Week 13: Lighting the marquee and more
Wow! It’s been a while. Dad and I started working again earlier a couple weeks ago in the summer. Since Winter was largely useless, it’s nice to get back at it. Continue reading FiF, Jr: Week 13
Category Archives: Fix It Felix, Jr. Arcade Cabinet
This category is about the arcade game, Fix-it Felix, Jr. Sergio scratch built a Fix-It Felix, Jr. cabinet. Everything from cutting the wood, building the cabinet, setting up the computer hardware, creating artwork, programming the front end and software, and playing the game!
FiF, Jr: Week 12
Week 12: A Marquee is nice
This was the first week back to work during the winter. We built the marquee area. We’ve decided to build from the top down, because artwork pieces have a specific size that we must get right. This wasn’t too tricky, just had to make a little box that the light behind the marquee will sit behind. The one snag we ran into was that our cabinet has a full frame, so we had to make our pieces go around that frame. Here’s some pictures of the artwork mocked in place!
FiF, Jr: Week 11
Week 11: Arcade Controls
The controls interface with the computer pretty easily. First, you get buttons and a joystick. You can see mine below, I picked the buttons I wanted based on size and color to match Fix it Felix. Continue reading FiF, Jr: Week 11
FiF, Jr: Week 10
Week 10: A look at the computer and software
It’s actually been quite a few weeks since I’ve posted any progress. Christmas and Winter combined made it tough to do much work. We don’t have a heated garage so the cabinet was moved to the basement. We can’t paint down there so we’ll have to wait until spring to do that. But that has given me more time to work on the electrical and software side of it! Continue reading FiF, Jr: Week 10
FiF, Jr: Week 9
Week 9: Fitting the lower pieces
Now that we’re ready to put the middle pieces in, we found they were a little tight. So we trimmed the edges off a couple. Continue reading FiF, Jr: Week 9
FiF, Jr: Week 8
Week 8: Finishing the frame
This is actually a couple weeks of work, but I’m combining it into one as it took much longer than it should have. Basically, we finished the frame and then attached the two sides. Continue reading FiF, Jr: Week 8
FiF, Jr: Week 7
Week 7: Some mockup and measuring
Not a lot of progress, some other life events are getting in the way of work! But a couple little things were done. The frame is basically finished. Continue reading FiF, Jr: Week 7
FiF, Jr: Week 6
Week 6: Finishing the coin door
Well, we finished the frame. It was too dark to get pictures of it, but basically it looks like a big chair. It was also too late to attach the sides but I’m sure we’ll finish that next week. Continue reading FiF, Jr: Week 6
FiF, Jr: Week 5
Week 5: Building a frame
We finished constructing the bottom box and floor of the cabinet, and also put together the back frame. Now all we have to do is finish the frame and we can start putting the sides on. Continue reading FiF, Jr: Week 5
FiF, Jr: Week 4
Week 4: Painting and coin door
This week was mostly a painting week. I’ve got all the pieces fully primed, so next we can start assembling. We’ll do the final paint after that. Lastly you can see the coin door, I’ve got all the old paint scraped off and fixed the bent corner. I also sanded it to the max! It doesn’t look nice now but it’s actually pretty smooth. Now, I just have to repaint and hopefully it’ll be good to go. Continue reading FiF, Jr: Week 4