IRL Projects/Hobbies!

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Hello users of this forum! I want to make this thread to be somewhere where you can post projects that you are making IRL just to show them off, get feedback, or just for fun! It's a way for all of us to get to know each other better

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For my project, I am refurbishing an old "Iron Horse" arcade cabinet by Konami. I feel kinda bad because this cabinet/game is rated 10 on a rarity scale of 1-100. (1 being the most rare and 100 being most common. I really like this cabinet because of its close resemblance to donkey kong/popeye cabinets. The program I'm going to be putting inside the cabinet is called "hyperspin" and it's a front-end for emulators like mame and snex9x. I'm going to repaint the whole thing black and add LED tmolding. 

For example:

(tmolding is the rubber lining the cabinet.)

I'm also going to put on a custom marquee that I made in photoshop:

I'm not done with the marquee this is just a rough draft. I want to make sure I'm 100% satisfied before I get it printed on plexiglass I'm trying to put a symbol/character from every game inside the cabinet. 

Here's what the cabinet looks like as of today after I brought it home and put it in my room:

...(ignore the poster on the wall in the first one lol it's an inside joke p.s. none of those people are me lol)

I paid $300 for it on craigslist from a really cool guy who's a full time arcade collector. It's in great shape with no water damage and a working monitor/sound. I also have to add a new light for the marquee. The control panel is a bit steep but I don't mind that much. I'm going to completely re-do it and put 2 joysticks and 6 happ buttons for each player. I'm also going to add extra buttons for pausing, selecting, etc... The coin door works but I'm going to add custom "insert coin" buttons so you don't have to put a quarter in every time you want to play a game lol.

I want to make this thing as slick as possible while maintaining the classic "arcade" feel.

I want to try to get this done within 2 or 3 weeks.

Wish me luck I'll keep this page updated with more pictures as I go along!  

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As for the thread, post some cool projects that you're doing IRL! I'd really like to see what kind of hobbies you guys are in to!