A Few Words About all of this
What about...
In the prestigious halfred lab facilities we build, among other things, arcade machines that should be beautiful to look at and joyful to play with, using the (almost) most advanced technologies to recreate the most primordial.
A love letter to our memories.
A device whose shape followed its function, reduced to the necessary, but also providing a terrific appearance when not in use.
We aspire to create an object with a musical instrument-like feel, that is at once both functional and elegant, capable of reaching our memories and fulfill our nostalgia. Something that we love building and having around our home or office.
What's Inside
Main Board
There are several options depending on the model and the idea behind it, but the H series are mainly powered by Raspberry Pi and/or Pandora’s Box.
Joystick & Buttons
When you are looking for the best hardware for controllers generally the two leading brands are Sanwa and Seimitsu. We generally lean toward Sanwa.
Everything else
Anker or Rawpower power supplies and batteries.
8Bitdo controllers
Pimoroni displays (10″ 4:3)
Speakers: Creative or Logi
Customizations
Our creations are handmade and each piece is different from the previous one, the possibilities for customization are almost unlimited, from the most ordinary colors of buttons and knobs, to hardware, from the magical Raspberry Pi to the most powerful computers on the market, from the original SNES to cathode ray tubes, from creative’s computer speakers to smart speakers…
Take a look at the Blog section which hopefully we will keep somewhat updated…
Tales from the lab
We usually work on about
forty six & 2 projects
at the same time; but here we try to post only the game-centric ones…