XCVG's Bartop Candy Cab

XCVG · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:12 pm

Currently filling, sanding, filling. More accurately, my dad is filling and sanding while I stand there and... you don't want to know.

βeta · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:16 pm

XCVG · **Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:18 pm

I cut out the fan holes with my Dremel and circle cutter attachment, it was fun. I also made a little power bar for the fans.

Mario · **Joined:** Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:11 pm **Posts:** 1722

With these kinds of projects where you really have nothing to do, or waiting on some kind of part, or whatever, you will usually find yourself thinking of ANYTHING you can add to it. This is how I thought to put an extra heatsink, temp monitor, and fans/24v batteries on my weed whacker bike. This can also be a bad thing, though, because you will want to start adding unnecessary things, just so you can work on it.

Watch out.

XCVG · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:29 pm

Not quite done, still needs a marquee, but it's put together and playable.

Painting is done in this picture. You can see the monitor in the background.

Monitor and motherboard tray are in. You can see the hard drive mount thingy, power supply, and bread-shaped panel cutout.

Wiring almost finished, a huge mess. This part was both fun and a pain in the ass. You can sort of see how the hard drive goes in, and how the wires are routed.

CP is in and computer is booting. We had some trouble with it. The P1 and P2 controls were swapped. Turned out it matters what USB port they are plugged into. I guess lower number USB port=controller 1. Plugging the cables in is a real pain because the video card gets in the way. Also, the light flickered and died shortly after this picture was taken. It got hot and smelled really bad. Guess it couldn't take the "6V" from the power brick. Next time, I'll run it off 5V from the PC. We also found out the fans are kind of loud. It's fine during gameplay as it gets drowned out, but it's kind of annoying in the menus.

I may make a video some time soon.

seanmacdonn · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:36 pm

First time I looked here. This is impressive!!! can't wait to see a video

βeta · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:21 pm

That looks really well built, but the paint design is amateur as Heck.

Mako321 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:36 pm **Posts:** 3403

THICK RED HORIZONTAL STRIPE ON THE MONITOR CASE AREA
Or, make it all white instead of that beigeish white

XCVG · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:27 pm

It's actually not beige at all. It's a slightly greyish white that looks almost pure white in here. Anyway, I don't think I'll get the video done until Monday or Tuesday.

3MZ · **Posted:** Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:30 pm

Is this project dead? Or on hold or what?

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