Good morning!
With this year's lovely winter underway, I decided to create a Bartop slot machine. My main goal was the enclosure itself. It was intended to be as aesthetically pleasing on the inside as it was on the outside. Ultimately, the whole thing is supposed to be fun and evoke the nostalgia of my teenage years, when I was faced with the difficult choice of going for an Italian ice cream on a hot day or squeezing out the seventh sweat in an arcade. I'm sure the atmosphere of the 90s arcade skirmishes won't be 100% evoked, but a substitute and a momentary return to the past is enough for me, where the only duty was to take out the rubbish and do homework. The rest of the time was up to me to manage.
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Before I started, I looked around at other people's work. After making an initial selection, I set about building a template for the sides and then a cardboard model to test the ergonomics of the finished case.
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I made all the connections with M5 screws and repair screws, threaded so that it can be easily disassembled if necessary.
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- I made the case using 18 mm thick plywood.
- I ordered the set of buttons from AliExpress.
- The stickers were also ordered from a dealer in the middle state.
- I painted the whole thing with matt acrylic paints, white as a primer, followed by two coats each of RAL 1013 'beige' paint and black. At the very end a layer of matt varnish. This is my unlikeliest part of the work, but very important as it gives the final finish.
- The monitor I used was an old one, lying in the basement and getting dusty, the computer was given to me by a friend on the condition that we drank a couple of beers each while playing the slot machine. USB powered speakers mounted on the back of the case.
- The whole thing runs on "Batocera" software.
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Currently I have no way to push myself to the hardware and play quietly, it is occupied by the other household members. I spent about a month on the project, in the evenings for about 3 h/5 days a week. It was a lot of fun and also taught me a lot.
Greetings, Yonada resident
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With this year's lovely winter underway, I decided to create a Bartop slot machine. My main goal was the enclosure itself. It was intended to be as aesthetically pleasing on the inside as it was on the outside. Ultimately, the whole thing is supposed to be fun and evoke the nostalgia of my teenage years, when I was faced with the difficult choice of going for an Italian ice cream on a hot day or squeezing out the seventh sweat in an arcade. I'm sure the atmosphere of the 90s arcade skirmishes won't be 100% evoked, but a substitute and a momentary return to the past is enough for me, where the only duty was to take out the rubbish and do homework. The rest of the time was up to me to manage.
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Before I started, I looked around at other people's work. After making an initial selection, I set about building a template for the sides and then a cardboard model to test the ergonomics of the finished case.
.
.
I made all the connections with M5 screws and repair screws, threaded so that it can be easily disassembled if necessary.
.
.
.
.
- I made the case using 18 mm thick plywood.
- I ordered the set of buttons from AliExpress.
- The stickers were also ordered from a dealer in the middle state.
- I painted the whole thing with matt acrylic paints, white as a primer, followed by two coats each of RAL 1013 'beige' paint and black. At the very end a layer of matt varnish. This is my unlikeliest part of the work, but very important as it gives the final finish.
- The monitor I used was an old one, lying in the basement and getting dusty, the computer was given to me by a friend on the condition that we drank a couple of beers each while playing the slot machine. USB powered speakers mounted on the back of the case.
- The whole thing runs on "Batocera" software.
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Currently I have no way to push myself to the hardware and play quietly, it is occupied by the other household members. I spent about a month on the project, in the evenings for about 3 h/5 days a week. It was a lot of fun and also taught me a lot.
Greetings, Yonada resident
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