HOPE 26 (2026): "Building a Community Arcade Cabinet" (Download)
Frank Chiarulli (KD2UIW)
Rose Hall
Sophie Downward
Friday 1200 Grand Ballroom: The RCade is a custom arcade cabinet built at the Recurse Center that runs games made by the community. It has a real CRT, a custom graphics card, spinner controllers, and a deploy pipeline where anyone can ship a game just by pushing to GitHub. It now has over 90 games. Frank Chiarulli will talk about reviving the hardware and building the deployment system, Rose Hall will cover the game engine and plugin sandbox, and Sophie Downward will walk through building a custom display adapter from scratch. They'll close out by showing off some of the games.