I'm actually going to start making an effort to build my Cocktail Cabinet now. I'll start with a quick rundown of the hardware that I'm going to use as the actual build amounts to some rectangle pieces of mdf at the moment.

The pictures are pretty self explanitory, hardware is to be mounted inside the cabinet, possibly on a hacked up motherboard tray. The motherboard is fairly small, which will give me flexibility on where it can be installed. The system uses an atx power supply, so I'm going to have to mount a switch somewhere to turn it on. The monitor that i'm going to use may be a little on the small side, but i'll give it a run and decide if I need to upgrade or not. I might as well, the monitor doesn't get used at the moment.

Controls and Ipac were purchased from Ozstick. The Ipac allows you to wire up the joysticks and buttons with ease, and plugs into the keyboard port.

The cabinet is to be loosely based on a Pacman cocktail cabinet. The cabinet base is 45cm wide and 50cm deep. I've decided to keep the height at around 60cm as it allows me to use smaller pieces of mdf (less cutting required). Original pacman cabinet bottom sections are 65cm high. I originally wanted to build a smaller cabinet, but after measuring the monitor and computer dimensions, It was obvious that this would not be possible.

This is a hard drive chassis from an IBM server, this will house a hard drive and possibly a floppy drive.		The Guts of the Machine, P3 450 with around 300mb of Ram, Old School Voodoo 3 AGP Video
Some of this may make it into the machine :P		15“ Monitor to go into the machine unless i get a better offer.
Side view showing profile. Fairly compact, but nowhere near as compact as newer monitors (eg Philips)		The Sticks, Only going to implement two buttons per player on the cabinet due to space restrictions.
The Jungle. Joystics can be set to 4 way or 8 way. Ipac sorts out the button mashing.		Close up view of the Ipac
Just to give you an idea of scale. 30cm ruler on the base of the cabinet. Base is 50cm x 45cm