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100 point pockets on a model H skeeball machine

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RandyT:


--- Quote from: mgb on May 17, 2011, 07:54:09 pm ---I know on the older skeeballs I have worked on, if you activate a single switch, it is worth ten points. So with that, if the ball goes in the 50 point hole, it hits all 5 switches going down totaling 50 points. The point switches for the 100 point shoots are worth 50 points, and then the ball goes through the others adding up to 100 points.
What if you paralelled you 100 point switches to the other 5 switches so that once the ball hits the 100 point switch, it goes to 50 points and then as the ball goes through the other switches adding up to 100.

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I think that is how it's supposed to work with those machines where the "bonus" (50pts) is present.  But that link above supposedly shows the schematics for the machine in question, and I didn't see anything which looked like a 50 point or "bonus" connection.  But please have a look.  I could have missed it, so I'd be interested to see where it is, if I did.

It would be nice if one of these drive-by skeeball posters stuck around long enough to let us know the outcomes of the suggestions we give.  I'm still wondering what happened on the last one :)

mgb:

Oh yeah,
I looked at the schematic and I see what you're saying. My idea wouldn't work because paralelling across the switches would only be 10 points.
I can't find any bonus input either.  :dunno

zak1234:

Would simply adding a 5-switch ramp and hooking them up in parallel with the other switches work? Because that was one of the ideas I was thinking of working with, but I could theoretically use a launchpad or adruino to ground p10-2 5 times.

mgb:

yeah but all 10 switches would have to hit seperately because everytime a switch hits, it adds 10 points.

Necro:

The arduino idea is a pretty cool one.  You could make the game have different variations, bonuses, etc.  Someone making their own skeeball on here did that with some software he wrote - but with an arduino it could be as easy as a single button to cycle through modes then have the backglass display different codes.

I really, REALLY like that idea.

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