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TV Size comparison and mounting

April 14, 2009

As the TV was delivered today, i compared it with my real Pinball:

pinball-with-tv

I had an idea how to mount the tv: I will insert some screws in the back of the TV. Then i can lay the tv down on a board with 4 holes in it. The whole tv is relatively flat at the back, so that it will rest relatively stable on the back.

Sorry… pictures from my cell phone.

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Where to put the screens

April 12, 2009

I just made a little image where to put the screens inside the table.

ramvik_and_screens

I think i will put the board which stabilises the table between the DMD and the TV. With some holes in it for airflow.

Also it shows that to be authentic (a normal DMD is about 60% of the width of a pinball table) the DMD should have a width of approx. 24 cm. For a width of 23 cm i would need a 10.4 Inch display. Although i could not display the backdrop… I will think about this.

Sorry for people thinking in Inches… the metric system…

Quarterpounder <-> Hamburger Royal :-)

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Inside the Ramvik table

April 10, 2009

Would it be possible to build such a large TV (32 Inch or 37 Inch) into a Ramvik table?

This Picture i found at http://www.ikeafans.com/forums/ikea-instructions/9429-ramvik-coffee-table-instructions-annotated.html?setorder=1

Let’s look at this picture: The table has a board inside, which stabilizes the table exactly at the position i wanted to build the TV-monitor in.  In addition it has Drawers, which i could not use because i need the place for the TV. To stabilise the table without the board in the middle i could mount the fronts of the drawers to the sides (since i don’t need them) with some corner brackets and leave the board in the middle out. Good…

The size of the Table (according to the IKEA Website) is:

Length: 120 cm
Width: 58 cm
Height: 40 cm

Assuming the wood is 2 cm thick, The glass would have a surface of 116 cm x 54 cm. I confirmed this approximation at my local IKEA this week, but lost the paper i wrote the exact measures :-) .

So let’s look what TV i could build inside this piece.

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Ramvik!

April 10, 2009

… so i searched the internet for a good coffeetable for my Project.

It should have the following features:

  • glass on top of a case which is big enough to hold a TV screen bigger than 25 Inch
  • cheap
  • nice looking
  • a little bit durable

To follow the needs that it has to be cheap and nice looking, i looked at the coffeetables at IKEA and immediately found a Table which was perfect for my Project for approximately 100€: The RAMVIK

OK, this looks good. Plenty of place for a TV – maybe for 37 inch?

That was so exactly the table i was looking for, that maybe other would have done the same with a Ramvik table. So i googled… and laughed out loud:

I found two projects:

1. Ramvik Media Table (http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2008/08/ramvik-tv-and-music-console.html)

and 2. Ramvik Mame Book (http://mamebook.blogspot.com/)

OK, i’m not the first person who builds a monitor  into a Ramvik table, but nobody has built a Virtual Pinball off a Ramvik table before. In Addition my screen should be MUCH BIGGER!!! :-o

Let’s see if i can make it!

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