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  • PIK3A: The Raspberry Pi 3 IKEA Retro Gaming Table

    Gaming is the perfect way to help newcomers to the Raspberry Pi to connect it with a recognisable lifestyle technology. It's the perfect stepping stone to bring people eye-to-eye with the Raspberry Pi; if it can play all those awesome, classic arcade…

  • MAME Settings on PIK3A Gaming Table

    We've been asked about how to adjust some of the settings in the MAME arcade emulator, and a video was quicker (and more useful, hopefully) than writing it all out
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  • Retro Gaming Volume 1 - eBook

    Introducing the Retro Gaming Volume 1 It might seem odd to play retro games. After all, do people carry around old Nokia brick cellphones instead of modern smartphones packed with features? Are there die-hards out there who exclusively use the first…

  • PIK3A Deluxe - Four Player Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming Table

    As you know, the Raspberry Pi is turning five . Five! Incredible, I know. And as part of our celebrations, it felt like an opportune moment to give just a small token of appreciation back to the Raspberry Pi Foundation from everyone at the element14 Community…

  • Cheapest Raspberry Pi Arcade Controls Encoder EVER!

    Okay, long story short, I needed an Arduino board, and the only one I had to hand was buried inside my double-awesome PIK3A Raspberry Pi 3 Retro Gaming Table . I could rob it from the table, but then how was I supposed to loaf around all evening playing…

  • Retro Gaming Round Up!

    Gaming continues to be a massive market with global appeal. While consoles like the Xbox One and Playstation 4 battle it out for supremacy, there is a movement that has been building for a while now- a movement that is seeing some of the old school classics…

  • Your Retro Gaming Table Roundup

    If you've been on the internets lately, you might have noticed that our Raspberry Pi 3-powered retro gaming table has become... quite popular. And that got me to thinking about all the other PIK3A table builds that you guys have put together, many of…

  • Visit the CPC Team at Maker Faire UK, April 23-24

    So, is anyone near the Toon next weekend? Our techno-cousins from CPC are heading up to Newcastle to host a stand at the country's biggest Maker Faire, and they want to meet as many Community members as possible! It's shaping up to be a pretty splendid…

  • PIK3A Retro Gaming Table Mk II

    I'm not a fan of Ikea. In fact, it's a place I usually try to avoid, until I discovered that you can hack it's ultra-cheap tables into retro video game systems! You know the one I mean: PIK3A: The Raspberry Pi 3 IKEA Retro Gaming Table. You guys have…