Project Arcade

dalehitchy1 · 26 Sep 2015 at 20:12

Redoing post as apparently images were to big.

Building an arcade machine from a raspberry pi. No the above image is not mispelt. Building it for my nieces and nephews whos surname is Sharp. ** Removed **

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So I got my parts a few weeks ago. I have the raspberry pi 2 board which is about £30. Got a 32gb memory card which should hold a nice about of games.

Buttons and Stick ordered from Ultracabs. Comes with a USB control board. Easily connects to the pi. Buttons also light up.

Wired it up... works well

dalehitchy1 · 26 Sep 2015 at 20:15

Here is the plan i took from the link in the picture

dalehitchy1 · 26 Sep 2015 at 20:16

Speakers I will be putting in.

dalehitchy1 · 26 Sep 2015 at 20:19

Not sure what design I wanted. I was originally going for a mario and luigi theme.... hence the red and green, but my little nephew loves spiderman so i then changed my mind to a comic book theme.

ive ordered some cool posters to paste on there.

dalehitchy1 · 26 Sep 2015 at 20:20

Started cutting the wood yesterday.

Dunno why the picture rotates its not like that on my dropbo

dalehitchy1 · 26 Sep 2015 at 20:29

Here is the bootup vid i originally made. I decided to stick with the marvel comic book theme.

I am not a pro with after effects but there are some awesome tutorials online so thats how i did the first bit. The second bit i knocked up quickly in Sony Vegas

Boot up takes around 30 seconds anyway so this works well.

dalehitchy1 · 26 Sep 2015 at 20:31

Eventually changed the second part of boot up video. I didnt like the quality of it compared to the first bit. Also my partner wanted his name in there as he is helping (a little).

Found another nice tutorial on youtube and amended it to my needs

dalehitchy1 · 26 Sep 2015 at 20:34

So this is as far as I have got now.....

Continuing piecing it together tomorrow. Some of the wood pieces were not correct on that drawing to ive had to recut / sand down some pieces.

Some of the issues come from the MDF wood only being 18mm thick. I think a lot of other countries normally have slight thicker wood such as 20mm... but most timber merchants in the UK seem to only stock up to 18mm.

dalehitchy1 · 26 Sep 2015 at 22:18

colinmcr said:
Are you going to paint the exterior or put some nice shiny vinyl type stuff on it?

I was going to but I wanted a design and found someone online who just pasted a door poster on which still looked decent. I will be spraying it and pasting that poster on

dalehitchy1 · 27 Sep 2015 at 17:57

Majority of it is built now. I havnt attached the montitor piece yet as i dont know which one to get (something cheap i hope). Then i can measure the thickness to get the glass lying exactly on top of it.

dalehitchy1 · 3 Oct 2015 at 15:28

Marquee arrived today. Also bought some spray paint to spray on the inside.

dalehitchy1 · 4 Oct 2015 at 22:20

im wondering weather to switch to a PC build instead of a raspberry pi. People keep telling me to switch to PC as the software is a lot more customisable, runs better and MAME is much more compatible.

Im not sure what to do, as the Raspberry Pi OS is very smooth, as more importantly, easy for Kids to Navigate.

Anyway, I went to the car boot sale undecided and scouted for a PC just in case. Im now the proud owner of a Core 2 duo pc with 4gb ram for £10! Didnt come with hard drive, but Sister had 2 broken laptops so i nabbed the hard drive out of them... also got a monitor for £5...what a day... so happy

I get a real satisfaction on making something usable again that people find junk.

One question about laptop screens....... it seems a waste to throw a working laptop screen away. I have no idea what this connection is but there must be some of of convertor to HDMI, DVI or VGA. whats the connection called and can i connect it to something else?

dalehitchy1 · 25 Oct 2015 at 00:41

So my perspex arrived...

i measured too big but i cant be bothered to recut as this project is taking over my life and house. its costing a little more than anticipated too because of the tools i needed.

i have no idea why this is rotated and displayed in this way... its not like that on my dropbox -_-

bezel sprayed on

control board

the bit at the back of that board wont be seen... the perspex for the screen will hit right after the perspex on the control board ends

dalehitchy1 · 31 Oct 2015 at 20:20

well i broke my phone... so i cant take many good pictures... but im done
will try and take some vids of it running tomorrow

dalehitchy1 · 1 Nov 2015 at 17:36

Thanks, here is some vids of it running

System Tour

Boot-up

2 player Marvel Vs Capcom

Other games - Pacman, Sonic, Golden Axe

dalehitchy1 · 1 Nov 2015 at 22:07

GSXRMovistar said:
Very nice. Quick question, where did you get your vinyl printed?

I've just finished off a cocktail (kinda) cabinet and now starting a bartop which I want some custom graphics printed for.

i used a door poster off amazon... this one in particlar
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Door-Poster...1446415610&sr=8-2&keywords=marvel+door+poster

i just used some adhesive spray glue it on

dalehitchy1 · 18 Nov 2015 at 07:49

tonyt3rry said:
amazing build love the marvel intro. could you tell me what theme you are using on retropie please love the black on red

I'll have a look later but its one you can choose from (its prr installed) on the new os. Think its on 3.2 now.