RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet
Summary
RCade documents the end-to-end build of a community arcade cabinet at the Recurse Center, including hardware choices, a robust software stack, and a secure deployment pipeline using GitHub Actions with OpenID Connect. It highlights a community-driven approach, modular plugin inputs, and sandboxed execution to safely run community-created games on real hardware. The piece offers actionable insights into hardware-software collaboration, deployment automation, and open-source collaboration.