Air Ball

[xerox4100]

  i come before you all to ask for help on how to make something like this?
I am still working on my arcade, and i thought if i could make the theme between this air ball game,  mame cab and virtual pin cab. it would make a awesome room. i cant decide on a theme yet.

[Rok]

Yikes...That would be one complicated project! I don't have much advice, but I would start looking into air cannons/compressor systems. Maybe even some sort of spring firing mechanism if you can come up with an auto reloader...

[javeryh]

You'd probably be better off paying the $8,675 those guys are charging!  I wouldn't even know where to begin.

[Pinball Wizard]

Ever dealt with spud guns/pneumatic cannons? Basically the same principle but lower pressure. I can probably sketch something up to plan it out for you if you want.

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

And once you've got the physical side of it down you'd want to be thinking about the software that's going to drive it. Many several routes you could go there... A dedicated hardware approach like an arduino or maybe a PC tucked away with a bunch of relay/sensors coming in over some kind usb adaptor.

Go the PC route and mount an old LCD projector under the guns. Have the targets pop up in random patterns, and a color/target scheme projected onto them. Remove the divide between the two players, and let them each target different markers/colors on the targets for points.

[xerox4100]

Ever dealt with spud guns/pneumatic cannons? Basically the same principle but lower pressure. I can probably sketch something up to plan it out for you if you want.

 

I would love to have something to go off of for a template.

on a spud gun it has a closed system in which the the air only has one place to go, how dose the ball reload into the system, i figure it would be something like the ski balls project works by just funneling it into grove with gravity the ball's falls into a littel chamber and that chamber has a air compresser in it? i could see the pump being on the bottom and the ball falling on top of it, sealing it, when the pump discharges it just shoots up and follows the line out of the gun? and i doubt they use very much psi the balls barley make it out of the gun, (I'm going to change that) maby have bowling pins down at the end who knows,

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

Maybe it would be easier to not use an air cannon, and instead use some kind of hammer. You don't need super high velocity, since you're only firing a few feet. Have a motor on a cam charge back a spring and strike the ball as it rests in the back of the cannon.. Either that or something almost like a speaker driver, where a magnetic pulse drives a hammer forward an inch or two at high velocity.

[BurgerKingDiamond]

it doesn't look very fun to play

[mgb]

The best way to figure out how to make one of those is to study how they are built.
look up manuals from the manufacturers.
 that particular game there is made by Baytek. You can go on their website and download the manuals. That particular game doesnt show the manual but they have multiple ones where they are just themed differently but are made the same.
You will need to setup a free account.

https://www.baytekgames.com/parts/

[xerox4100]

The best way to figure out how to make one of those is to study how they are built.
look up manuals from the manufacturers.
 that particular game there is made by Baytek. You can go on their website and download the manuals. That particular game doesnt show the manual but they have multiple ones where they are just themed differently but are made the same.
You will need to setup a free account.

https://www.baytekgames.com/parts/

That was exactly what i was looking for. thank you very much MGB. if you guys every played one of these there just fun little games, I was thinking about my theme and that it is going to be castlevania  while looking into this i found that there was also a arcade out there all ready that was like house of the dead but castlevania! 

I think what im going to do with this is make it bigger add some more air presser giving it more range make it more like a pinball type of game/ wac a mole , adding in the monsters on some sort of plexiglass.

[mgb]

It sounds like it could be a fun project. As far as some info goes on the pneumatic stuff, like someone else said, investigate pneumatic potato guns. I built a pneumatic potato gun a few years ago and I was surprised at how much info there is and how many product there are