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The back ground for building the
ArcadeStik KIT is that I wanted to make a nice arcade joystick
that looked better than the ones you can buy from X-arcade and
others and at the same time is very easy to build. I think I
accomplished the latter, after receiving my kit, only two hours
passed before I had a working arcade joystick. I let you be the
judge on how it looks. After all, looks are totally subjective.
Buy the
ArcadeStik KIT here
I would like to thank Andy at Ultimarc.com
and ArcadeShop.de for sponsoring some of the parts for this
project. I can definitely recommend both places for great
support and great products. Now go buy some pushbuttons and
joysticks.
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After countless hours of designing
and trying to solve all problems before receiving the prototype,
it's totally nerve wrecking to actually open the kit and see if
everything is as you imagined it to be. |
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Fortunately everything looked even
better than I expected and all edges was much smoother than I
hope for. |
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Here the excess material is removed
and you can see all the parts of the kit, except the transparent
bottom panel. |
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Starting with finding a right
angled wall and table to bond the first two parts with the
solvent (Acrifix 116, same as Weld-on #16, I recommend both for
this kind of build). |
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It was so fast to assemble that I
forgot to take a picture of the other side. So now you see both
the back and the two sides. |
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The box is pretty much finished,
now I just need to make the mouldings for the bottom panel. |
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I just marked where the moulding
needed to bond and then held it on for about two minutes. |
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Same procedure here...
Its hard to see on this picture,
but remember the small triangles in the kit? They are used to
reinforce the mouldings, look beneath the moulding. |
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This half-moon shaped piece is for
supporting the bottom panel. Then you apply the rubber feet, the
bottom panel is carrying all the weight. There is another
half-moon shaped piece in the other side too. |
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