Newest Mini Arcade Cabinet :) Clear Acrylic
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So I just finished this tonight... Just need to put a back panel on it.
My ultra mini clear acrylic arcade bartop. Nimble Storage is the company I work for.. i play to give these out to partners etc.
Total cost is under $200.Pi + 7" Pi Display (btw, i found out you can power EVERYTHING for this cabinet from 1 5v pi power supply)
Acrylic, LED Strip and some buttons.Now I have to streamline the process a bit and crank some out :)
Hope you enjoy
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Sorry, while I may have a few looking.. The control stick in games allows UP/RIGHT angle and DOWN/LEFT angle, but UP/LEFT and DOWN/RIGHT dont work... any idea why this may be?
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@dunginhawk Looks great! Nice and compact. What screen are you using? What input controller, GPIO?
How are you mounting the screen? I like the daring move going with vertical orientation!
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7.1" raspberry pi display
GPIO simply black and red pins.
Powered all by 1 adapter in to the PI.So Inside the acrylic I mount a bunch of long pieces of acrylic, by which to weld other parts to. The image below shows the cross member for the display. There are 4 holes on the back (sorta like vesa). The box in the middle is to allow the PI + controller to ft through.
just screw on the display to this plate, and attach :)
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@dunginhawk Aha! I see it now. I noticed the welded thin "rails", but I couldn't understand how the screen was setup. I get it. So this is a little more open than I thought with no front "glass" so to speak. Looks are deceiving with clear parts, but I bet you get some cooling benefits.
As for your controls mapping, I think a similar question came up just a week or so ago. . . I will see if I can find it.
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@dunginhawk Gpio? But I can see the zero delay board
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Im not up on all the terminology i guess.. i meant connected the LCD through GPIO to the PI... there is a a controller board yes.. just a cheap one that comes with the kit or buttons and joystick
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caver01. please do try to find the control mapping question.. im modifying my plans to change how it works in future revisions, but this one at least is WELDED to the frame, so that joystick isnt coming out.
So I did in fact (its not in this picture) cut a piece of 2mm acrylic as a front glass... I designed it such that the front bottom of the screen comes in contact with the joystick panel, creating a wedge where the 2mm acrylic rests in.
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@dunginhawk said in Newest Mini Arcade Cabinet :) Clear Acrylic:
Im not up on all the terminology i guess.. i meant connected the LCD through GPIO to the PI... there is a a controller board yes.. just a cheap one that comes with the kit or buttons and joystick
Yeah, so it is possible to connect each button and joystick directional switch to a GPIO pin and then you run software that translates the pin signals into keyboard keys, for example. That's what people normally mean when they talk about wiring arcade controls to GPIO.
It looks like you have the Zero Delay board which connects via USB I expect. I have the IPAC4 which is similar. You wire your controls to that board and the board takes care of turning the buttons into keyboard or gamepad signals via USB.
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@dunginhawk said in Newest Mini Arcade Cabinet :) Clear Acrylic:
caver01. please do try to find the control mapping question.
SO, it might have been this post I was thinking about.
I think that in order to troubleshoot controls, we will need to get into the specifics about which emulators you are testing, but for starters, we need to take it back to wiring and verify what wires are going to what switches on the joystick.
I don't have direct experience with your controller (zero delay board I guess), but I expect a lot has been written, asked and answered here about it. Does it appear as a keyboard to the Pi? Gamepad?
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Thanks caver.. it seems strange that it would matter where I plug the cables in. at least as far as in to the zero delay board.
because once you map it in RPI then it is taken care of. Up down left right map just fine..
ill dig in a bit i guess.
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Weird that mapping on the zero delay board was the problem... It truly shouldnt matter which port you use, because you just remap it later :)
either way, i dug in, put them right, and now it all works..
makes me feel better.
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@dunginhawk said in Newest Mini Arcade Cabinet :) Clear Acrylic:
Weird that mapping on the zero delay board was the problem... It truly shouldnt matter which port you use, because you just remap it later :)
either way, i dug in, put them right, and now it all works..
makes me feel better.
thanksCool! Lucky guess maybe. I read an older post that said that board also doesn't like sharing the ground amongst different buttons. I guess they each have their own? Weird. Still, I am glad the board works, as it is a common, inexpensive item that appears in button/joystick kits.
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I work for Ingram Micro (distributor) in the UK and I used to sell Nimble as a complementary storage solution to my customers to cisco infrastructure (being a cisco specialist) but since the acquisition not so much lol
Would have loved one of these as a freebie from a vendor!!!! Hook a brother up!
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Haha, thats awesome davidpearl :) I work with ingram a TON here in the states. Great disti for us. Nothing has changed since the acquisition David. My day to day is exactly as it was. The arrays are exactly as they were :). BUt yes, our cisco relationship has soured, as expected :)
You probably worked with Charlie and Nick Dyer? :) my boys -
Very cool build, but how does HP handle the whole "giving out ROMs we don't own" thing?
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Im giving away machines. Not software. If they want anything on it, its on them. I just give them the link to retropie and let them go do it... Most of them are smart engineers. dont have an issue with it.
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@dunginhawk I need another Pi project like I need a hole in the head, but I absolutely love this. If you decide to make these available in any sort of kit, please @ me.
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I am going to make it a kit, with just the laser cut acrylic pieces, so you assemble yourself. Easy enough... Is there a way to IM you through here? i couldnt find it.. but again, im not that bright haha
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@obsidianspider said in Newest Mini Arcade Cabinet :) Clear Acrylic:
I need another Pi project like I need a hole in the head
I just want to see you add a little acrylic bartop icon to your signature!
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