Wednesday, December 17, 2014

(12-13-2014) New racing simulators

The latest addition to the shop are a couple of racing cabinet rescued from a local arcade.  They're a bit beat up, but after putting some new hardware and beating some of the metal back into shape with hammer they're looking pretty good again.  I still want to reinforce the set bottoms with some metal tubing, but that will come in time.

They're currently running Sony Playstation 3's, but I'm building the first PC for one of them now and hopefully sometime soon I'll be able to get a second PC set up for some LAN playable racing.

The CNC mill has also been progressing.  The new motors are mounted onto the CNC mill and the steppers are moving around, but I've yet to successfully test out a g-code file with proper results.  It's so close to being finished, just need to push and get the last few items finished up.