we have an arcade at work, ~20 candy cab on freeplay, how do I know when to change games ? well this should help me
The idea is to monitor start buttons being pressed, and to either push or pull the data over a wireless network. it has to be cheap, easy to add to cabs, and somewhat reliable.
so first a prototype, the pi zero is 10$. so far so good.
simple code
turned into a pi zero hat , pinout is Start , 5v ( to power the pi ) , Gnd . maybe ~5$ worth of part, that's fine, but making the pass-through adatper is time consuming, I don't want to have to make tons of them, plus what about a versus city ? I could do a jamma pass-through adapter instead , but it won't work for JVS games , oh the dilemma.
And it looks like we have a working proof of concept
Next is deciding how I want to store the data locally, push / pull, central data visualization, etc . I tried the googledoc spreadsheet api and it's utter garbage, slow as hell.
more to come...
![biggrin :D :D](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/bb/biggrin.png)
The idea is to monitor start buttons being pressed, and to either push or pull the data over a wireless network. it has to be cheap, easy to add to cabs, and somewhat reliable.
so first a prototype, the pi zero is 10$. so far so good.
![39966143222_bc6816742d_b.jpg](https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4678/39966143222_bc6816742d_b.jpg)
simple code
![39997426321_592eb746ef_b.jpg](https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4753/39997426321_592eb746ef_b.jpg)
turned into a pi zero hat , pinout is Start , 5v ( to power the pi ) , Gnd . maybe ~5$ worth of part, that's fine, but making the pass-through adatper is time consuming, I don't want to have to make tons of them, plus what about a versus city ? I could do a jamma pass-through adapter instead , but it won't work for JVS games , oh the dilemma.
![25127087017_8fcd4d45d4_b.jpg](https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4663/25127087017_8fcd4d45d4_b.jpg)
And it looks like we have a working proof of concept
![biggrin :D :D](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/bb/biggrin.png)
Next is deciding how I want to store the data locally, push / pull, central data visualization, etc . I tried the googledoc spreadsheet api and it's utter garbage, slow as hell.
more to come...