Touchscreen Kiosk

I picked up a touchscreen Kiosk to play around with.

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I bought a touchscreen kiosk to play around with. It has a 17" CRT touchscreen monitor inside, and I got another monitor as well. The cabinet is a Pearlson Development Corporation model S330.

Some features of the cabinet are front and back doors, a sliding shelf, 3 cooling fans and internal power strip.

After cleaning it up, I tossed in a Megatouch XL motherboard, CD drive and power supply. All I had to do was plug them into the touchscreen and the power strip, and the setup worked right away. The monitor I put in is a bit dim, and won't display a full image. The picture starts to break up on the bottom if adjusted to full size, so I've got it about an inch and a half from the top and bottom. Even with the screen issue, the Megatouch software drivers work fine with the monitor and the game is fully playable. The other monitor I got has a better picture.

It should be just as easy to turn this into a touchscreen jukebox. All I need to do is put a PC in the cabinet with one of the available touchscreen jukebox programs. Then add a spare receiver and some speakers I have lying around. If I decide to make the final product a jukebox, I may take off the front door and redesign it to house the speakers.
I then tossed in a computer and some speakers. I installed a touchscreen jukebox program and tried it out.

I replaced all but 4 capacitors on the monitor chassis and neckboard (because I ordered 4 of the wrong ones). The total number of capacitors replaced is over 70! This made the monitor better, but still not perfect. It's a 17" CRT VGA monitor with an ELO touchscreen.

Here's the touchscreen jukebox program running in 800x600 resolution.

After all that work on the 17" monitor, I still wasn't happy with the picture. For a birthday present to myself I bought a used 19" LCD touchscreen.

The image quality is far superior to the 17" CRT. As you can see in the picture, the monitor is bright enough to show up well even with the room lights and camera flash. The added size of the monitor really makes this cabinet even more fun to use.

I've modified the small block off plate that was to the left of the monitor. It was originally for some kind of card reader. I installed a 'SPIN REELS' button for the slot machine games on the PC, and below it are a black and red button that control the sound volume in Windows. The buttons are all hooked up to an Ultimarc I-Pac keyboard emulator, and the volume buttons work with a program called Volume Tray to control the volume.
I removed the wood box that was attached to the door to hold pamphlets or some such material. This leaves me with a 4" x 12" hole in the door. It has the added benefit of giving me another couple inches of room for the PC to fit inside.
Here's the hole in the door from the front. You can see the bass speaker behind it pointing out. Now I need to find some way of covering the hole with speaker cloth or metal.

I made my final decision on what to do for speakers. I mounted some slot machine speaker 'ears' on both sides of the kiosk hood. I also have the original PC speakers hooked up as well. I moved them from the sides of the cabinet to the top of the hood, pointing backwards.

This solution doesn't have the volume or quality of a real stereo with high end speakers, but it gets plenty loud and sounds just fine to me. I was able to use parts I had on hand, and didn't have to buy an external amp or car stereo speakers like I was planning.