Build Your Own Arcade Cabinet With Raspberry Pi

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

Build your own arcade cabinet with raspberry pi.

Of course you could stuff any other retro con. Take the usb cables from the button controllers and plug them into the pi. Because the best retro video games are meant to be played on an arcade machine. This porta pi arcade is a diy kit that turns your raspberry pi model b b pi2 or other tiny computer in a fully functional mini arcade why.

The porta pi mini arcade is a desktop sized fully functional mini arcade cabinet measuring just under 13 x 9 x 10 inches hxwxd. Take your raspberry pi i am using a 3b model but it works with raspberry pi 0 1 2 3 and 4 attach the raspberry pi to the underside of the arcade deck. 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 porta pi arcade turns your raspberry pi in a mini arcade machine.

It is powered by the raspberry pi micro computer and plays multiple types of retro games primarily nes snes megadrive and arcade mame games. The galactic starcade is a diy retro bartop arcade cabinet for two players. I did it with screws but you could do it with hot glue or some adhesive. I made this to be a kit so anyone can build it.

Enjoy all your favorite retro arcade games without the enormous cabinet. 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. Build your own mini arcade cabinet with raspberry pi. He s built a full size standing arcade console that is powered by raspberry pi and includes six pull out drawers for extra storage which brings some practicality to this fun machine.

Full size arcade cabinet using raspberry pi. 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. The porta pi mini arcade is a desktop sized fully functional mini arcade cabinet measuring just under 13 x 9 x 10 inches hxwxd. It s essentially a fancy cupboard that holds a monitor speakers a computer a keyboard and some buttons.

My design is based on an instructable by experimendel.