Called the Arcane Table, a Coffee table with a hidden arcade machine (“MAME compatible” PC running Win7) from Surface Tension (aka IKEA). Sanwa stick and buttons, Ultimarc spinner and Happ trackball. Looks interesting, yet at the same time, I feel that some of the folks in this forums could do better.
Unfortunately that means my eyes and fingers will be in pain fairly soon from the tedious work :(. Oh well, doing an assembly line like last time should make short work of things.
So, cool news is I might have a vewlix on my hands. Retarded news is I am trying to figure out how to put a system in it that I can charge, since I don’t have 13k to drop on the SSF4 HDD.
I know this is boarder-line what ever, but I also know there are plenty of real arcades that do it anyway. So whatever, just trying to build a little South Jersey arcade bit.
Main overview is a circuit that reads two presses of a switch and sends out a signal, but only on two. (50 cent charge), that signal initiates a circuit that allows for the start to be pressed once (for continuing, joining a match) and a timer that is enough for selecting a character and a full match. This timer resets when ever more money is inserted by either side, and that is so one player can stay on with out his time expiring, but also preventing one person from putting money in the machine once and sitting for an hour in training mode.
If anyone has any clue as to what they do at a local arcade, and can give me some insight…besides a lan center “pay for an hour” idea, it would be greatly appreciated.
Why is panelizing gerber files so damned difficult? I can’t do it in eagle because of the size limitations. No GPL programs for manipulating gerber files directly. Found a ‘gerbmerge’ python script to do it, but installing under Cygwin failed, installing via Python for Windows failed, even the first few attempts to install on linux bombed. I had to register for vmware, install ubuntu on the virtual machine, and finally have it working. Man, seems like it should be a ton easier than it currently appears to be. I’ve lost over a day of work just trying to get a batch of slightly different Spark boards panelized onto a single board for fabrication. Sheesh.
