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Title

In-house Retro Arcade Game Cabinet

See In-house_Retro_Arcade_Game_Cabinet for plans and details.

Proposer

Tim H-Smith

Date proposed

14th May 2021

Date for Decision

21st May 2021 approved 25th May 2021

Cost

Original 1-player option: £124.89 for all parts excluding wood

2-player option: + £61.00 = £185.89 for all parts excluding wood

Cost breakdown

Raspberry Pi 3b+ board https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-plus £33.90

NEC MULTISYNC LCD 20.1" 1600x1200 DVI-I DVI-D VGA https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373476532022 £29.99

The difference in budget is dictated by whether we have a 2-player arcade cabiniet or 1-player (x 2 of the following parts)

Picade X HAT (interface for joysticks & buttons to RaspPi) x 2? https://thepihut.com/products/picade-x-hat-usb-c £15.90 x 2?

Sanwa 8-way arcade joystick x 2? https://thepihut.com/products/official-sanwa-8-way-arcade-joystick-jlf-tp-8yt £26.50 x 2?

6x Sanwa arcade buttons x 2? https://thepihut.com/products/official-sanwa-arcade-button 6 x £2.25 = £13.50 x 2?

Picade Wiring loom (wires joystick & buttons to Picade) https://thepihut.com/products/picade-wiring-loom-v2 £5.10 x 2?

Donations of items we have already:

USB Speaker bar for sound

Raspberry Pi 3B+ case, Official power adaptor

SD card, USB Storage pendrive

USB wired keyboard for RaspPi testing and config

Adaptor HDMi to DVI screen cable

Why/how this will be good to have

Norwich Hackspace already have plans for a games corner. This would be an amazing start to it.

The arcade game cabinet can help relieve stress, give people a place to do something non-working in the hackspace and may make the hackspace more popular.

Similar projects have been finished and very referenced/documented on the internet, making it a very achieveable project.

The project would directly benefit those planning and working on it by developing their skills and their selves.

Slack Channel #decision-making

Who is for it

Any and all members of Norwich Hackspace: Tim H-Smith

Comments

Should a 2-player cabinet be built?

This will dictate a higher budget - also the control panel will be far wider, meaning the whole cabinet must be wider too(!)

Will there be many users playing 2-player sessions? How often? Is this a valid design option?

It will mean shifting the 1-player controls permanently to one side.

Can we compromise by adding an external 6-button joypad for 2-player game sessions?

Please discuss in Slack channel #decision-making

Outcome

Agreed - Tim will start by buying the raspberry PI and monitor and as project progresses will purchase further compontents
Help will be required making the cabinet so if you want to get invovled talk to Tim