Newly Renovated MAME Cabinet – with Silkscreen Storage!
It’s a game cabinet! It’s silk screen storage? Sure, why not?
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Scratch Built Donkey Kong Arcade Cabinet
Redditor IntenseCircusFire made this excellent replica Donkey Kong arcade cabinet out of MDF wood. He used plans from Jakobud.com and it took him about 30 hours to build. Along the way, he took tons of photos of the build process and he shares plenty of tips and equipment suggestions if you’d like to build your own. And since the computer inside the cabinet is running MAME, the free arcade machine emulator, his game selection is not limited only to Donkey Kong, despite the nice decal job.
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Lovely Custom Xbox 360 Wireless Arcade Console
Impressive “side project” from industrial designer Nick Santillan, whose modular Red Blue CNC machine we’ve covered here a couple times before. Nick writes: Most arcade sticks on the market…all look similar, more often looking like a box with buttons. I decided to make it more elegant that someone with a nice interior living room, a […]
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How-To: Keyboard Breakout Board
If you’re building a standalone project with an embedded PC (say, a CNC rig or a MAME cabinet) one of the easiest ways to get instructions to the software is using the PC’s baked-in keyboard interface. But if you don’t want to actually use a keyboard to control the thing, you need some way to convert button presses and/or joystick movements from your custom control panel into signals that look like keyboard input.
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Wooden MAME Console
Love Hultèn‘s R-Kaid-6 packs the Maximus Arcade MAME front end, and cooly, you can stack the controllers on top of the console when you’re not playing. [Via Geeky Gadgets]
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