--- title: RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet —... description: The RCade is a custom arcade cabinet built for the Recurse Center community, featuring a real 1980s CRT running at 320x240, a custom 24-bit USB display... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rcade-building-a-community-arcade-cabinet-frankchiarulli-com-e5vwd2xci twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet — frankchiarulli.com | daily.dev og:description: The RCade is a custom arcade cabinet built for the Recurse Center community, featuring a real 1980s CRT running at 320x240, a custom 24-bit USB display... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rcade-building-a-community-arcade-cabinet-frankchiarulli-com-e5vwd2xci og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/E5vWd2XcI.png og:image:alt: RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet — frankchiarulli.com og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet — frankchiarulli.com **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 16 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The RCade is a custom arcade cabinet built for the Recurse Center community, featuring a real 1980s CRT running at 320x240, a custom 24-bit USB display adapter, RP2040-based input controllers with spinners, and a GitHub-based deployment pipeline. The hardware journey involved tracing CRT pinouts with an oscilloscope, configuring precise 15kHz timing via a vga666 adapter on a Raspberry Pi, and eventually commissioning a custom STM32H750-based display adapter for full 24-bit color. On the software side, `npm create rcade@latest` scaffolds a game project with templates (vanilla JS, TypeScript, p5.js, Rust/WASM), auto-generates a GitHub Actions workflow using OIDC passwordless authentication, and deploys to the cabinet via webhook. Games run in sandboxed iframes with strict CSP, and a plugin system using postMessage channels provides controlled access to arcade inputs. There are now 44+ community-made games, and remote Recursers can build and test locally with `npx rcade@latest play`. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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