First bartop arcade project - finished

Brigane

@SteffenMB Thanks for the quick respond. This website is gold worthy, with many functions that seems quite useful. I didn't know such a useful website existed at all. Thanks a bunch!

Arrakis

Looks killer! The chrome edging makes it stand out! Very nice

SteffenMB

@Arrakis Thanks :-)

SteffenMB

@Meneer-Jansen said in First bartop arcade project - finished:

I see that it's not a Picade. How did you manage power? Do you have an adapter lying on the floor for the large LCD screen? Because the Picade gets its power from USB for the Pi, the audio and the LCD screen. If you want a larger screen then you run into troubles: they ofte do not work w/ the hardware that comes w/ the Picade and a larger LCD screen takes more power.

I almost bought me a Picade a few weeks ago when it was in stock again. But I like to play classic Arcade games (Mame) and those are 3:4 and not 4:3 which make them not occupy the whole screen. Classic games like Pac-Man look way to small on Picade's 8 inch screen.

Your cabinet, however, looks like something from 80's Arcade heaven! Especially on the beer fridge. My circle of friends is gonna be much bigger if I were to have this thing in my house!

Are you considering selling a kit on-line? Dunno if you'll even break even on that, but you will make some 40+ men very, very happy, ha ha.

Hi Maneer

About the power, I have a power strip inside with 5 things plugged into it:

Raspberry Pi 3
the amplifier (whichs runs 2x15W speakers and a 30W subwoofer)
the LED-buttons
the marquee light (a LED-strip)
and, as you guessed, an old 19" monitor.

He, he, thanks for wanting to buy a kit :-) I'm afraid I haven't got plans on doing that, because I think the thing would become too expensive to make a profit (also just the time to make instructions etc.) - and I have bought pieces and bits from a lot of places like Denmark, England, France, Germany, China and Bulgaria.

But there are places, whichs sell kits like that - or almost. I've come across places like https://gameroomsolutions.com/ in the US and https://arcade4you.de/ in Germany. But there is also great pleasure in putting it together yourself the way you want it - searching Ebay or finding cheap, second hand stuff (I found and bought the 19" monitor for only £5).

Meneer Jansen

@SteffenMB said in First bartop arcade project - finished:

Hi Maneer

About the power, I have a power strip inside with 5 things plugged into it:

Raspberry Pi 3

the amplifier (whichs runs 2x15W speakers and a 30W subwoofer)

the LED-buttons

the marquee light (a LED-strip)

and, as you guessed, an old 19" monitor.

He, he, thanks for wanting to buy a kit :-) I'm afraid I haven't got plans on doing that, because I think the thing would become too expensive to make a profit (also just the time to make instructions etc.) - and I have bought pieces and bits from a lot of places like Denmark, England, France, Germany, China and Bulgaria.

But there are places, whichs sell kits like that - or almost. I've come across places like https://gameroomsolutions.com/ in the US and https://arcade4you.de/ in Germany. But there is also great pleasure in putting it together yourself the way you want it - searching Ebay or finding cheap, second hand stuff (I found and bought the 19" monitor for only £5).

Hello Steffen,

I see now where one can order the kit that you built. It looks great. But wasn't it difficult to get the 19" monitor in?

SteffenMB

@Meneer-Jansen Well, pretty much everything in this one was a tight fit, but the monitor wasn't a big problem. It could have been if it was bigger, though. 19" is maximum in this cabinet kit.

PingSpike

Props for the beer fridge mate :)

rbaker

@SteffenMB Did you paint the case? It looks amazing!

SteffenMB

@rbaker Thanks! Yes, I gave it some layers of black spray paint (satin finish). It was originally white, which could have looked cool (and modern) too, but I wanted it to be a bit more 'retro black' :-)

HOW

@SteffenMB Really like the Bartop on top of Beer Fridge solution.....Excellent idea!

sc0tt88

That is class!! I really want one of these now, would never be able to build it myself though

jimd0586

@SteffenMB

Nice work! I just finished mine. I think I have the same cabinet kit. What did you use for the trim/molding? Did you have to route grooves for it? My cabinet has no grooves and I haven't yet installed t-molding. I am stuck on what to do. It would nice to know what you did.

SteffenMB

@jimd0586 said in First bartop arcade project - finished:

@SteffenMB

Nice work! I just finished mine. I think I have the same cabinet kit. What did you use for the trim/molding? Did you have to route grooves for it? My cabinet has no grooves and I haven't yet installed t-molding. I am stuck on what to do. It would nice to know what you did.

There wasn't slots for T-molding, but instead I bought som chrome strips used for car styling :-) You just have to measure the width of your cabinet edges and find af chrome styling strip that fits. Easy!

I used som extra glue to make it stick,however, since the tape wasn't strong enough everywhere. But it actually works and looks nice, I think :-)

RocknR00ster

Nicely done, I'm looking to do this same project once I finish my other one!

SteffenMB

Thanks, everybody :-)