I've found plenty of well documented cabinet builds online, but from my own experience at arcade machines, most of them are not quite tall enough for me. I often end up bowing down and having the marquee too close to my forehead. So I decided to start testing out different heights for the display. Luckily, IKEA sells near-perfect prototyping hardware for the job. The Individually adjustable vertical rig. Or IVAR, as they call it.

I use plenty of those for storage anyway, it is possible to mount horizontal boards roughly every 4 cm and I figured that a height of ca. 110 cm for the display and about 100 cm for the control Panel are reasonable measurements. Next stop: layout of the control panel!