Well, after I had build my Centipede Cabinet ( see http://tksarcadeproject.blogspot.de/ ) I was basically all set. Honestly, I use it pretty often as it is in our living room an German TV forces one one a frequent basis to look for alternatives than watching crap.
Since I would like to take my cabinet to parties with friends and be more flexible, I thought of building a bartop since a while. Now - a few weeks back - was the time to make it happen.
After a while of doing research, checking out Rasmus Koenigs excellent site at http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/ and looking at hundreds of high-resolution pics at http://www.arcadeartwork.org I decided to build a Frogger Bartop based on PiMame / Raspberry.
To begin the show, I ordered some stuff ...
- a raspberry pi, mem card and power supply (50 Euro)
- female jumper cable to connect to the GPIO pins of the raspberry (5 Euro)
- a new Monitor for my PC (allowing to re-use the 10 year old 4:3 one in the Bartop)
- a cable to connect the old Monitor to the HDMI output of the raspberry (5 Euro)
- a small USB keyboard (10 Euro)
- LED strip for the backlit marquee (10 Euro)
- the sideart stickers based on own modified graphics ( 30 Euro )
- some Plexi (20 Euro)
- wood panels of course (40 Euro)
- 5 Meters of 20 mm wide T-Molding (25 Euro) (only 30 cm left after the build ... lucky me)
- buttons and Sanwa Joystick for the control panel (45 Euro)
(list to be updated later)
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