There’s a lot going on this month.  Our recent Introduction to Electronics/Arcade repair class was a huge success, and we are planning an informal follow-up for club members where we follow-through on some of the repairs, and re-cap the monitors on several games we repaired during the original class.

As a result of the class, we’ve got several classic arcade games operational and available to play in the PinChurch, including Q*bert and Battle Zone!

Our next project involves setting up a state-of-the-art video and audio production workstation! Our group will begin doing video productions of classes and the resources will be made available to core members for personal projects. We’ve already got the hardware and software in place. A super-fast quad-core workstation with oodles of memory and drive space, and the latest fully-licensed version of Adobe CS6, Premier, Photoshop, Illustrator, and everything needed to crank out professional work!

We will immediately begin having informal gatherings as we teach ourselves the basics of video editing with Adobe Premier. We will soon be having some formal classes but in the interim having fun with footage and practicing editing and related processes.

We are also setting up a full-blown Pro Tools rig. Stay tuned for more!

On any given day we are also engaging in a wide variety of repair/maker projects from repairing pinball and arcade machines, to fabricating parts, building out the workspaces and more. There’s always something fun and informative going on!

Also, we will be running another IFPA-sanctioned pinball tournament, this time at the public venue, Barcadia on Tchopatoulas in downtown New Orleans on July 27th.

If you’d like to participate in any of our projects, contact us or consider becoming a member.

UPDATE: A new class will be scheduled soon – the content below refers to a previous class which has already been conducted.  For more info, contact us under the “About” link in the menu.

Wednesday, June 19 – 7pm at the PinChurch

Video Game Repair & Basic Electronics Class

This is slated to be a small, intimate class mostly with members of the Mystic Krewe.  Non-members can attend with a $40 donation to the club.

This class has no prerequisites.  Knowledge of video game repair or basic electronics is not required.

We will take you through the entire process of examining arcade games and show you common elements of them, how they work, what often goes wrong, how to diagnose and solve common issues and where to go for more assistance if you get stuck.

Even if you are not interested in repairing arcade video games, this class will show you basics of electronics and general repair and diagnosis of electronic systems.  With this knowledge you can understand and be capable of repairing a wide variety of electronic devices.

Video arcade games make excellent example platforms to demonstrate basic electronic repair.

The head instructor, Lewis D’aubin has decades of experience repairing and restoring not just video, arcade and pinball machines, but computer equipment and an enormous variety of other devices.  He will share his wisdom with us and walk us through examining and repairing a number of common issues that affect electronic equipment, such as how to rebuild power supplies and how to re-cap a monitor.

For more information email mike /at domain/ mystickrewe.com.

Interested non-MK-member participants who want to attend this class use the form below to pre-register and offer your donation:

Class Registration

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