Projects

Arcade coffee table

  • Build
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Retro gaming
A white wooden coffee table with a screen under black glass and a two-player control panel with red joysticks and buttons
The finished table.
Year
2017
Designed in
SketchUp
Computer
Raspberry Pi 3, RetroPie
Controls
Wired to the Pi's GPIOs

My first build, in 2017, when I was 15. A coffee table with an arcade inside: an old TV sits under the glass top, and a two-player control panel runs along one side, with a joystick and six buttons per player and four buttons in the middle.

I designed the table in SketchUp. A Raspberry Pi 3 runs RetroPie, and the arcade buttons and joysticks are wired directly to its GPIOs.

The control panel and screen wired up on the floor before the table was built, showing the MAME menu
The first version, wired up on the floor before the table existed.