{"id":59,"date":"2022-02-13T13:48:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T13:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/?p=59"},"modified":"2022-02-13T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T13:48:36","slug":"dr-actions-distraction-contraption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Action&#8217;s Distraction Contraption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Distraction Contraption is a custom arcade machine I designed and made in 2011 as a gift to myself. It was built around an old computer using laser-cut MDF, acrylic, LEGO gears, and roadside electronics. I was inspired by a smaller arcade machine from Sam Seide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was built with a small-form-factor PC, custom designed graphics and UI, spinners for Pong and Arkanoid, some secret horn taunting action, and authentic vintage controls I rescued from a ditch by the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also wrote a couple instructables around it, one of which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Make-a-Better-Looking-Arcade-Machine-on-a-Budget\/\">featured<\/a>. The project made the blog rounds when it came out, which was neat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Distraction Contraption is a custom arcade machine I designed and made in 2011 as a gift to myself. It was built around an old computer using laser-cut MDF, acrylic, LEGO gears, and roadside electronics. I was inspired by a smaller arcade machine from Sam Seide. It was built with a small-form-factor PC, custom designed<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/?p=59\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr. Action&#8217;s Distraction Contraption&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,16],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","tag-arcade","tag-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ThreeQuarterFixed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}