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Picade Plasma Kit - Illuminated Arcade Buttons 10-button kit Reviews

4.9 Rating 13 Reviews
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Brian McBarron
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These buttons look very nice, but they are a real pain to get hooked up, and there's no integration with RetroPie (For example, it'd be awesome if the coin button flashed yellow when you're on an enter-coin screen, and if the non-functional buttons in a game turned off). One of the connecting wires in my kit was misconfigured, which prevented the Picade from turning on at all. Diagnosing that was a challenge, but the helpful support team at Pimoroni helped me fix the issue myself (they offered to ship a replacement wire, but I preferred to fix it).
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Posted 4 years ago
Bought as a Christmas present for my partner who’s an avid fan of the Picade. I’m sure he will be very happy with his new shiny buttons!
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Posted 5 years ago
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Posted 5 years ago
Marcos García
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I'm using this to build a tiny batak machine. You must follow standar installation instructions, then disable the plasma deamon and everything will be ready to manage Plasma using python library. It would be nice if some kind of led fixation is designed, I know, that means to modift the plastic button mold, but that's requierd if no standar faston connector is used.
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Posted 6 years ago
David Collinson
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Plasma buttons are great. Easy to configure. Only downside is 10 buttons plus 10inch screen plus official pi power is not enough juice resulting in some hdmi resets. Resolved by turning down brightness or getting a 3amp power supply
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Posted 6 years ago