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8. Final Touches

First Surprise...

As my cabinet will not have a roof (since it is a cocktail cabinet, daaah) and I wanted to put the MAME logo somewhere on it, I decided to use a kind of backlight effect using 2 acrylic tablets with the logo inside.

That´s the reason of the little (and wider) cut on the table, letting the light pass through and hitting the acrylic. It´s a simple and nice effect!

To confine the light I used an old plastic box I found in my hardware junk (it´s a microphone box)

With the help of 2 metalic supports the light bulb could be easily reached and removed at any time for maintainance.

Here is the acrylic sandwich that hold the official MAME logo (extracted from www.mamenet.org site - it´s a hi-res logo) that was printed on a color printer.

The beauty of the effect here was hidden by the camera flash :(

But you can see a little glow coming from the back of the acrylic.

Second Surprise!

Again, I found in my hardware junk an old touchpad that will be very helpful to navigate through Windows - most of the Windows configurations could be easily made with just a mouse, so I tought it was a good ideia to have this guy accessible on the table.

This touchpad is currently using the serial port of the motherboard.

Better safe than sorry!

As many games will be using the rotating feature I thought it was a good idea to supply additional fresh air to the computer monitor.

I found a huge fan for about $3 dollars. It´s a 12 Volts - 300mA fan so it was easily connected to the power supply.

And the results were espectacular! Even on the rotated state the monitor is completely cold!

And it´s easy to assemble too! I used only 2 screws over the ventilation holes of the monitor. They adapted perfectly. It took just 2 minutes to accomplish that.

I used the right side of the table to put all the energy connections.

It´s a simple line filter.

Well, the last but not least, I added the speakers to the cabinet.

Digging through many hardware junk depots I found these beauties for about $9 dollars.

They came with a power transformer and have 50 Watts PMPO per channel. Good enough for those mono-noises, isn´t it?

My luck was to find these speakers in this shape, since we always find those little ugly boxes. They perfectly matched the size and width of the table´s legs.