Hello,
I am a quite tech-savvy idiot which finally have gotten to the stage in my life where I can build my own machine. I am quite new to the retro-scene and especially new to arcades in general, so I am sure I’ll have tons of questions as this progress. I am heavily inspired by
Flynn’s arcade and
Paradox arcades.
Right now, I am looking for the buttons, joysticks etc. to use, and wondering from you seasoned veterans what is “optimal”. For controls I am consdeering to buy:
- 1x ServoStik
- 3x J-Stik Ball-Top
- 1x U-TRAK FlushMount Arcade Trackball
- 2x I-PAC Ultimate I/O
From ultimarc. + Spinner when they get it in store.
The buttons, I want whatever looks similar to Flynn and paradox arcades and I’ve found these buttons:
https://www.focusattack.com/il-psl-l-translucent-concave-long-stem-pushbutton-clear /
https://paradisearcadeshop.com/il-psl-l-transparent/275-il-psl-white-translucent-concave-pushbutton-.htmlwhich I think are the same as he uses over at paradoxarcades, but if I am wrong please correct me
When it comes to the RGB-leds inside the buttons I struggle to find any place which sells them for IL buttons; I found these ones, but they are always out of stock:
https://paradisearcadeshop.com/button-leds/100-il-lumination-rgb-5vdc-led-.htmlDoes anyone know where I can get those? Or anything equivalent?
I’ve just started playing with the idea and created a rotating plate for my monitor using a simple cheap servo mounted to a car-ball bearer, powered by an Arduino.
I will build a cab inspired/heavily stolen from Flynn probably, with rotating monitor, but otherwise similar. For software, I am going to go with Hyperspin, eds and maybe integrate it in some sort of dev environment as a ESB. As a software engineer by trade, this is the part I dread the least and will open source all code I write.
Having just achieved my most important milestone (Spousal approval), I am really looking forward to start building.