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    Built my first full size arcade machine.

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      Devon_Fourie
      last edited by Devon_Fourie

      Hi all.

      This is my first post on your forum but I have been using this site for a couple of months now because I decided to build my first arcade machine. The idea came from the fact a work colleague had purchased one and then one day I upgraded my daughters TV from a 24" to a 32" and so I ended up having the spare 24" and I also had a raspberry Pi laying around so I decided to give it a go.

      I completely cut shaped and built the cabinet from scratch, now I have never done any sort of wood work like this before and bought all the tools purely for this build (apart from my impact driver set) so I had to learn it all as I went along. Now I know there are some areas that could have been done better and that I would have gone down another route to complete but as I say I was learning as I went along so.

      Please click on the link below to go through the pictures and videos that I took during the build process. I started the job early feb 2020 and got to the stage I am at mid to late March. It is not completely finished yet as I still need to do the material grill by the kick plate which houses the sub-woofer, the top panel above the Marquee and the couple of service doors at the rear.

      Pictures of my first Arcade Machine.

      Facebook link to my build

      Thank you for your time.
      Devon.

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        theissdev
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        Nice job man! Definitely an upgrade from the cardboard box! =D

        Very clean and I'd digging the shallow depth.

        Cocktail Cab Project - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/23763/cocktail-cab-project?_=1592408967951

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