[Swansea Hackspace] mame/arcade cabinet

[Justin Mitchell]

On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 10:16 +0000, Emyr Morris wrote:
> Was one of the things on the pixie board of suggestions a mame /
> arcade cabinet project for the hackspace?

It's been a long term wishlist of mine to have a MAME arcade machine,
but i've never really done anything about it.

> What do we need to move that project along?

> Is there a list of things we need?

There are a lot of choices in how to implement it, first of all is the
size. I feel that one of the most challenging parts is going to be
building a suitable cabinet for it.

There are open source plans for full sized cabinets, but we dont have a
cnc or other machines big enough to make one that way so it would have
to be done by hand.
http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/draw.htm

There are smaller designs, that would fit in the laser cutter for
example. http://spritesmods.com/?art=rpi_arcade&f=yt

electronics wise...
any pc motherboard, or a RPi
a monitor of suitable size (needs to be HDMI if RPi)
buttons and joysticks
a usb interface to those buttons e.g. UnoJoy
https://code.google.com/p/unojoy/