This is James Milroy’s 3⁄4-size Star Wars upright cabinet, powered by Raspberry Pi and made in March – the Month of Making!
A load of techniques have gone into this build, including CAD, CNCing the 18 mm MDF for the cabinet, 3D-printing the joystick handles to get that authentic X-wing feel and, of course, connecting all the electronics up.
At the heart of the build there’s a Raspberry Pi 3B+ (soon to be upgraded to a Raspberry Pi 4) running MAME, and a Pimoroni Picade X HAT.
There are a few things to note here. The first is that the original volume control is now attached to the amplifier, so the form of the original device follows the function of the new device. The second is that the LCD screen is ever so slightly a different aspect ratio than the original broadcast […]
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