My MAME Project
UPDATE::12/12/02
My spinner sucked, and i assumed this is why i never used it. I ordered an intelligently engineered one from Oscarcontrols.com.
I got the Mark 1 with alum knob and axis switching. I was planning to also hookup a button to switch axis back and forth, a poor man's trackball, but not that simple
UPDATE:6/26/03
My cats love to get inside the mame cabinet and chew on wires, etc. They must have unpluged the oscar spinner's optical board from the mouse interface a
couple hundred times before the unavoidable happened, i plugged the IR detector into the emitter plug! BZZZT, by by IR detector! UGH!
Fortunately i still had my lame spinnder (below) laying around, i unsoldered the IR detector and put it in place of the oscar one. The detectors
are labeled "EL" on top (got me) the "E" seemed to be + (the red wire went to it) and the lead coming out for the "E" was thinner then the "L", i just
made sure to match them up and SUCCESS!
You can see the detector on the second picture below, its a little black box with "EL" stamped into it.
Spinner - I wanted a little spinner for Discs Of Tron, etc
I never really use the spinner, it was kinda a waste of time to build one, but oh well
I'd recommend adding the spinner last since you may end up not even wanting one
Dave + lpad(aka volume knob) + joystick extender for metal control panels + mouse + stave(aka pc slot cover) = spinner!
But how do you make those parts co-exist? LOTS OF HOTMELT!
