Russ's 'Weenix' cabinet

[virtvic]

Thank you sir!

If I can't find another Subelectro Isis cab, itll be making it out of that stuff!

 

[iamjimmi]

That is the Chihuahua's B*ll*X.

Brilliant - off to check out your pi-station now...

 

[retromax]

Oh and the coin door was a regular twin coin door cut in half and rotated to which I took about 2 hours grinding the bloody bezel off it

but was worth it in the end. The marquee rails and control panel came from the same piece of aluminium I had lying around to which I bent without any special bending stuff... I had a hammer a vice and a belt sander!. I also removed the original PSU from the TV and some of the components looked a bit corroded so I used an Xbox360 PSU instead (plenty of amps there) into the 12v connector on the TV.

The marquee light is one of those usb backlight strips that you put behind your tv, it's 2X25cm strips that go right around the inside edge which reflect down onto a foil covered card mounted behind the glass, there's not much room behind there as the speaker is right behind the glass.
Russ2016-09-30 21:09:15

 

[virtvic]

Hey Russ,

Did you say you were looking at a small cab I made a while ago? Which one? The full sized Trimline I made or the half size one I made (which still isn't finished)

 

[frothmeister]

Brilliant job buddy.

 

[retromax]

Hey Russ,

Did you say you were looking at a small cab I made a while ago? Which one? The full sized Trimline I made or the half size one I made (which still isn't finished)

I remember both and I thought they were both finished but I guess that was the Taito one

 

[retromax]

Obviously Olly (muddymusic) did all my artwork, Including redrawing the outer border on the side art to match my cab better as it's slightly different in shape from the original. He did a top job and it wouldn't be the same without it.

 

[Hurray Banana]

Don't know how I missed this, your joinery skills are excellent mate. Looks great.

Top job

 

[ocb]

Wow - what a great cab!

I am looking to build a pi-cab for the living room (my kids are addicted to the film Pixels just now). I can't say I'm aiming at your level - but a joy to see someone do such a fantastic job, given all the cheap MDF "kits" on eBay!

 

[minwah]

I thought mine were small but this really is a mini cabinet...and looks amazing!

If it's a TV, are you using the composite out from the Pi? Guess a TV that small probably doesn't have Scart for RGB?

Again well done, I love this. Trouble is I've got a 9" monitor and you've given me ideas...I don't have time for ideas...

 

[retromax]

I thought mine were small but this really is a mini cabinet...and looks amazing!

If it's a TV, are you using the composite out from the Pi? Guess a TV that small probably doesn't have Scart for RGB?

Again well done, I love this. Trouble is I've got a 9" monitor and you've given me ideas...I don't have time for ideas...

Yeah just composite input on the tv, it's that small thought that you don't get dot crawl and you can see the scan lines!
The picture really does look great and nothing like anything modern would.

 

[minwah]

Yeah just composite input on the tv, it's that small thought that you don't get dot crawl and you can see the scan lines!
The picture really does look great and nothing like anything modern would.

I've got a 10" JVC monitor but wasn't happy with composite from a Pi personally...I couldn't work out how to use low res modes via composite and the interlacing flicker did my head in. I've now got a 9" Sony monitor with RGB inputs driven via HDMI > VGA adaptor...looks great running low res modes.