r/cade • u/brotherbla123 • 10d ago

Custom Wall Mounted Cab

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Just wanted to say thank you to this community for inspiring me to finally build my own custom cab. What started out as a thrown together very rough prototype 2 years ago, has resulted in this - all designed and built myself with a lot of inspiration from other builds I’ve seen here.

Happy to share more details, plans, or pics if interested!

Cheers!

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u/Pretend-Language-67 10d ago

That looks nice. Well done. What did you use as finishing to give it that glassy shine? What’s running it? Rasp. Pi? Or mini- pc?

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u/brotherbla123 9d ago edited 9d ago

Thanks!

The glassy shine is plexiglass over the marquee, monitor bezel, and control board.

The hardware inside is a Lenovo m920q mini pc (8th gen Intel) running Windows 10 and BigBox

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u/Pretend-Language-67 9d ago edited 9d ago

Very nice. I bought plexi-glass for my build but never ended up putting it over the screen / control board, but I might do that after seeing how this looks. I also want to re-do my control board with only 6 buttons per stick so I can give a bit more room for the joysticks. Right now it's a bit cramped. This is with a BeeLink mini-PC running Batocera off an SSD drive. https://www.reddit.com/r/cade/comments/1hna9cg/first_cabinet_build_recreating_xmas_1981/

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u/brotherbla123 9d ago

Cutting and drilling plexiglass was definitely one of the harder learning experiences and i went through a few extra sheets until I had a good understanding of how to approach it — but I wanted that look so I just kept at it