a rotating or modular control panel, but would very much like to have a rotating monitor, and want to try and achieve this by using a car electric window winder mechanism, which is a method that I do not believe has been attempted before (the window winder not the rotating monitor concept).<\/p>\n

I have collected most of the controls I intend to use, joysticks, buttons, 3″ trackball, a couple of recoil light guns, etc.<\/p>\n

I intend to make use of a PIC controller as a Human Interface Device (HID) as the controller for the inputs, but have many old PCs in pieces that I can scavenge for parts for the rest of the build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Initially, I was going to build a cocktail cabinet, which may still happen at some point. I originally designed it freehand on a piece of paper, then converted it into a Google Sketchup drawing: I have been a regular lurker over at the Build Your Own Arcade Forums, and decided I would like to build…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/mame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/mame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/mame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/mame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/mame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/mame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/mame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/mame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/mame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/mame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/mame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}