Apr 13
Coming soon…
Apr 05
I decided I needed to start some new projects again. It’s not like I have the time. It’s not as if I’ve finished my other projects. But I have ADD or something so that’s how I roll.
I am transplanting a PC into a Mac G3 case. I’m not the first to do it but I had all the parts laying around so I figured, why not? I have a broken G3 and a P4 PC that I haven’t turned on in 2 years. Last night I gutted the G3 and moved over the PC power supply. The G3 uses a standard ATX power supply (just not enough watts for a P4) so that was pretty easy. Unfortunately I then realized the motherboard I have for the P4 is too big. I was hoping to not have to invest any money in this but I will need to buy a new mobo. I don’t think I have one laying around. Maybe one of my buddies does. I’ll be sure to include lots of fancy blue LEDs in the case too.
Also on the list is modifying a Plug ‘n Play Super Pac-man game. It’s one of those all in one joysticks that you plug directly into your TV and get to play Pac-man (best game ever) on. I want to try to use a real arcade joystick. I’ll have to crack it open to see how possible it is. It was on sale though so I picked one up. Worst case scenario is that I can play Pac-man. It also requires 4 AA batteries and it would be nice to replace that with a rechargeable system all internally. I’ve also pondered integrating a small screen but that would make it pretty bulky and defeat the purpose…unless I got really clever with the integration.
Not sure what else at this point. I NEED to finish my MAME cabinet. I have some ideas for trimming it down to a size that would actually fit in my place while keeping it fairly faithful to the original. Since it’s modifying a real, 80s arcade cabinet it should look nice.
I have a very ambitious cocktail arcade idea in mind. I’ve been mulling that over for a couple years actually, I just don’t have the carpentry skills required to build what I want. But damn is it cool in my head!
Um, that’s about it for projects I have in mind. For some reason I thought I had more. Oh well, these will take me a lot of time to finish anyway.
Apr 05
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