{"id":394,"date":"2008-10-04T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T17:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/?p=394"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:07:08","slug":"the-tron-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2008\/10\/04\/the-tron-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tron panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imagelink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_0918.jpg\" title=\"The Tron panel\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_0918-450.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Tron panel\" width=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-395\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As can be derived from its name, this panel is mainly used for Tron.  But it is also a functioning Discs of Tron panel as well.  The spinner on the left is actually an original spinner from a Discs of Tron machine (ebay!).  That was a semi-expensive purchase, actually.  It cost me over $100 for that spinner.  This panel also works well for games that had a flight-stick kind of control &#8212; like Zaxxon.<\/p>\n<p>The trigger stick is actually a cheap PC joystick that I hacked the bottom off of and mounted onto an arcade joystick base.  A big debt of thanks goes to my friend Bob who hollowed out a solid metal shaft from an arcade joystick in order to fish the wires for the switches down through the stick.<\/p>\n<p>The button array in the middle is intended to allow playing of other spinner games like Tempest, Arkanoid, Star Trek, etc.  But it turns out that a Discs of Tron spinner is just a bit too weighty for quick action games like Tempest.  I hope to be able to build a dedicated spinner panel at some point in the future for games like Tempest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As can be derived from its name, this panel is mainly used for Tron. But it is also a functioning Discs of Tron panel as well. The spinner on the left is actually an original spinner from a Discs of Tron machine (ebay!). That was a semi-expensive purchase, actually. It cost me over $100 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-frinkiac7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}