Light Brite
Testing the button lighting and need some opinions…. I have three different LEDs: Button Blaster (white) from Groovy Game Gear, Orange 15° (RL5-O5015) Beam from SuperBrightLEDs.com, and Orange 30° Beam […]
Bits & Pieces
There are so many details this list will not even begin…
Hey Mr. Postman
Look what the postman brought me this morning! Well, not the postman really, more like the guy who delivers our stuff from the platers. So I got to work this […]
And There Was Light and It Was Good
Got the back lights mounted on the back panels tonight. I was waiting for the 4-40 Nylon screws and lock nuts to come in, so when they arrived in the […]
Taking the Plunge
Due in large part to the nice folks over the Arcade Control Forum, we decided we needed a real pinball plunger. I was reading about John’s Retro Arcade pinball plunger […]
Jingle…Jangle…Clink
The sound of a coin dropping into an arcade machine is unmistakable. When the Cowboy Arcade project began, I decided not to put a working coin mechanism into the cabinet. […]
Let There Be Light
We decided some ambient lighting would be cool. A little research brought us to LEDGlow. We selected the expandable orange 4 pc. interior kit and got 2 sets. Each set […]
Hey Mr. Postman, Bring Me a Dream
Or a hard drive. A hard drive loaded with emulators, frontends, ROM images, video previews, artwork, etc. Oh Boy! Sir Nick at ROMCollector.com hooked us up. Now the fun part. […]
Sound II
The Logitech Z-2300 2.1 Speaker system arrived and I immediately dismantled it. Turns out that this system is going to work perfectly! The satellite speakers have removable grills held in […]
Control is an Illusion
In life, control is an illusion, but in an arcade cab it is the key that unlocks all the doors. After reading about a thousand threads on ArcadeControls.com and studying […]
The Sound of Fury
Any MAME project worth it’s salt needs a good sound system to faithfully (if not a little louder) reproduce the wonderful sounds that are so much a part of the […]