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:

1. Writing the game (rhythm machine game) in Python
2. Running the game on a Raspberry Pi  (Version 5)
3. Connecting the buttons and reading the buttons state on the RaspberryPi
4. Using the buttons in the game
5. Building the arcade box itself (+printing buttons)
1. We 3D printed buttons for Arcade Machine here 

 Get and see the code (Pyhton) here (on github)

 Here are some photos from the conference itself: 

 

Here are some past event projects from GeekCon I have made:

https://www.c2kb.com/geekcon/

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