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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

Cost

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

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

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