Building An Arcade Cabinet With Raspberry Pi

Build your own mini arcade cabinet with raspberry pi step 1.

Building an arcade cabinet with raspberry pi.

If you are like me and it takes a while to get parts online i recommend you order them first so. How i built the. I started with a proof of concept shown above. The porta pi mini arcade is a desktop sized fully functional mini arcade cabinet measuring just under 13 x 9 x 10 inches hxwxd.

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. Story and build here is a project i did a while ago. This porta pi arcade turns your raspberry pi in a mini arcade machine. An arcade cabinet is much easier to make than you might expect.

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. 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. Download the bom to see what items are needed to build this mini arcade. I made this from 1 2.

Build your own mini arcade cabinet with raspberry pi. A home built bartop arcade cabinet powered by a raspberry 2b running retropie. Start with an idea and test it out. The chassis power plug with fuse and switch was pre cut in my kit.

I chose this so i. It s essentially a fancy cupboard that holds a monitor speakers a computer a keyboard and some buttons. Full size arcade cabinet using raspberry pi step 1. Cheap chinese usb controllers all usb controllers will work with your arcade even if it does not mention linux.