Monday, May 31, 2010

Rock-Ola






So along with the new direction of The Boss Box comes along a Rock-Ola wall box.
A wall mounted jukebox that I was able to pick up for FREE! (Thanks to Nick V over @ CGCC) Not much online about these with respects to modification, however I've decided that mine will play host to an LCD monitor. Uncle T's software has the ability to support dual monitors. So my intention is to set this up somewhere in the basement in a different location then the jukebox itself. It would be used for the sole purpose of playing the videos.

I've got the machine completely broken down as of now. I've painted the back in a Hi-Gloss black and I've began to polish the chrome using Mothers Chrome Polish.
It's coming together pretty well.

The Concept


Over at the Build Your Own Arcade Controls forum I saw this awesome jukebox built by dmworking247. His thread can be found here : http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=99666.0

Right when I saw this I knew I wanted to emulate this for my jukebox.
My jukebox however will have a 17" ELO CRT based touchscreen. So the unit itself
will be somewhat larger. I plan on decasing the PC and trying to reduce it's size as much as I can. The hard drive will remain external and contain all the music as well as videos. The plus with respects to that is I can take it with me anywhere.

Vintage Stereo




The original idea for The Boss Box was to contain everything in a vintage console stereo. I found one for FREE on Kijiji and just paid $10 to have it delivered.
My bad, because I never got the measurements. In the end my 17" ELO monitor would not fit. At this point (on paper) the Jukebox took on many forms. In the end I decided something small (as small as I could make it while housing all the parts) would be the best idea.