Pi Arcade Joystick Interfacing

I’m trying to get the entire department working on my Raspberry Pi powered gaming table. After sterling work by Peter on the cabinet, today it was the turn of James to lend a hand with the button and joystick interfacing. The kit that I’ve bought comes with a USB to button interface (you can see it at the bottom left of the above picture). all we had to do was wire the right buttons and switches to the pins on the interface, connect it to the Raspberry Pi and then remap the controls in the software to use the right switches. And the amazing thing is that we did just that.

By the end of the day we had an arcade game running and the only problem left to solve is getting the sound output to work. At the moment the Pi is putting the sound down the HDMI cable. We need to change this over to the 3.5mm jack socket and then I can get some amplified speakers connected.  At this rate it should be finished well before Christmas….

Comments

[Wes]

Was just woundering what the two buttons ether side of player one and two did on the edge of the table?

[Rob]

Hi. There are four buttons down the side. Coin insert, single player, two player and flip (which changes the display from landscape to portrait).

Really must get the glass top and finish this project off......

[wes]

Thanks, was woundering, what they where for, thought it might have been coin, did not even think of flipping the dispaly.