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A Teacher in a search for answers
markrvp:
The Ultimarc I-pac works GREAT.
Lilwolf:
Going on the cheap cheap... consider buying a pre-hacked mouse form Oscar... 12 bucks and your good to go.
For a lot of items.. .Also look at www.therealbobroberts.com. Hes great and sells items for cheaper then anywhere else. He usually has great prices on joysticks and buttons (and everything else really)
I personally wouldn't buy a video card for 50 bucks. You can get older but great ATI cards on ebay for 5-10 bucks that will do fine. And if you want to spend some real money... look at getting a arcadeVGA... (they do SVID right?) for 90 bucks.. and get a 19" arcade CRT from ebay new for 150+45 shipping or so. Should end up less then what your looking at and will have better output (and work with standard parts like bezels.)
evlbeaver:
You didn't mention age/number of kids but be careful if you go the arcade monitor and ArcadeVGA route. Hi voltage and kids are not a good mix.
RetroJames:
If on the cheap, i would go with a straight pc to pc monitor setup. You can get an encoder for around $25.00, maybe any extra could be used to update the pc.
Fat_Trucker:
Buy a copy of project arcade and get them hacking their own gear. It will be an excellent group learning experience for them and they will really feel they have 'made' the machine rather than just put it together.
Also optical and keyboard hacks are really very interesting and will teach them how the different components in a PC (and arcade machine) actually work.
Perhaps you could challenge them to build the machine purely from things they can bring from home. Make it a really creative learning experience. Maybe even invite their English teacher to help out too?.