Category Archives: project
Mame Machine 2.0
Way back in 1999 I purchased a dead wrestle mania arcade game cabinet from schafer vending services and built a MAME (multiple arcade machine emulator) box to interface with the existing controls. Dig Dug, Pac-Man, Awesome…
The cabinet needs an upgrade, here’s the start. Mame OS on compact flash and a faster processor. More to follow.
Head Concept
Baby Will
Researching the 18 watt marshal Bluesbreaker Jr. Design I found the Baby Will Epiphone Valve Junior mod board and couldn’t resist. It shipped as a blank 1/8″ tank like PCB. Here’s the PCB with most of the components placed.
The New Tolex Is Here.
2×12 Cabinet Layout
Kustom KEI 12″ Speaker
Purchased a pair of Kustom KEI 12″ speakers at Music-Go-Round. This is an amazing Ohio made speaker, sounds awesome in the cabinet. 16 ohms run in parallel for a 8 ohm cabinet.
Chassis Drilled and Deburred
Bluesbreaker
This is my first pedal kit from General Guitar Gadgets. I purchased it about a year ago. I painted it and applied a water slide decal and then let it sit on a shelf. Assembly took about 6 hours with the majority of the time spent connecting the jacks and pots to the pcb. Sound clip to follow in another post.
Snowday Stomp Box II – Protoboard!
I’ve been looking at several schematics for stomp boxes and I like the idea of a prototype platform geared towards guitar effects. Inspired by ZZZZZZZ I wanted to build a self contained breadboard with easy access to 1/4″ IO and an assortment of switches and potentiometers.
Here’s the results:
Roadmap
Gut Shot
The potentieometers will feed the headers on this protoboard along with the 4 dip switches shown
Here is the completed 5 pot + 1 spdt switch box
I ebayed a couple new breadboards, I’ll post new pics when the project starts coming together.