Project ARCADE

We made a project of an Arcade game.

-Monitor

-Raspberry Pi

-Joystick

-Buttons

-Controller

-Controller receiver

Here's where we got our ideas from the internet and tried to pick 3 of these which we found interesting as a design. We then made the 3 designs in SOLIDWORKS to see which design looks more like an arcade. We made these drawings in the Solid works and decided which one looks sufficient to make in 8 weeks deadline.

we ordered parts and the wood plates to start laser cutting and putting the joysticks and the buttons together into the block. We had problems with ordering the parts because usually we had stock in school but they were over and we had almost no time to and we were worried on how we will get our equipment. We tried to see how long the order was going to take to come. Next week the orders came in and we had to rush through the process of getting them all together. We also had problems with the ordering of buttons because they were also out of stock and we had to borrow some from our colleague. By the last week, we had everything on time.

We joined the plates together using the holes and made the holes bigger for some because there were errors with the laser cutter. Sometimes the holes were bigger then the pin and other times the hole was smaller and it couldn't fit through. So we then went to the makerspace and started cutting the pieces that were too big and tried to fit it in the holes. sometimes the wood cut into two piece so we had to glue a few parts together and then fit into the holes. We also wanted to put speakers/Audio to the machine but we couldn't order speakers with the time we have left so next time we want to manage our time better and plan well for the future so we don't have this issue ever again.

We had to format the Raspberry PI and download the games on it so we can play on it. We had plenty of issues with the raspberry pi. First we couldn't connect the monitor to the raspberry pi. we then trouble shoot it and we connected to a different monitor and that worked so we figured that our monitor was broken and didn't work. So then we asked our teacher if we can have an external monitor and he accepted that under circumstances. We then had to connect the Xbox to the raspberry pi. We also had issues with that because the Xbox was too old that it was getting recognized so we then had try it with a wire and that work either so the other option was to try it with a Bluetooth receiver and that worked at the end.

We had to configure the controller and add it as a input method onto the Rasp Pi using a command with Bluetooth onto the CMD of the configuration of Rasp PI. We programmed that the controller was one of the input methods to play a game. We had some issues with this too because we had to go to the console of CMD the raspberry PI and then download a few drivers like Wi-Fi driver, updating the raspberry pi itself, updating Bluetooth drivers and connecting a controller to the Raspberry PI.

-Material was given by the school.

-Buttons and joysticks were ordered by the school.

-Display also by the school.

-Raspberry pi also given by the school in the budget.

-Wireless Xbox and receiver-usually goes for 30 euros on the market.

-Man hours=40 hours for making the whole 3D Design.

-Labor=2 Hours to assemble and setup the controller to the Raspberry PI.

-Total cost price=man hours+labor+Profit(20%)=70 Euros+50 Euros+20%=136 euros

-Approximately 140 Euros.