A Tabletop Arcade Built to Show Off
One of the more popular uses for a Raspberry Pi is as a retro arcade machine. Most of these projects either leave the board exposed or stuff it into a repurposed enclosure. But if you’re going to build an arcade machine from scratch, Michael Klements thinks it should have a design you can be proud of. That’s why he put extra effort into his DIY tabletop arcade machine built around a Raspberry Pi 4. It’s not just functional, but also beautiful.
For a project like this, your first instinct might be to use the latest hardware. But given the cost of a Raspberry Pi 5 these days, Klements instead chose a 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4. For older consoles and arcade games, the Pi 4 provides more than enough computing horsepower. However, if you want to play games from the later 1990s and beyond, you might need to pony up...
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