Arcade Punk reader, Didds, shares with us what can only be described as a ‘spur-of-the-moment’ build, and what a great looking UNIQUE machine this is! All you need is a spare monitor, which he had laying around, and an old PC or in his case, Pi and of course a pallet.
After Didds built the cabinet using some quality tools, buttons and workmanship the left to do was install the Raspberry Pi 3 into the cabinet and hook it up to the screen and the controller.
The Raspberry Pi 3 is tiny so there is no problem in fitting it inside.
The next issue I ran in too was because I wanted to keep the pallet arcade as authentic as possible I used a 4:3 monitor and not a widescreen. These older 4:3 monitors do not have HDMI ports so I needed to use a HDMI to VGA Converter to convert the HDMI out on the Raspberry Pi 3 to VGA for the monitor.
You can still buy 4:3 monitors brand new but my advice is to look on eBay or Facebook buy and sell pages for an old one. You could use a widescreen monitor but these retro games do not look so great on those if you ask me.
The Joystick and buttons were simple to setup and pretty much plug n play with USB direct in to the Raspberry Pi.
The speaker setup was simple too with an RCA to 3.5mm jack plug from the monitor to the Raspberry Pi. – Didds
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