The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: Anderss on May 26, 2015, 02:24:51 pm
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Hi,
Welcome to my project called "The Timemachine", in danish "Tidsmaskinen".
This is my first project and i have decided to go for a bartop with a raspberry pi 2.
Setting up the RPI2 - i have absolutely no clue what i am doing :laugh:
(http://i60.tinypic.com/2n8y00k.jpg)
Start making a temporary control panel for proof of concept
(http://i58.tinypic.com/2zzj9tg.jpg)
assembling buttons
(http://i58.tinypic.com/a0fbph.jpg)
wirering
(http://i61.tinypic.com/nov5fo.jpg)
Tadaaaa - Doesent work with retropie
(http://i62.tinypic.com/x54ilk.jpg)
NVM - starting wood work
(http://i62.tinypic.com/ogjr4x.jpg)
Finishing woodwork and plexi cutting
(http://i61.tinypic.com/et5opg.jpg)
The final result of a days work in the woodshop
(http://i59.tinypic.com/1exn45.jpg)
Started sanding and filling cracks
(http://i58.tinypic.com/119mplh.jpg)
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Looks great so far. :applaud:
I'm curious about the RPI2, what is the newest machine it can play full speed? What frontend are you planning on running? Are there weird considerations with the control's wiring?
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Any of this R-pi stuff help?
http://www.banggood.com/Wholesale-Raspberry-Pi-and-Banana-Pi-c-2744.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fb_cpc&utm_campaign=in-ar-us-rpi-r&utm_content=tracy&utm_design=26 (http://www.banggood.com/Wholesale-Raspberry-Pi-and-Banana-Pi-c-2744.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fb_cpc&utm_campaign=in-ar-us-rpi-r&utm_content=tracy&utm_design=26)
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Macgyver
Thank you. I'm planning on using retropie. As far i am concerned n64/ps1 can run on a rpi2.
I Wont be running Anything fancy, newst machine that i have planned on running is snes.
And about the wirering. I have no clue what i did, i just followed a guide. Thats probably why it looks messy. I found the wires to be a little short though. This was just my prototype panel layout so i Will try doing better on the final. :D
Donky: thanks for the link, i Think the Tiny LCD hdmi screens Can be useful for future projects.
Question
Di you guys have any ideas on a control panel to handle snes/genisis/saturn/nes/a couple of arcade classics ?
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From the games listed, SNES is the only one with the most buttons (6), so I would at least use a minimum of 6 buttons. I had the SNES advantage stick back in the day and would use it for fighting games so all three buttons were laid out and I didn't have to use the shoulder buttons.