i made a cardboard bartop arcade and its super sturdy and !!
6 years ago
it took a few months (because life) but !!!! lookit!
https://twitter.com/elpatrixf/statu.....10914775580672
I started working on it back on september but only today I finally decided it was time to apply the contact paper so I could finally assemble it.
It's all made with pulp boards (they're really strong, they were very difficult to cut with scissors and I can apply a lot of force and it doesn't even bend), an old android tablet (TOSHIBA at15-a, on android jellybean, can run retroarch/mame4droid/epsxe), all held together with glue, superglue, tape, red/black/white contact paper, and uses a usb arcade interface connected to 8 push buttons and a red ball stick. I'm considering adding more decoration to the sides and the marquee but, for now it's fully assembled and finally playable!
Here's some extra pics of the process! https://imgur.com/a/YeJFeWu
https://twitter.com/elpatrixf/statu.....10914775580672
I started working on it back on september but only today I finally decided it was time to apply the contact paper so I could finally assemble it.
It's all made with pulp boards (they're really strong, they were very difficult to cut with scissors and I can apply a lot of force and it doesn't even bend), an old android tablet (TOSHIBA at15-a, on android jellybean, can run retroarch/mame4droid/epsxe), all held together with glue, superglue, tape, red/black/white contact paper, and uses a usb arcade interface connected to 8 push buttons and a red ball stick. I'm considering adding more decoration to the sides and the marquee but, for now it's fully assembled and finally playable!
Here's some extra pics of the process! https://imgur.com/a/YeJFeWu

Arti4000
~arti4000
That looks super neat!

Ranft
~ranft
This is so so rad!! Did you design it yourself? Or is there a tutorial? I'd love to make one of these for my hubby. :3

elPatrixF
~elpatrixf
OP
I pretty much designed it myself! I looked up a few pics online to give myself some ideas but the whole design of the cab i just drew it out on a sheet of paper one night hhaha

DownThePipes
~downthepipes
that's bad ass dude

pinderhooks
~pinderhooks
that looks awesome, you did a beautiful job on it!

Somnium_Town
~somniumtown
Neato! What are the parts? Is the stick a Sanwa or a Hori? The buttons seem to be Happ style.


I have no idea what brand they are tbh, but yeah the buttons are like happs and everything is leaf switches because im like no clicky buttons hhaha

Killereye
~killereye
Looks quite alright! Good job!