Arcade Cabinet build

[Luke]

Building a mini arcade cabinet is probably not what most people use their Pine A64 boards for, but as it turns out the board + LCD are a great basis if you want to build a mini cabinet. I started on this project some 2 months ago and I have finally finished it over the weekend. It is vaguely inspired by Neo Geo cabinets but I took the creative liberty of using a Japanese Sanwa joystick instead of the american type joysticks. I also used buttons with white LEDs rather than multicoloured ones seen on real Neo Geo cabs. I also designed the art for it - so its hardly Neo Geo accurate... 

The inside is a total mess right now - I will tidy it up once I have all the software stuff worked out. 

On the subject of software, the cabinet will eventually run Retroarch on a minimal ubuntu image that pfeerick and I put together earlier this year. Right now the outstanding issue is getting the LCD to work with mali+drm enabled, but everything else works as intended. So as you can see in the picture above, right now its running android. 

I will be bringing it to FOSDEM 18 (granted we get a stall) so if you will be attending make sure to drop by toplay some Metal Slug X or Street Fighter 2. 
I must say I am pretty darn pleased with it Feel free to let me know what you think.

For those who want to see some pictures from the build they can be found here.

[MarkHaysHarris777]

Dude !!

... very impressive , nice work !

[Luke]

Dude !!

... very impressive , nice work !

Thanks!

[Luke]

Since the original post I made a few modifications to the mini arcade (reflected in the picture in first post of this thread). Some were aesthetic, such as I making the front of the arcade much neater by masking off some of my 'crimes', and making the marquee look neat. Others were much more practical, such as adding a volume wheel and buttons to the back, and rewiring the inside of the box. 

I updated the link with pictures to show off some of the recent modifications if any of you want some inspiration for your arcade projects   

I also allowed friends to have a go at it ... 

[edit: no clue what the video is in such a terrible quality .. oh well, you get the gist ] 

[clarkss12]

That is awesome, Luke!!

[Luke]

That is awesome, Luke!!

Cheers, glad you like it

[xoru]

please add potenciometer for tempest https://www.gamespot.com/videos/tempest-...0-6184443/