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ds015882:
Cage turned out awesome!!!....I might need to scrap mine and do what you did....just looks so sharp....

I scored two sets of rings with 100 holes in some real wood balls from a local guy....so going to update mine now with the 100 rings but was trying to figure how the balls would be returned....I like your idea on how you are doing it....I was playing around with some half pipe tubing over the weekend I think that will work...put i like the simplicity of yours.....never thought about mounting the cherry switches on the back side of the ramp with the holes...

I'm having a friend that codes take a look at your code....would like to add a game over after the 9th ball....and change the sounds..

Keep up the good work

Entropy42:
Yeah, I actually used half a piece of 4" PVC for the 100 ball return on my second Skeeball machine.  In hindsight though, I think my first approach (just the big board pictured here) is the easiest to implement.  In either case you end up having to cut the back of the ball tray with a jigsaw.  If you go with the big board, I'd recommend switching the switches over to the fall-through way I have them now.  I don't know how long my software will continue to support the hit-every-switch approach, and I know ThatPurpleStuff's code already doesn't support it.

Feel free to do whatever you want to the code.  The sounds I have are not my favorite either, just something I threw in there for feedback.  If you find something better I would be interested to hear them.  If you have any good ideas for sound or features, please just feel free to let me know, if I have time I'll just implement them myself.  The next version will also make it much more obvious when a game is over.

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