The Corona Kegerator: We had an old Coldspot refrigerator in our basement when we bought our house. It never got much use, so I decided to turn it into a Kegerator. It now holds a Quarter Barrel of beer at a perfect 36 Degrees. I created a Template of the Corona Beer logo and painted it on the front of the refrigerator. It was already painted Corona Yellow when we moved in. How lucky was that? I ordered a refrigerator conversion kit online, ran down to the party store to pick up a keg, drilled a hole in the front of the fridge, stuck the beer faucet through the hole, hooked the keg up to the C02 tank and up to the faucet, and that was about all there was to it. I made a custom spill tray. I had a metal Corona bucket used for 6-packs, so I cut that down the middle, fastened an piece of sheet metal to the back of the bucket, siliconed it to make it water proof and added a grate to the top of the bucket so you had some place to sit your glass. Then I cut a couple keyholes in the sheet metal so I could hang it on the door.

My Arcade Machine: This machine is just over 6 feet tall. ARTWORK: It has custom Marquee and Control Panel artwork. there is matching artwork for the sides of the cabinet, but I haven't printed them yet. SOUND: It has 2 stereo speakers, as well as a subwoofer. The subwoofer is a standard PC subwoofer. the speakers, which are mounted under the Marquee are 6" car stereo speakers that were hacked to use the amplifier from a set of PC speakers. The volume control for the speakers is mounted in the lower right hand corner of the monitor bezel. CHROME TRIM: The chrome trim that runs around the cabinet and control panel is self-adhesive chrome trim used for automotive wheel-opening molding. MONITOR: The arcade monitor is a standard 17" computer monitor. Surrounding the monitor is plexiglass that was spray painted black from the back side. CONTROL PANEL: The control panel has 2 8-way joysticks, with 6 buttons each, 1 4-way joystick with 2 buttons, 1 Trackball with 2 buttons, 1 and 2 player buttons, a game select button, and a quit button that stops your current game and brings you back into MAME to select another game to play. There are also 2 buttons on the sides of the control panel for use with Pinball games. The control panel lifts up to reveal all the wiring for the buttons, as well as an I-Pac keyboard encoder for the Joysticks and buttons, as well as an Opti-Pac keyboard encoder that is hooked up to the trackball. STEERING WHEEL: The steering wheel is an original wheel from an old arcade game, that I modified to slide in and out of my arcade cabinet. It is used with racing games. The steering wheel is connected to a piece of PVC pipe that is painted black. The PVC slides into the original steering wheel collar and down into a fixture I made with a mouse connected to it. The mouse is fastened to a block of wood. The block of wood has a hole drilled in it the size of the PVC pipe, so when the PVC is inserted in the block, it rests between the block of wood and the mouse. When you turn the wheel, it turns the PVC pipe, which moves the ball on the bottom of the mouse left or right, and that is how it steers. It's pretty crude, but it is very reliable and acurate. COIN DOOR: The coin door is used. I bought it on eBay. I hooked the lights in the coin door up to the I-Pac in the control panel. They run off 5V. The coin triggers were hooked up to the I-Pac as well. Now when you drop a quarter in either one of the slots, it trips the wire and registers a coin within MAME. The coin then drops down into a collection bucket in the bottom of the coin door. . MARQUEE: The marquee is custom artwork that was printed at a local print shop. It was then sandwiched between two pieces of plexiglass. There is a 12" flourescent light that I picked up at Home Depot befind the Marquee that lights up when you power on the machine. SOFTWARE: The computer inside my arcade cabinet is a Pentium III 950 Mhz, with 512 MB of Ram. The video card is nothing special. I should probably upgarde it. I'm sure it would help with some of the newer games. It is running Windows XP and MAME-32. I also hve DAPHNE installed, so I can play the original Dragon's Lair game.MISCELLANEOUS: There is an access door on the back of the cabinet for making upgrades to the computer. There is also a floor vent in the bottom of the cabinet, as well as ventillation foles on the back of the machine to keep everything from getting too hot. I mounted a drink holder on each side of the machine to keep your beer close at hand. There is also an extra piece of plexiglass mounted on the front of the cabinet below the Coin Door that is used as a kick plate to keep the front of the machine from getting scruffed up.

Contol Panel without the Steering Wheel:














TURBO: Running on MAME-32


Coin Door, Steering Wheel Collar, and Kick Plate:

30,000+ Song Jukebox/Karaoke Machine:
These are pictures of the first Jukebox I made. This one stands almost 6 feet tall. It uses SK Jukebox as the interface, runs Windows XP, has all the same buttons as the smaller Jukebox above, but this Jukebox has it's own amplifier, 2 Bose bookshelf speakers above the monitor, and 2-12" MTX Subwoofers in an Isobaric enclosure on the bottom. This one also has 2 Blue neon lights, as well as a plasma light in the center. There is a volume knob on the top of the unit, and there is a speaker selector on top as well that lets me pipe music from the jukebox, which is in the basement, throughout the whole hose, as well as outside onto the patio. This unit was made to resemble my Arcade Cabinet. Since they were both going to be in the basement, I thought it would be nice if they looked alike. This unit has a 400 Gig hard drive and contains well over 30,000 songs. At an average of three minutes per song, that works out to 62.5 days of music. The SK Jukebox software lets you arrange your music by Genre if you want to. That way, you can select, say the Blues genre, hit the Random button and it will randomly pick songs from your Blues collection for as long as you like. This one is a big hit with my 2 kids and all their friends. I also installed a Karaoke program on here, and plugged a Microphone into it, so they can also sing along to their favorite songs. That is a big hit when the kids have a sleep over.

The Bartop Jukebox!

This Jukebox is made to set on top of a counter or bar. It is covered in Black Vinyl and uses SK Jukebox as the Jukebox interface.

Just Like The Old Days, Only Better! It has a rounded top just like the old Rock-Ola's have. It has a power button and RCA outputs on the back of the Jukebox that enable you to hook it up to your home theater system and play your music collection through your home stereo speakers if you want to.

It has 2 Blue Neon lights on either side of the keypad with a switch on the back to turn them on or off.

Hours Of Fun! You can put it in Random Play mode for hours of uninterrupted music or enter the number of the albums and songs that you want to hear, just like a real jukebox.

All The Artwork! The bottom 2 buttons let you flip pages on the screen. There are also buttons to go to the Next song you have in the que, Pause the current song, and Clear the song que.

Inside the jukebox is a pair of speakers and a subwoofer.

Expandable! There are also 2 USB ports on top of the Keypad, so you can plug a Keyboard & Mouse into it and use it like a regular computer. Or you could plug an external Hard Drive or USB Thumb Drive into it to load it with more music.

Internet Access! You can also plug a Cable ot DSL modem into the jukebox to surf the internet, check E-Mail or do anything else you would do with a regular computer. You can also hook it up to your home network and listen to your jukebox from any computer on your network.

This unit is for sale for $995 if you are interested in it. You can pick it up in Jackson, Michigan only. It's too heavy to ship.