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General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: arcadefever on October 05, 2006, 12:53:55 AM

Title: i just PIMP my little test bench
Post by: arcadefever on October 05, 2006, 12:53:55 AM

back from vacation,  back to work (http://spaceinvaders.7.forumer.com/images/smiles/weight_lift.gif)  first my old test bench, remember ?

http://www.arcadefever.net/TESTBENCH/TESTBENCH.html

why PIMP it ? well , i use it very often, and i wanted to add some new stuff:

on/off main power switch
on/off monitor switch(http://spaceinvaders.7.forumer.com/images/smiles/whistling.gif)
volume control
wheels (to carry that soccer everywhere)
 a cool blue neon "pimp style"  
and get rid of the big controller and replace it with a genesis pad

after few hours of hard (http://spaceinvaders.7.forumer.com/images/smiles/construction.gif)  and a little bit of (http://spaceinvaders.7.forumer.com/images/smiles/sorcerer.gif)
first install the neon and add a new psu

(http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/6476/kif2151ck1.jpg)

then hack an old genesis pad

(http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3033/kif2157hs7.jpg)

add all the new stuff and VOILA  8)

(http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/2842/kif2169vx7.jpg)
 
power on (http://spaceinvaders.7.forumer.com/images/smiles/w00t.gif)

(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/9317/kif2168ix9.jpg)

tested with shadow dancer

(http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/5365/kif2161yd7.jpg)
(http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/9696/kif2162gd0.jpg)
(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/2301/kif2167yr2.jpg)
(http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/8426/kif2163qb6.jpg)

that a very cool mini arcade to test bench boards, the monitor is a 5" multi sync transform to work on 15 mhz.