May 14, 2007

Nokes had another appointment at the vet today. Tonight he was uncharacteristically wild, and we had a hard time trimming his toenails again. Sarah had even taken him out for a walk and that didn’t seem to help. He understands what is going on when he sees the leash and gets really excited. I don’t enjoy the walks right now because he does go all over the place and is constantly stopping to smell. We are going to be enrolling him in some sort of obedience school very soon.

But the …

Ms. Pac-man Marquee Light Working.

Kenny was over this weekend, and he took a look at my connection behind my Ms. Pac-man marquee. He changed out the starter with the one that was in the Pengo, as well as the bulb, and found that both the Pengo starter and bulb worked fine.

So looked back at the light fixture and figured out that it was just that the connection needed a little push and on the marquee came! Exciting to have that lit up.

Unfortunately, I now realize why the operator in Ohio was selling this marquee. Although …

Only arms left on Agent X robots

Worked over the weekend on the Agent X artwork. I got the antenna done, the rest of the arms, the remaining shapes on the base and the outline shape of the robot, so for all intensive purposes he could be finished. But frustrating enough, I was looking at the hi-res photos that were sent to me, and some small details got dropped in the arms and the green section on the robot from the original image I was working from. I already retraced the green area and transferred

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Finally got an Atari Audio II Board

Months just creep by. Today I finally met up with a contact from Kentucky who wanted the monitor tube I took out of the Robotron to Pacland conversion and in exchange gave me an Atari Audio II Board. It needs a resistor soldered on, the typical one I guess that got overworked in Pole Positions in particular. That should be an easy fix, and in theory, again, I think I have all that I need minus that little connector for the coin door. We’ll see if

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May 11th, 2007

I finally made it back to the garage for a short period of time.

Went up in the attic and think I found a piece of composite board that I can use for the spacing on the backside of the control panel. I also installed the PCB holding brackets and secured that inside the cabinet.

It sounds like Tuesday I may be getting that piece of wood cut out at a friend’s house. I have the sander for the panel, so that would leave very little left to getting that done and …

Ice Cream Sprinkles are difficult to do

Punched out a few more of the shapes tonight for the yellow sprinkles and orange dots. It is pretty tedious, and involves me sometimes redrawing the shapes for cropping in Illustrator, so when I finish it, I finish it.

May 10, 2007

Tonight we heard something strange. Nokes was outside when the neighbor dog two houses down came out. He did a very deep bark, something we hadn’t heard before. We have only heard the cute little bark that makes you smile / laugh. This made us look at him again to make sure he wasn’t a full grown dog.