Just a few pics of a build I did as a gift for someone a few years back, this was a really fun project and I'd love to do a full size cabinet with a mini pc one day.
The build consisted of:
Stereo amp and speakers
Raspberry pi 3, running retropie, with roms on an old portable hard drive
USB hub
Marquee backlit with white LED strip
19" 4:3 panel harvested from an old monitor.
Joysticks, illuminated buttons, and USB controller interface from Amazon
Front USB sockets for additional controllers/keyboard/thumbdrive etc.
For the cabinet I used plans purchased from Ebay and then cut/routed the panels from MDF.
(If I did this again I'd purchase the panels premade, the cost of tooling up, with the plans and materials on top worked out just as expensive)
Primed and sprayed matt black (using rattle cans)
Vinyls purchased from Ebay (I know the subject matter isn't strictly arcade but the recipient was a huge Mario galaxy fan)
Red T profile from ebay, let into routed rebates.
As I said this build was the most fun I'd had in a long time and I was reluctant hand it over at the end
Thanks for the interest
The build consisted of:
Stereo amp and speakers
Raspberry pi 3, running retropie, with roms on an old portable hard drive
USB hub
Marquee backlit with white LED strip
19" 4:3 panel harvested from an old monitor.
Joysticks, illuminated buttons, and USB controller interface from Amazon
Front USB sockets for additional controllers/keyboard/thumbdrive etc.
For the cabinet I used plans purchased from Ebay and then cut/routed the panels from MDF.
(If I did this again I'd purchase the panels premade, the cost of tooling up, with the plans and materials on top worked out just as expensive)
Primed and sprayed matt black (using rattle cans)
Vinyls purchased from Ebay (I know the subject matter isn't strictly arcade but the recipient was a huge Mario galaxy fan)
Red T profile from ebay, let into routed rebates.
As I said this build was the most fun I'd had in a long time and I was reluctant hand it over at the end
Thanks for the interest
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