Build Arcade Cabinet With Raspberry Pi

This porta pi arcade turns your raspberry pi in a mini arcade machine.

Build arcade cabinet with raspberry pi.

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. This video is sponsored by jlcpcb. An arcade cabinet is much easier to make than you might expect. How to build a full size mame multiple arcade machine emulator arcade cabinet i had wanted to build a arcade machine for a long time and was surprised how easy it was to build.

It has an old school look with original arcade controls can be played with any usb controller you can find is fairly cheap and easy to build and there is an unlimited amount of retro game roms available online. The porta pi mini arcade is a desktop sized fully functional mini arcade cabinet measuring just under 13 x 9 x 10 inches hxwxd. In this guide i will build a small bartop arcade machine based on retropie running on a raspberry pi. My design is based on an instructable by experimendel.

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. Get professional printed circ. It s essentially a fancy cupboard that holds a monitor speakers a computer a keyboard and some buttons.

Of course you could stuff any other retro con.