Building a retro joystick

I've been thinking about building a reto arcade machine for a while now but I keep getting stuck on the costs. Even doing it on the cheap will end up costing about 500 pounds which is a lot for a novelty. Last week I decided the best way to eat this elephant is one bite at a time and so bought a joystick, some buttons, a usb joystick interface and a cheap wooden box. Pair that with an excited 5 year old and you have the 2 hour project shown below.

Martin has been excidedly decorating the box with markers and stickers for the past few days

We use a 28mm hole drill to drill holes for the buttons and joystick. Obviously I did this although Martin did pretty much the rest of the project.

Wiring up the joystick and switches are simple as it's just a case of pushing on the spade connectors.

Now to test it out with a bit of R-Type

Here's a video of the button being assembled: assembly video

Here's a quick play-test video:

The joystick kit came from Arcade World UK, and cost 28 pounds.
The box cost about 4 pounds from Amazon.