Retro Arcade

In this instructable, we explain how we made our arcade machine.

First we will explain the demands of the project:

• At least a 10 inch TFT screen, preferably a colour screen
• Max. mass is 15 kg
• Stable mountable on a table
• PAsters mad with a laser cutter
• Max. volume 45x45x45
• The whole project has to be documented on Instructables
• Use a raspberry-pie
• Make a log file
• Work in a team of 4 students
• Use the Self-assessment

Materials:

• Raspberry pi (preferably 4)
• Power supply for your raspberry pie
• VGA/HDMI to micro HDMI (depends if your screen has HDMI or VGA)
• 4 Electronical buttons 3 cm diameter
• 2 Electronical buttons 2.5 cm diameter
• 1 Joystick
• 1 tv/monitor or any other screen
• 4 speakers
• micro-sd

Tools:

• Laser cutter
• Hand saw
• Calliper
• Pencil
• Ruler
• micro-sd reader

We choose for these material from these sources as they where recommend by school. We also compared them to some other stuff but then we decided on these as the price were alright and

start the raspberry while having it connected to the screen.

If it shows some raspberry's in the top left of the screen it's working

After you did this follow the instructions that the raspberry is giving you. If you have wifi or ethernet, connect the raspberry to them. This way the raspberry can update to the latest version.

First, you download pie imager on this website from the official raspberry-pi website. https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

After you install the imager open the imager. On the screen, you can select different options.

First, click on the "Choose os" button. Once you have pressed this button, you have to select "Emulation and games OS" this will give you a choice between Retropie and Recallbox. On this screen press retropie. after you select Retropie, choose which version corresponds to the raspberry-pi you own.

After having done all that, press "Choose storage" here you can select where you want to place the retropie software. Choose the sd card that you want to use.

After having chosen where to save the software, select write. this will then write the software on the sd.

After it is done writing the files on your sd take it out of your pc/laptop and plug it into the raspberry-pi.

Now switch on the raspberry-pie and it should show you the second image.

From here follow the steps that Retropi give you to finish configuring.

To get games on the Retropi you need to do the following steps.

• Take an empty USB and plug it into your pc/laptop
• Make a new folder on the USB and call it "retropie"
• Safely eject this USB out of your pc/laptop
• Plug this USB into the raspberry-pi
• After having it plugged into the raspberry-pi wait 5 minutes
• after the 5 minutes take it out and you should have a folder that looks like the image

Now retropie has made some roms on your USB. In these roms you can upload games. When you plug the USB then back into the raspberry-pi it will load the games.

If this explanation is to difficult. Here is the video that we used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDMPBlagLAc&t=2040s

First, we made a 3d sketch of what we wanted the box to look like.

Our design choice was an arcade machine that could be played from a top view and side view. This way we would be able to more kinds of games.

The measurements for the top part are: 450x350x100 mm

This nicely fits our screen and we have some space to also put our cables

The measurements for the bottom part are: 350x350x350 mm

This will let us have a stable footing on a table and let us also see it from the top

we made it so that our arcade could be put together like a puzzle.

As the demands stated we had to laser cut all our construction parts. We prepared everything for that. But then when we wanted to laser cut our wood we realised that the wood we got from Kees couldn't be cut.

This really threw a wrench in our plans. So then we had to cut every piece ourselves. This combined with our late start with construction made it that we couldn't finish the project to the point we wanted.

This is how our project finished. As it was our fault for not doing much and starting late with the construction.

So for the next project, we know what to NOT do.