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Fans of the Star Wars series will immediately recognize these illuminated vertical bars as a piece of the style from the original movie. They decorate the MAME cabinet recently installed in this home bar. You've got to admit, it looks amazing. But we're always on the prowl for the build log and this annotated 46 image set has no shortage of goodies. The project started off as a very ordinary … [Read more...]
To make the most out of his home theater sound system [Baccula] built this folded horn enclosure for as much bass sound as possible. The design was conceived by [Bill Fitzmaurice] who thought there needed to be a better way to use the subwoofers which are typically used in home systems. His design is called the Tuba HT and it is aimed at a 15" speaker. [Bill] charges for the building plans, but … [Read more...]
[George] is a Neo Geo aficionado, and among his collection of paraphernalia, he has a MVS-Mini game console. His mini “Multi Video System” is a 2-slot model, meaning that it can hold two game cartridges at a time, which are indicated by plastic cards inserted in the cabinet’s face plate. Instead of swapping those cards out each time he changed cartridges, he thought it would be far cooler to … [Read more...]
[Jed] built a MAME cabinet into some flat pack furniture (translated). For the housing he chose an Ikea Ramvik side table. This is a perfect piece of furniture for the project for several reasons; it's cheap, coming in at under $70, it's a reasonable height to use while sitting on the sofa, it has a built-in drawer that will hide the guts of the system, and it was designed to use a piece of glass … [Read more...]
[Bomber Punk] built his own arcade cabinet, but you won't find any MAME games here. He made the enclosure to house a Meggy Jr. 8x8 pixel graphics game console. Proper coin-op buttons and a joystick replace the stock tactile switches that come with the kit. [Bomber Punk] has also added a lighted coin slot. A three-cell battery pack powers the beast, with a programming port to one side so that … [Read more...]
You won't find those familiar steel balls inside this mini-pinball cabinet. That's because [Luis'] latest creation is a fun way to play virtual pinball. The playing field is a 10" LCD screen with an accompanying 8" screen in the marquee. Inside the well-crafted case you'll find a mini-ITX motherboard running HyperPin, a frontend software suite for LCD-based virtual pinball. He's also using PinMame … [Read more...]
[Tim's] miniMAME's construction follows the "light and cheap" approach, using foam core board and hot glue. Sure it won't last a nuclear attack, but at least it's light enough to carry to a friend's house. With a removable netbook at the core, CCFLs, speakers, trackball, and mini arcade fighting stick, the project completely surpassed our expectations. For those looking to build a miniMAME, … [Read more...]
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