09/20

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

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 progresses will purchase further compontents