, blog about the I'm building an arcade cabinet! I'm not sure what tipped me over the edge on this one- it was a steady progression I think. One minute I'm playing a few old games in MAME, the next I'm reading blogs and websites detailing people's hand-build arcade cabinets. Before I knew what was happening I was making plans and pricing up my own DIY cabinet :)
Over the past few weeks I've bought a 2nd hand PC and 21" CRT monitor, as well as a cheap 2nd hand cabinet from an ex-govt. furniture shop. I've been visiting a lot of sites on the Internet (some good ones here, here, here, and here) and bought some plans from a helpful guy named Bob. I used the plans as a guide and designed my own template, taking in to account my monitor dimensions etc. After making a strong base to support the heavy monitor, I picked up a jigsaw (for the first time in my life!) and attacked the particle board. After a bit of hand sanding I bolted the panels to the cabinet. Here are the results of my efforts...
Progress to-date
Monitor mount/support
Side panel
Cardboard template
Lots still left to do, but I'm happy with my progress so far. While I can't wait to have it finished, I'm thoroughly enjoying the process of building my first arcade cabinet!
3 comments:
Nice work! I do like the look of that, and for your first time using a jigsaw, that's a pretty darn good effort. I'll be very interested to see your progress - you seem to have come a long way already!
Hey Ferris,
Good post, and great work on the cabinet so far...
It sounds like you already have enough info, but going with the premise that you can never have too much, I thought I'd point out the mame console howto that Atomic Magazine did a few editions ago... Not sure if I still have my copy (I'll have a look), but Indra/Corbs/Mad_Harry might still have theirs.
Keep the updates (and photos) coming!!
Thanks for the comments guys!
Wombleton- I'd be interested to take a look at that edition of Atomic, although I have found that there are web pages/blogs covering just about every aspect of arcade cabinet construction!
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