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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  7d ago (text post)   304 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for January 14, 2025

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

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Update on the arcade cabinet from last week. The drawer has been fabricated and installed. It could be a tiny bit better, but it's Good Enough that only I really know the issue. It's maybe 2mm or so out of square... it's not the end of the world and it functions the way it should.

Next up will be all of the wiring. So many wires for all of the controls and buttons. I'm really hoping that I can get all that done by next week. It should be eminently doable. After that it's mainly going to be finishing the wood.

Did you plan the wiring in advance or are you going to do it on the fly?

I have a MiSTer FPGA with the Jammix card and a JAMMA (Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association) harness. So, in theory at least, it should be mostly plug and play. But there's a rats nest of wires so it's a bit intimidating.

It's a pretty standard two joystick and six buttons per side setup so there shouldn't be that much hardship. I do have to add a couple of wires myself since I'm going to wire it up using CHAMMA. (CHinese vs. Japanese -- The Chinese one support six buttons without an added harness)

The whole build was an adventure. I designed the basic outline of the cabinet and cut that. Basically everything else has been a matter of cut-to-fit after that. It's probably not the best way to do it, but it's fun and it's been a learning experience.

It's probably not the best way to do it, but it's fun and it's been a learning experience.

Story of my life. Sounds fun!

I think much of this is an effort to get out of a loop of analysis paralysis. I have a bad habit of overthinking things and not doing the things. A lot of this was (after getting frustrated of not doing things) just forcing myself to just take the next step. The worst likely outcome that may happen is I waste a pile of wood and time and trade that for experience.

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