Building An Arcade Cabinet With Raspberry Pi

A home built bartop arcade cabinet powered by a raspberry 2b running retropie.

Building an arcade cabinet with raspberry pi.

Full size arcade cabinet using raspberry pi step 1. 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. Start with an idea and test it out. How i built the.

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. This porta pi arcade turns your raspberry pi in a mini arcade machine. I designed my cabinet around the interior dimensions of 600 mm x 600 mm.

Posted in classic hacks games tagged arcade cabinet emulation raspberry pi 4 retro gaming scanline woodworking post navigation porting quake to an ipod classic is no easy task. An arcade cabinet is much easier to make than you might expect. I chose this so i. Build a bartop arcade cabinet using raspberry pi mount chassis power switch connector power brick.

Build your own mini arcade cabinet with raspberry pi. I started with a proof of concept shown above. 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. Build your own mini arcade cabinet with raspberry pi step 1.

Download the bom to see what items are needed to build this mini arcade. I made this from 1 2. If you are like me and it takes a while to get parts online i recommend you order them first so. Story and build here is a project i did a while ago.