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There was some discussion on IRC recently about building an arcade/MAME cabinet for the space so lets see just how much interest there is out there.

Inexpensive PC running Linux with a console emulator <-- found several emulators that can be installed, just need a PC
Create a wooden box to hold everything, perhaps have users decorate it with stickers, artwork, etc <-- Noisebridge art project?
Cheap LCD <-- or free even, thanks Miloh!
modify a USB joypad/stick to be more arcade like <-- gamepad donated, planning on mapping buttons/joystick to keys on spare keyboard
Coin slot for donations
Need somewhere to put it...
laptop station for members to hook up their laptops to the joystick/monitor

~~LCD~~
~~controller~~
~~keyboard~~
trackball for additional game control
PC <-- preferably later model with a graphics card that supports OpenGL 1.4 at minimum, see XBMC requirements

Planning on using Xbox Media Centre on top of Ubuntu http://xbmc.org/home/

found an arcade game browser plugin that looked nice: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=48983

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