GeekCon 2025 - Building an Arcade Machine (rhythm machine)
GeekCon is by far the best conference I have ever participated in. If you are not that familiar about GeekCon , so shortly, once every year, around September we gather from all around Israel and outside of it, a bunch of heavy geeks, makers, developers, scientists and crazy technology savvy people to build crazy projects, non profit for a full weekend. Learn more . Some examples from this year 2025, a robotic Lama that follows you and spit on you, a huge keyboard and a missile defense system that throws chairs on missiles, and more ... This year, I went to GeekCon with my son and from his choosing we have decided to build an arcade machine, with a rhythm game. You need to press the buttons by the rhythm The spec was like this: Writing the game (rhythm machine game) in Python Running the game on a Raspberry Pi (Version 5) Connecting the buttons and reading the buttons state on the RaspberryPi Using the buttons in the game Building the arcade box itself (+printing butto...