It s essentially a fancy cupboard that holds a monitor speakers a computer a keyboard and some buttons.
Build your own arcade cabinet with raspberry pi.
If the pacade is more your style you can check out the pacade bartop arcade build and get the pacade bartop arcade plans here.
Build your own mini arcade cabinet with raspberry pi.
Over the years we ve covered quite a few raspberry pi based arcade cabinets and admittedly many of them have been fairly similar.
After all there s only so much variation you can make.
The porta pi arcade is a desktop sized fully functional arcade cabinet measuring just under 13 x 9 x 10 inches hxwxd.
You can make your own cabinet using not much more than a couple of sheets of mdf some clear plastic and a few cans of spray paint.
Attach the other side panel to the back using a 600 mm piece to support the side.
If you want a clean setup and add the roms yourself download the latest retropie image for your raspberry pi here then use etcher mac or win32diskimager win to write your image to the microsd when that s done put your microsd in your raspberry and turn on your cabinet.
Attach the back to the side panel.
In this video i build a bartop arcade machine from a half sheet of mdf using a raspberry pi.
He s built a full size standing arcade console that is powered by raspberry pi and includes six pull out drawers for extra storage which brings some practicality to this fun machine.
The porta pi mini arcade is a desktop sized fully functional mini arcade cabinet measuring just under 13 x 9 x 10 inches hxwxd.
Cutout and attach all the remaining panels.
Top control front door inside shelf inside top shelf marquee bottom inside bottom.
Use the 19 mm x 42 mm pine build a frame around the side panels.
An arcade cabinet is much easier to make than you might expect.
Runs off a raspberry pi and generates zero noise and almost no heat.
Precision laser cut cabinet 10 1 hdmi vga composite lcd screen.
Of course you could stuff any other retro console inside but the rpi is so versatile powerful and awesome that i stuck with it to build this mini arcade.
Turns your raspberry pi or other tiny computer into a fully functional mini arcade.
Space saving design that can fit anywhere in your home or office.
Raspberry pi press has made available the next issue of its excellent hackspace magazine providing details on how you can build your very own full size diy arcade cabinet.
This video is sponsored by jlcpcb.
The magazine is now.