![]() The front toe kick area fits a 1x4 poplar board. But the interior is huge so I'm sure pretty much anything could fit in there. I just got a crappy $200 Dell to put in there and it's a pretty small computer so if you have a big gaming rig you may have to make some adjustments. I made a little tray at the bottom for my computer to lay on. I mostly just glued the 2x4's to the MDF. So I needed some good wood to screw those into and it would have to hold the weight. The true reason I added so much bracing was because our basement floor is very un-even and I absolutely NEEDED adjustable feet. You can see all the 2x4's and where I put them. And I did it after I had glued up the MDF. The walls for the control panel were all cut to 4" tall. I cut that all out on the table saw and went 29" Wide. The Dados were extremely nice during the assembly step. It ended up not being a big deal because the T-Moulding hides it, and i've since then removed that path from the SVG for the control panel top so shouldn't be an issue for anyone else. It wouldn't be my project if I didn't screw at least one thing up. I screwed up and cut along a path intended for the control panel BOTTOM. You should see in the second picture where I have red circles. It's on a piano hinge and I didn't want the top to get hung up on the control panel walls. You want that top dado to be a little sloppy. The pocket cut on the underside of the control panel top I added a 1/4" big negative offset. Every time you have to add a -0.01" offset to my design you have to take a drink. I do think I had to add a -0.01" offset for the perfect fit. The pocket cuts for the dado's on the control panel, control panel bottom, and sides all went 1/4" deep. Again, give yourself more wiggle room than I did. If you do cut the Plexi separately, remember to use the same offsets on the buttons you used on the MDF. And I had to bust out a Dremel and sand the insides of some of the buttons to get things to line up perfectly. Somehow my cuts were just slightly different between the MDF and the Plexi. If I were to do it again, I would just stack them on top of each other and double-sided tape and clamp them together and do them at the same time. I cut the plexiglass separately from the MDF. Or another good idea I just now had would be to use a T-Track cutting bit and cut out the area for the bezel from the bottom. In hindsight I would have just used a 1/8" rabbeting bit on a normal router to cut this from the opposite side of the panel of MDF instead of the Shaper. ![]() ![]() Just be careful to not go all the way through into the pocket you made on the other side. Depth = Height of bezel - 1/8" (plexiglass height). I used a -0.01" offset, and I think I went to a depth of. Very important that you cut out this path on the top of the MDF and the Plexiglass. THIS IS FOR THE BEZEL ON THE ROLLER BALL. The outermost circle path you have to cut from the top. The innermost one you cut from the bottom and give a -0.02" offset. There are two circle paths for the roller. So just used it visually for spacing.Ġ.215" Pocket. The blue guides on the button holes represent the bezel on top of the button. Doing it again, I would make them even bigger since the buttons were just unnecessarily tight fitting. I used a -0.01" offset on the button holes. I mean alternatively just use a countersink bit on your drill and be done in 3 seconds instead of doing that. So on the same screw hole path I set a depth of 0.237" Depth and -0.1" offset. I found that the screw heads for the Hidden Hardware needed a little bit of countersink to make sure they were flush with the MDF before putting the joysticks and track ball on it. So the screw holes do not go all the way through the material. I used Hidden Hardware Joystick and Trackball mountaing kits. There are a lot of designs out there that can conform to multiple styles of controls but this DOES NOT.Īdditionally I had to slightly change some of the offsets on the controls (do test cuts). ![]() The control panel was designed around Happ-style arcade controls, and an Ultimark U-Track trackball. Pedestal Arcade! This has been a hit for our family and our entire neighborhood really. ![]()
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