Start with an idea and test it out.
Building an arcade cabinet with raspberry pi.
An arcade cabinet is much easier to make than you might expect.
You can make your own cabinet using not much more than a couple of sheets of mdf some clear plastic and a few cans of spray paint.
The porta pi mini arcade is a desktop sized fully functional mini arcade cabinet measuring just under 13 x 9 x 10 inches hxwxd.
I started with a proof of concept shown above.
I chose this so i.
How i built the.
After seeing some videos and reading some articles about people using a raspberry pi to play retro games i decided to build my own custom fullsize bartop arcade cabinet.
Story and build here is a project i did a while ago.
The chassis power plug with fuse and switch was pre cut in my kit.
I designed my cabinet around the interior dimensions of 600 mm x 600 mm.
It s essentially a fancy cupboard that holds a monitor speakers a computer a keyboard and some buttons.
Cheap chinese usb controllers all usb controllers will work with your arcade even if it does not mention linux.
A home built bartop arcade cabinet powered by a raspberry 2b running retropie.
Of course you could stuff any other retro console inside but the rpi is so versatile powerful and awesome that i stuck with it to build this mini arcade.
Build a bartop arcade cabinet using raspberry pi mount chassis power switch connector power brick.
Download the bom to see what items are needed to build this mini arcade.
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This porta pi arcade turns your raspberry pi in a mini arcade machine.
Build your own mini arcade cabinet with raspberry pi step 1.
Build your own mini arcade cabinet with raspberry pi.
