Child-sized cocktail cabinets
posted May 30th 2010 12:30pm by Mike Szczysfiled under: home entertainment hacks, netbook hacks
[Sam Seide] dropped us a line about his new arcade creation. We loved his Punch-Out build that used a punch dummy as a game controller. This time around he’s made some mini-cocktail style MAME cabinets. He removed the screen from a netbook and placed it face-up underneath the acrylic bezel. There are controls on either side for two players as we would expect from any quality cocktail cabinet. The control panels are interfaced through the now familiar iPac boards and are a bit unfinished on the underside but that doesn’t decrease our need to see one of these on the coffee table at home. Check out demo and an outline of the parts inside after the break.
Demonstration
Guts walk-through
I’ve always thought the cocktail cabinets were already child sized, I hated them. These are more like back seat of the car sized. Slap some batteries in them, market them portable.
Problem is that not many of the kids today are going to like the 80′s games with the Xboxs and PS3s. Even the portables now are much more complicated game wise. It is a very clean looking build though.