Seven, seven and three-point-seven...or: 7, 7 & 3.7

[slaying_jaded]

Seven months since mike_zero and I became a couple/declared exclusivity/kissed/started to fall in love/et cetera...

Seventh vertebra in my neck is broken, permanently, but in a stable way. It's an uncommon break called a Clay-Shoveler's Fracture and it's where a bit of bone is snapped off due to hyperflexion with the arms extended. I probably did it in

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[insaneexistence]

Well I am looking to make one shortly. I have a place to order joysticks, fire buttons, and the player 1 and 2 buttons from. The joysticks are around $23, and most of the buttons are reasonable given their hardened robustness, at around $3-4 ea. The other thing would be a piece of slightly tinted glass cut and edges rounded from a glazier. I doubt that would be all that expensive either. I was thinking of foregoing the welded legs, and opting for little feet instead. Initially, I was all for the "genuine, stock standard" design, but since I'm using a computer monitor, I guess I will customize it a little.

If you want a coin slot, the place I'm ordering the hardware from also has them, you plug it into a spare 12v output from the computer's power supply, and then just connect it to the control interface, so that it registers as you pressed a button each time the coin is inserted. Or you could go for the older style coin slots, which are a bit simpler to hook up and don't need a power supply.

These days 17" CRT computer monitors are pretty cheap too.

A secondhand Pentium III would also be quite cheap if you look around the swap meets, possibly under $100, I reckon.