spookyworld adventures

01.26 - Touchscreen is now installed!

I finally managed to complete two major projects: the touchscreen interface for the bar soundsystem and the Asteroids Deluxe arcade game.

The bar soundsystem consists of a computer in the soffit with a touchscreen and remote attached -- no keyboard or mouse. I'm still writing the software for the interface, but for now I just use my streaming MP3 server (TVDinner) and Winamp.

The Asteriods Deluxe was an excellent find -- a freebie! I've documented the restoration process from start to finish (if I can say I'm finished.)

08.21 - Shelves

This morning I sketched out some shelves to hold all of the different beer bottles that I've collected. They were sitting in the window, but I was starting to run out of space. A few pieces of scrap and a few hours of work and I had my shelves.

I also took down the shelves under the bar and started sealing them with polyurethane. In hindsight, MDF wasn't a good idea for shelves that will get wet.

05.02 - Gameroom

Up to this point, we've worked on more bar than gameroom. Granted, there is a TV, airhockey table, and dart board but it still didn't feel like a gameroom.

So my friend Bobsteve managed to track down an Asteroids Deluxe cabinet. After practically killing Red in the moving process, we finally managed to get it into my basement. At this point, it doesn't work but I've found the manual and schematics and will be working to either fix it or convert it to a MAME cabinet.

04.10 - Lull

With the closet shelves finished, I've reach a lull in the action. I'm working to get the remote for the bar soundsystem configured. I've installed a video card with video out so that I can play movies from the soundsystem PC to the TV in the corner.

03.11 - Soundsystem Update

Well, I managed to get most of the soundsystem complete and installed into the bar soffit. The touchscreen is still in the works, but I'm able to connect to it remotely via VNC and get music queued up.

The closet shelving system is now underway which is proving to be more challenging than I had first imagined. When that's complete, I can start working on the kid's drawing table.

Trying to decide on how to repaint the floor...

02.20 - Finally, Closet Doors!

Red came out today and we finally got the closet doors installed. It turned out a lot easier than I thought it would be -- the bottom brackets didn't need to be attached to the concrete after all.

We also got to work on a drink table attached to the pole. We found some nice decrative pine shelf mounts that worked out great. The shelf top still needs to be re-mitred and attached, but the mock-up works out great.