#TYRIAN 2000 CONTROLLER PORTABLE#

How about a progress screenshot in SolidWorks this early Monday morning? 2 heavy-duty black drawer pulls (for carrying handles).

1 black barrel-style door bolt set (for locking the top playing surface).

1 14″ full-extension drawer slide set (for the keyboard drawer).

1 sheet of 3/32″-thick clear polycarbonate.

1 2’x4′ sheet of 1/4″-thick medium-density fiberboard.

1 2’x4′ sheet of 1/2″-thick medium-density fiberboard.2 2’x4′ sheets of 3/4″-thick medium-density fiberboard.Believe me when I say that medium density fiberboard is very heavy stuff! Taking advantage of opportunities may require rescheduling others, right? My mom and dad came to visit today in light of Penn State’s “Parents & Families Weekend”, and to reduce future trips to the Home Depot and Lowe’s off campus, we spent a couple hours to acquire the largest items on the (still-in-progress) Bill of Materials. Top button reinforcement underlay: 7/32″ birch plywood.Bottom sliding cover: 1/2″ pine plywood.Top, sides, and bottom sliding cover handle: 5/8″ pine plywood.Pop’n Music Arcade-Style Controller panel thicknesses: On a side note, it’s a shame I didn’t keep strict documentation of the materials – and more importantly, the dimensions – used in building the ASC, though, in case I ever plan to construct another one some day.

My plan is to reference these thicknesses for this project, especially since Sanwa’s famous OBSN-30 screw-in arcade buttons can only take surfaces up to ~1/4″ thick, while the analog joysticks and spinners can mount on heavier stock. You can see the 2D CAD diagrams in the eighth and ninth images down that page, or just click here and here for the 96dpi images.Įarlier today, I spent a few minutes revisiting the now-well-worn Pop’n Music Arcade-Style Controller in order to measure all of its panel thicknesses. For now, I plan to use the P1 (and possibly P2) Sega-type layouts for this panel due to their ergonomic, if unorthodox, slanting. Coupled with my current EDSGN 496A course in this powerful 3D CAD application, creating a virtualization of the controller’s entire housing will help me avoid costly mistakes once construction begins. I’ll get some images up soon! Other than the Bill of Materials, priority for the past few days was spent on making a mockup of the player 1 button panel in SolidWorks, referenced from slagcoin‘s excellent “ Panel Layout” page. I can’t count on my memory nor Mozilla Firefox with Session Manager to handle it in the mean time, can I? MAME Control Panel Gantt Chart – Septem(PDF)įinally started building the Bill of Materials on a spreadsheet. MAME Control Panel Design Proposal – Septem(PDF) With the submission of my Design Plan and Gantt Chart, today’s the kickoff of “Kevin’s Arcade – A MAME Controller Project”! The Design Plan lists and explains the overall scope, engineering requirements, and proposed solutions to be fulfilled, and the Gantt Chart specifies the timeline for the project’s undertaking. So sit back, read up, and enjoy the next few months! My plans are to complete everything on time in a thorough and elegant manner, so that not only will I satisfy the course requirements, but also continue my passion for video gaming and applied engineering.

#TYRIAN 2000 CONTROLLER PORTABLE#

The goal is to design, build, and document a full-size portable arcade control panel for the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator software package and other applications capable of handling arcade controls. The documentation is handled in this page, albeit in a highly-informal and visual manner: day-by-day updates, photos, and videos will be posted over the course of this semester, along with copies of the documents submitted to my supervisor. The EE 403W course for which this capstone design project will fulfill is an independent project, supervised by a technical mentor, with writing, presentation, and documentation components. This time, the end of my undergraduate career at Penn State is nigh, but I plan to finish it with more practicality and much less noise! Four years ago, the Tesla Coil Graduation Project lit up my backyard with hundreds of thousands of volts, bringing an end to high school and affirming my electrical engineering endeavors.

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