http://matthack.com Part Time Hacker, Full Time Slacker Thu, 22 May 2008 23:17:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey everyone! Welcome to Matt Hack! This is my first website, so bear with me while I get everything up, running and figured out. Eventually I would like to have every project/hack/whatever you like to call them, that I have created, documented here with pictures, text and of course... how to's. ... http://matthack.com/2007/12/23/welcome-to-matt-hack/ So, I built this MAME arcade cabinet in grade 10 tech class (wood shop) as a special project instead of the normal stuff, aka wall clock and box. It's kind of a funny story actually. I asked my teacher if I could build it and he said sure, so I ... http://matthack.com/2008/01/03/how-it-all-started/ A MAME cabinet is a replica arcade cabinet (Pac Man machine type thing) or an actual arcade cabinet that runs the MAME software on a computer inside the cabinet instead of the original game hardware. MAME stands for multiple arcade machine emulator, and it is a software that can ... http://matthack.com/2008/01/05/what-its-all-about/ I started off with the idea of retrofitting an old arcade cabinet with a computer running MAME and interfacing the old controls with an I-Pac, but there wasn't really anything for sale around here that was of decent quality and under 300 bucks, so I decided I'd just build ... http://matthack.com/2008/01/05/how-to-getter-done/ -MDF burns pretty easily, watch out when your cutting it. It's no biggie cause you're going to paint over it anyways, but damn does it stink. -Always pre drill holes in the Plexi glass (slowly). This prevents it from cracking (total bummer). -ALWAYS WEAR A MASK while cutting, drilling, or sanding MDF. ... http://matthack.com/2008/01/05/hints-and-tricky-bits/ [gallery=1] http://matthack.com/2008/01/05/pictures/ To do: -Install speaker grills -Install backlight behind marquee (DONE!) -Tweak software -Get faster computer http://matthack.com/2008/01/05/whats-next/ Check out the MAME Arcade blog, the Coil Gun v1.0 blog, The Time Fountain Remake blog, and Our Particle Accelerator Hardware blog :) Theres more to come soon, so check back often! http://matthack.com/2008/01/05/ch-ch-ch-check-it-out/ It was a dark and dreary January day and my home slice Mike and I were walking back from our first professional engineering class of the semester. It wasn’t that cold out but it was sooo crazy windy so we decided to take a short cut behind the Tandem Accelerator ... http://matthack.com/2008/01/10/the-ultimate-dumpster-dive/ [gallery=2] http://matthack.com/2008/01/10/pictures-2/