Building An Arcade Cabinet With Raspberry Pi

The porta pi mini arcade is a desktop sized fully functional mini arcade cabinet measuring just under 13 x 9 x 10 inches hxwxd.

Building an arcade cabinet with raspberry pi.

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. Full size arcade cabinet using raspberry pi step 1. The chassis power plug with fuse and switch was pre cut in my kit. I made this from 1 2.

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. 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. An arcade cabinet is much easier to make than you might expect.

Build your own mini 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. 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.

It s essentially a fancy cupboard that holds a monitor speakers a computer a keyboard and some buttons. Download the bom to see what items are needed to build this mini arcade. I started with a proof of concept shown above. How i built the.

I designed my cabinet around the interior dimensions of 600 mm x 600 mm. Build your own mini arcade cabinet with raspberry pi step 1. I chose this so i. Build a bartop arcade cabinet using raspberry pi mount chassis power switch connector power brick.