![]() ![]() You'll want to make sure he knows the price structure on the website because they charge per square inch and it depends on his design how many layers he may need. Ask him to design his own board and you'll pay $X of the service. Something else unique, you could get him a "gift card" (they don't really sell them) or an IOU to a PCB printing service. He may be in need of a soldering iron or a multimeter. Saleae or the knockoff I think are the better options for the software compatibility. Again not sure your budget, so you can go all sorts of ranges here ( Open Workbench Logic Sniffer or scanaplus or Saleae Logic 8 or a china clone of Saleae Logic 8). USB logic analyzers are so cheap these days and go well with hobby boards. Also with two boards you can of course make them talk to each other )ĭepends on his area of interest and your budget, but you could get him some kind of ( ) or DE0-Nano. There are also newer boards with better specs. These are boards that expand its capabilities. If you know more details about which raspberry pi he has, you could get some shield extensions. Depends on his humor and if he has barren walls like I did. I also enjoyed having one or two of these demotivational posters in my room. Also you can get him some nice resume paper to go with it. Definitely gives you some confidence for interviews and recruiting sessions. Has he applied for any jobs yet? I was given one of those leather pads with paper inside and a holder for resumes (something like this) except it was from my undergrad university with their emblem. If you get the snap-on connectors, I recommend putting a small amount of solder on all of the pads where you'll be connecting them on the strips, so that they make a good connection.Īs for the puck lights, you could probably get something like this and wire the distributor to the wifi/ZWave controller, instead of plugging it into the controller it comes with: There's a ZWave RGBW controller but it's more expensive than the wifi one and can take some more configuration: Instead of the flat channel, you might be better off with angled channel for mounting the strips above the cabinets, since they'll throw more light on the wall, which is what you'll actually see. If you don't mind going the DIY route, you could probably come in under $100 for parts for the strips: I plan on putting the glsl shaders on my github so others using the RetroPie OS in cocktail mode can use them. I'll be glad to answer any questions you guys/girls have about the build. We built it to give away at a foundation raffle a couple of weeks ago and the winner was very excited to win it. ![]() We were pretty impressed with ourselves when we finished. That way, when it is the 2 players turn, the screen auto rotates so they can play on their side. Also, the mame emulator has the ability on some 2 player games, to set cocktail mode. needed their own shader to correctly display the image to both users. It turns out that NES, SNES, Arcade, etc. A big shout out to hunterk from () forums for helping me with this. Most if not all the games needed a custom shader to correctly implement the rotation and dual flipped screens. ![]() The only really PITA is that this is a cocktail arcade. I did all the internal wiring and software side of things. He also cut out everything and assembled the shell. In all it took us a couple of weeks to design in 3D. It's got 2 coats of stain and a couple of coats of polyurethane to protect the wood.Still waiting on the custom piece of tempered glass that will go on the top.Soldered the connections from the power strip to the power socket. For power, we took a power strip and removed the plug and bought (this power socket) from Amazon.We used a Raspberry Pi 3 purchased from Amazon.Buttons and Joysticks were purchased from.It also helped that the size matched the PC fans so the hole pattern would look nice on the side I did look at some other solutions but since I already had them and they were powered, we decided on using them. Speakers are from an old kiosk that we were throwing away at work.We did this because the monitor would get a little warm after playing. For the monitor we used a Dell 17" (we had lying around) mounted portrait. We used wood glue and wood putty to put everything together. Then cut out everything using a CNC router. We designed the cabinet in 3d to make sure everything would fit. I wanted to show off an arcade cabinet that my brother in-law and I built. ![]()
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