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elproducts

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Posted: 06:46pm 04 Nov 2012

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Ok, this is just unbelievable.
This kickstarter project out of the UK is up to 46,000 pounds in just 6 days for a miniature Pacman desktop case with a raspberry pi as the guts. And it appears they don't even have the Pacman game ready to ship yet.

So take a color Maximite, build a nice box and run Nick's Pacman game and you have the same thing ready to run. Only tough part might be the small color VGA.

Make a larger sized one with a VGA monitor and you're ahead of where they are.

46,000 pounds!!!!

Nick, your Pacman game is worth more than you know apparently.

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djuqa

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Posted: 06:58pm 04 Nov 2012

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vga monitors in any size from 5in to 22in readily available
the buttons and joystick are also easily purchased
Edited by djuqa 2012-11-06

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bigmik

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Posted: 08:02pm 04 Nov 2012

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djuqa said vga monitors in any size from 5in to 22in readily available
the buttons and joystick are also easily purchased

Where is a cheap place to get 5-7" VGA monitors from David?

It seems to me that I can buy a Full HD 22"/24" monitor with HDMI and LED backlight cheaper than a small bog standard VGA monitor. (I have recently seen 22/24" monitors for less than $150)

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Posted: 08:07pm 04 Nov 2012

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i said readily not cheaply
But a nice little 15-17in would be great and cheap

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jdh2550
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Posted: 06:47am 05 Nov 2012

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elproducts said Ok, this is just unbelievable.
This kickstarter project out of the UK is up to 46,000 pounds in just 6 days for a miniature Pacman desktop case with a raspberry pi as the guts. ...

Nick, your Pacman game is worth more than you know apparently.

I think you're missing the point a little - it's not really about PacMan. It's about making a "mini MAME cabinet" that uses a Pi or other SBC as the guts. MAME = Multi-Arcade-Machine-Emulator. So it's the actual PAC MAN code or other arcade machine that you can get the ROMS for. And actually, more than making a MAME cabinet it's about doing "something with the SBC you bought to play with and now don't know what to with".

So I think the large raise just means there's a lot of folks who bought Raspberry Pi's but with no specific project in mind.

BTW, I made a half-sized MAME cabinet for my son for Xmas. Based around a PC and using a 24" CRT from the local University property disposition, MDF from Home Depot, interface hardware, buttons and joystick from the 'net. The thing ways a ton - "half-sized" means that you put it on a table rather than it being a complete free-standing cabinet. These days it mostly sits in the corner unused - but it was a popular present and had a shelf life of a couple of years.

Hmmm, maybe I'll print up a plastic one...

@mik - yeah, I'd like to find a cheap source of vga displays

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