Raspberry Pi Arcade deck 

Every fan says that of every channel. It's not going to happen.

@@bzuidgeest It's happened to a lot of channels. Which is amazing when you look at some of the shit channels that have 10+M subscribers. I've followed a heap of RU-vidrs who've risen from 2 or 3 thousand subs to over 500K+. It can happen.

@@stoojinator there is a reason those shit channels have so many subscribers, and it has nothing to do with quality. Most, not ask of them are run by professional companies and sell stuff and or are very dumb. No brain required sensational. This channel is none of those things and that is good. But he is no rmc has no professional team behind him. Again that's not bad. But those other channels don't grow because of the algorithm, they grow because they are businesses not hobbies. By hey there is always the exception that proves the rule. I suggest you pray for it. But i suspect that when you look back in a few years you will be disappointed.

Agreed. Tho Rees got luckily recently which was good to see.

I had to google that - but I like!

He's way to stubborn to learn :p

yeah - good question :( Luckily I had a spare from a previous project.

Pretty confident it’s the machine

Nope. Those GPIO switches are a dog. When we made our machine, we started with them, and they sucked. Moved to the USB adaptor and BANG! Just like it should be.

@@stoojinator good to know. Did you just use the generic usb boards you can find everywhere?

@@MrLurchsThings I'll have a look back through my emails and see if I can find where we got them from. But I'm pretty sure they were the generic controllers. They were pretty cheap I do remember that much! I think I might have got them from Element 3. I was buying a bit of Raspberry Pi stuff from them at one stage.

I'm pretty sure they're available on Aliexpress/etc

waiting parts :(

Agreed. But for me its generally worth it for a) convenience, and b) having a brick-and-mortar store to go back to. I'm pretty much on a first name basis with my local store :D

It seems Pandoras got for ~$200-250AU. This was $100AU

@@MrLurchsThings the box is cheaper. But You still have to add the pi , SD card and likely some other things. You might have had them, but you audience may have to buy it all. So for a proper comparison the price of your route will get higher. And that is not even including upgrades, the Pandora would not need. The Pandora is play ready out of the box.

I’ve got some upgrade plans for it already. Maybe after than I’ll drop a pandora board in it for the sake of checking it out.

@@MrLurchsThings yes you said so at the end of the video (upgrades). I mentioned it because of you are going to compare build cost, you really should take into account all components added, not just the price of the box itself.

@@bzuidgeest fine then. Deck: $99, Pi4: (for me free, but) currently $67AU from Core Electronics, SD Card: $20 (depending where you buy it and how big you want/need). Total: $186AU.