Hi All,
Some time ago after years of thinking about doing it I have finally built my first MAME arcade cabinet (image below). The idea was to keep is as slim as possible as houses on average here in UK are rather small and finding space (and getting approval from my wife) for full size cabinet would be difficult. One below was 35cm D x 58cm W x 180cm H.
With looks I was going for Scandinavian furniture style so there is only white, black and natural wood colour. Originally black elements were only painted black but later I decided to vinyl wrap them in "carbon fibre".
I have recently sold this cabinet to fund my current project. Below CGI showing what I'm aiming for with the new one. This one will be powered by Hyperspin (as opposed to RetroPie in the old one) and will have LCD marquee display to be used with HyperMarquee.
In terms of hardware I will be using 20" DELL 2007fpb (IPS) 4:3 ratio for display (i have removed CCFL tubes and replaced them with LED strips to reduce power usage and reduce heat ouptut), 2x USB controllers, Intel i5 PC to run it all and hopefully LEDBlinky to light my buttons. For LEDBlinky I was planning to use NanoLED + WS2811 LED strip although NanoLED proves difficult to get hold of and may not meet my expectations (~16buttons with RGB lighting) so any advice is welcome.
This new project if actually fairly well progressed. Some images below.