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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Dr. Frankenstein's Monster Arcade Machine

Obviously in love with the steampunk aesthetic, Doug Haffner spent 60-80 hours building this MAME arcade cabinet, shaping the wood with a CarveWright carving machine and decorating the side panels with green lithopanes of Frankenstein's monster and the creature's bride.

Haffner made turning on the machine just as interesting as its design -- the power switch is hidden in a fake book of Dr. Frankenstein's lab notes, which is mounted inside a door on the bottom of the cabinet. The builder explains, "I didn't want children toggling the power to the computer on and off."

[Via Technabob]

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