A member got their hands on an original 1980s Sega Outrun arcade cabinet that was electrically non-functional but mechanically complete. He put the call out to turn it into something cool, so it became a group project to retromod the original controls to work with a modern gaming PC and allow players to use it as a modern racing sim. The original pedals, shifter, and steering wheel were spliced with modern electronics which is all fed into some Arduino Pro Micros to convert the analog inputs into digital USB signals, which then go into a gaming PC embedded in the cabinet. A new fascia was designed and laser-cut out of wood and combined with a welded steel frame it allowed a new LCD monitor to fit where the CRT was. A custom button-box was fabricated to fill in the missing buttons required for modern racing games, and at this point it's now fully functional and just needs some tidying up.
