2 player bartop project with kids

senorlloyd · February 15, 2020, 1:13am

Had a ton of fun building this with a bunch of middle schoolers. Running raspberry pi with makecode arcade. We’ve already had quite a few gems gamewise from the students. I will try and post some of them with their permission.

peli · February 15, 2020, 1:55am

Looks amazing !

MinatsuT · February 15, 2020, 3:58am

Wow it’s fantastic!

peli · February 15, 2020, 5:14am

Do you have blueprints? We should start gathering designs and share building tips!

senorlloyd · February 15, 2020, 5:43am

Thanks everyone. I have design files for 1/2" wood. It’s all in SVG because we cut the parts by CNC. Let me see if I can post a parts list. It uses the slightly smaller snap in buttons that are common in a lot of the Chinese joystick and buttons kits you can source on Amazon and eBay.

It might take me a few days but I’ll come back to this thread. I’m also almost done with a second one in a Fix it Felix theme.

peli · February 15, 2020, 5:53am

That’s awesome! We’ll link it from https://arcade.makecode.com/hardware/raspberry-pi !

shaqattack8 · February 16, 2020, 3:01am

Looks incredible!

AlexK · February 16, 2020, 4:08am

I absolutely love this! When MakeCode Arcade was first announced a little over a year ago, this was one of the first things that I envisioned: Being able to build an arcade machine and write games to play on it. So glad to see so much creativity in this community!

peli · February 16, 2020, 4:26pm

I’ve looking at the simplest way to build an arcade cabinet… I need to revisit the cardboard version now.

Also if your school has a shop class, consider working with the shop teacher to build arcades for you. It is a great exercise in cabinetry techniques.

3issa · February 16, 2020, 5:51pm

This bartop is really great. Love it !

reyhanPanci256 · February 17, 2020, 9:59am

cool!

mickfuzz · February 17, 2020, 1:06pm

Inspired!

senorlloyd · February 17, 2020, 11:56pm

Just about done with the second one. I worked with a teacher and his classroom to build one for his room and then I made a second so that I could house it in the school library to showcase student work. Here is a shared folder that I’m dumping all of my project files into. If anyone wanted to take a stab at building using my files I’m more than happy to field questions since documenting isn’t always my forte.