Arcade Gaming Station

The housing of the arcade demonstrator is completely built with a laser cutter. The used material for the control panel is Plexiglas (4 mm), the rest is built out of 4 mm wood. To rebuild the setup you need a laser cutter, glue and vice clamps.Don’t glue everything together right away as you need to have access to the inside for installing the electronics. Start with glueing the side walls and the middle plate only.

Now assemble the buttons and the joystick. Attach the sensors and magnets and start wiring and screwing everything in place. The Merus Audio Amp Hat ZW is set on top of the Raspberry Pi pin header. On top of this, the Shield2Go Adapter is placed. You need to wire the pins”3V3”, “GND” and “INT” (or “Q”) from the Hall Switch Shield2Go to the corresponding pins of the Raspberry Pi Shield2Go Adapter – as you would do if you would place the Shield2Go directly into the Slot. For Button “A” this would be the pins of Slot 1, Button “B” is connected to Slot 2. For the 3D magnetic sensor Shield2Go at the joystick you need to wire the pins “3V3”, “GND”, “SDA” and “SCL” to the corresponding pins of Slot 3.

Write the Arcade Gaming Station Image file to the SD card, put it into the Raspberry Pi and start it up.
Now you are ready to play!

A more detailed description can be found in the application note below.