Not really an announcement as the project is more or less completed, but here's mine:
My daughter and I did this one in 2017 -- she was starting shop class and was nervous about it as her best friend fed her hand into a band saw in shop class the prior year (no permanent damage luckily!), so this was my excuse to build a cabinet and get my daughter a basic knowledge of power tools.
Details:
- Cab build with 1/2" plywood and #2064 smoked 1/8" plexi
- 22" westinghouse LED TV. Does not power on automatically so I rigged up an old USB-UIRT with a batch script to power this on when windows starts
- PC hardware: AMD A-series CPU, supporting motherboard PSU and ram. Onboard graphics
- GPWiz-40 controller from GroovyGameGear -- the wiring kit was the best money I spent on this build
- Omni-2 joysticks and Arcade PRIME buttons with soft-touch microswitches, also from GGG
- single slot coin door from x-arcade
- frontend: Maximus Arcade
I'll see if I can find any in-progress pics if there is interest, but this is the finished product. We're currently redoing the control panel -- adding a spinner and 2 trackballs -- Marble Madness baby!