{"id":15497,"date":"2016-09-16T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15497"},"modified":"2016-09-16T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:01:04","slug":"raspberry-pi-zero-used-for-the-worlds-smallest-mame-arcade-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15497","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi Zero used for the world&#8217;s smallest MAME Arcade Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn-learn.adafruit.com\/assets\/assets\/000\/035\/716\/medium800\/gaming_pi-inside.jpg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/worlds-smallest-mame-arcade-cabinet\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">Over at Adafruit<\/a>, Philip Burgess has <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/worlds-smallest-mame-arcade-cabinet\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">blogged<\/a> about a marvellous little project involving a Raspberry Pi Zero. And when I say &#8220;little&#8221;, I\u00a0<em>mean<\/em> &#8220;little&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve used the Zero, together with a 0.96&#8243; OLED display, an amplifier, some tiny speakers and some buttons to create the world&#8217;s smallest arcade cabinet. They&#8217;ve then installed Mame on the Zero&#8217;s SD card, wired it all together and voila! You can see in the picture above and the video below that it is fully working. Just astounding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/worlds-smallest-mame-arcade-cabinet\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">Read about the project (which is\u00a0<em>not<\/em> a step-by-step guide, they are keen to point out) over at Adafruit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/5JLgPiEYQ6V\/embed\/simple\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.vine.co\/static\/scripts\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Adafruit, Philip Burgess has blogged about a marvellous little project involving a Raspberry Pi Zero. And when I say &#8220;little&#8221;, I\u00a0mean &#8220;little&#8221;! 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