dirk&dirk - Raiden Project

Raiden has a new home

admin — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:36:45 +0000

Raiden has moved to Game Traders in Carillon City Arcade, go there, play it, win $

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:42:03 +0000

DONE!

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:03:14 +0000

It’s finally done! It’s all working marquee inside, better speakers, paying out properly. This is a good feeling!

Coming soon: Properly writen instructions to build your own. (and photos/video of the final product!)

hooray!

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:17:55 +0000

my enthusiasm has returned! i made a badass marquee, got it printed at office works only to realise just around the time that office works shuts that they scaled it, when i said it can’t be scaled, but i’m not letting it frustrate me, i said the f and c words a few times now im fine! heres a picture of the marquee

fuck

admin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:17:36 +0000

fuck i hate this fucking project

Windows XP Auto-login

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:18:31 +0000

The tweakui autologin wasn’t working properly, it would autologin once, but after that i’d be prompted for the password again, so I’m making the change in the registry, the method is outlined here but since microsoft are always changing the way their website is laid out ill paste it in below:

You can use Registry Editor to add your log on information. To do this, follow these steps:

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
Locate the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Using your account name and password, double-click the DefaultUserName entry, type your user name, and then click OK.
Double-click the DefaultPassword entry, type your password under the value data box, and then click OK.
If there is no DefaultPassword value, create the value. To do this, follow these steps:
1. In Registry Editor, click Edit, click New, and then click String Value.
2. Type DefaultPassword as the value name, and then press ENTER.
3. Double-click the newly created key, and then type your password in the Value Data box.
If no DefaultPassword string is specified, Windows XP automatically changes the value of the AutoAdminLogon registry key from 1 (true) to 0 (false) to turn off the AutoAdminLogon feature.
Double-click the AutoAdminLogon entry, type 1 in the Value Data box, and then click OK.
If there is no AutoAdminLogon entry, create the entry. To do this, follow these steps:
1. In Registry Editor, click Edit, click New, and then click String Value.
2. Type AutoAdminLogon as the value name, and then press ENTER.
3. Double-click the newly created key, and then type 1 in the Value Data box.
Quit Registry Editor.
Click Start, click Restart, and then click OK.

After your computer restarts and Windows XP starts, you can log on automatically.

Coming up: BIOS Hacking!! Do I dare?

Making the monitor switch on when you power the machine

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:37:04 +0000

I needed to have the monitor switch on as soon as power is fed to the machine, before this mod I’d have to press the button to switch on the monitor after switching on the power, not very practical.

I don’t know if the monitor stores charge like a CRT does, doing this may be dangerous!

It’s a Benq FP91G+

Unscrew the screws, all of them are uncovered except two which are covered by some rubber stuff that just comes off. The circled bit is the circuit board with the buttons, the power button is on the right side of the board.

Theres all the buttons!

That’s the button

Those top two solder joint connect the on switch, so I’m just gunna solder them together to bypass the switch.

Connect them up, put it back together and it works sweet!

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:43:30 +0000

Got some spare time so I’m gunna put in some work. The activation on the machine i was using fucked up the whole thing and i couldn’t activate or start the computer, so i got all the files off it and am reinstalling windows, this means i have to go through all that crap of suppressing windows, good thing i wrote it all down here!

Things left to do:

Hook up the light in the marquee part
Design and get marquee printed
Get a little hood for where the cash comes out
Fix pc in place inside the machine
Sound, get amplifier
Figure out what to do with the monitor

beta

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:37:32 +0000

[See post to watch Flash video]

discharging your monitor, australian lowboy

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:54:32 +0000

Uh oh! AC! For this little task I called in my more “big electrical” minded brother since i was too pussy to do it myself. The basic idea is to hook up a cord to an insulated screw driver, hook the cord to the metal frame of the machine, stick the screw driver up in to the anode and discharge all that pent up teen angst from the capacitors inside the monitor. Apparently you should hear anything from a little crackle to a loud noise & blue flash, we heard a little crackle which was nice.

All the videos and tutorials on the internet seem to be for American models which have a big metal frame around the monitor which you ground the screwdriver cord to, the low boys don’t seem to do it this way so we hooked it up to some metal part near the main video pcb, see pictures below.

Be careful and make sure you read up a LOT of information before you do this so you don’t kill yourself!