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Minwah:
Has anyone here made a scratch built pinball machine? As in a real one with flippers and balls, not a virtual one.

I've seen a few on youtube and so on, just wondered if anyone has experience with this. I think it would be a cool project, although I should talk myself out of it as I'm sure it is a LOT of work...

I quite like the idea of building quite a simple one which uses solenoids for flippers/bumpers etc., but not much else in terms of electronics. Maybe a circuit to keep and display score.

spoot:
Working on one........but it's alot of work and expensive.  Damn hobbies.   :(

Minwah:

--- Quote from: spoot on August 28, 2013, 10:21:48 am ---Working on one........but it's alot of work and expensive.  Damn hobbies.   :(

--- End quote ---

Cool, how far have you got?

spoot:
Slowly buying up parts and have a chunk of the code written up.  Have many layouts drawn up on notepads and still designing modes and such.  Theme is aliens.....with the modes/targets/etc going along with the first two movies. Destroy eggs, aliens, queens, etc. Contemplating getting a 3d printer to make some "toys" like the cargo loader.....so, it will take me forever and a day.

Looking at using a beaglebone and the pinproc boards to drive the hardware itself.

Not getting as far as I'd like as I'm still messing around with my Vpin machine and writing a pinball FE among other crazy things.   :D

TopJimmyCooks:
That is a stout project to take on.  I would be worried about playfield layout design.  There are so many, designed by a select group of pros, that just aren't that great.  I'd be scared to commit to a pf and decide later that I don't really like it or there are mistakes.  Of course, if you build your own you can make a Mark II of your own.

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