How I Made My 3rd Bartop Arcade Machine, A Step by Step Process

This is my third arcade machine that I ever built and it is bigger and better than anything I previously built. This bar-top arcade is going to a friend as a thank you gift. I ordered a Pandora's Box 4S arcade kit that came with joystick buttons, a Pandora's Box 4s, power supply, speakers, speaker covers, amplifier, coin slot, jamma cable, and cabinet lock. The kit was about $150 dollars and was purchased on Aliexpress. The T-molding was about $15 from ebay. The monitor was given to me by my friend. The angle aluminum was $7 from Home Depot. The marquee acrylic panel, LED light strip, and back panel was sourced from my own stock of left over parts.

I'm most proud of the coin slots that are incorporated into the marquee panel. I got inspiration from the numerous cardboard coin sorter projects on Youtube and thought it would be a great idea to incorporate it into an arcade machine. The coin slots work using optical switches and a credit is registered when the optical switch is interrupted by the coin rolling through it. The chute will filter out coins that are of the wrong size so only quarters and larger will be registered as valid credits.

This video is a step by step process of how I built the arcade machine and is broken down into the following sections:
Introduction
Stage 1: Design
Stage 2: Drafting
Stage 3: Cutting
Stage 4: Mounting Blocks
Stage 5: Test Assembly
Stage 6: Mount Monitor
Stage 7: Make Holes
Stage 8: Routering
Stage 9: Painting
Stage 10: Assembly
Stage 11: T-Molding
Stage 12: Marquee Frame
Stage 13: Joy Buttons
Stage 14: Back Panel
Stage 15: Coin Slots
Stage 16: Wiring
Stage 17: Marquee Lighting
Final Stage: Play Testing

This project was started some time around June, it was finished around October after a long hiatus. The video took much longer to make as I had many things competing for my time but I'm happy that I was able to finish it. On to the next project!

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