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Space Base - A homebrew ICB/ZP
AlienInferno:
Wow! Been a while since I logged into the BYOAC forums and I find this. Holy :censored: ! Good work guys. Now finish this so I can add yet another build to my list of things wanted.
sushy18:
Hi,
amazing job !!!
there is some news about this project ?
is it possible to have/buy some cnc plan?
I'm new in this forum i can't PM the author.
if he/you read me, i'will be glad to read you.
best regards
PL1:
Welcome aboard, Shushy18. ;D
Your PMs should be working now. :cheers:
Scott
XXVII:
Hey Le Chuck, IDS, and eds1275,
We're years late to the party, but a gaggle of us on Pinside have only recently discovered and been inspired by your incredible project and we would love to give a go at building our own based off your pioneering work. You mentioned in the first post of this thread that you were planning to open source the whole thing. Will that still happen?
Some of us have a vague idea of how to move forward, but we're stuck on various issues. For example, how did you guys make the telescoping rod? Did it have to be custom fabricated or were there some off-the-shelf components that you were able to modify into it?
Would love to hear your insight. Thanks, and great work!
Le Chuck:
Hey everyone, I'm glad to see this still has some interest. It certainly isn't dead but it has been moving slowly for the last year or so. A lot of life changes for several team members that had to be sorted out before work could resume, myself included!
All that said, I will be getting back into this shortly. I'll be fabbing up a second playfield (the first is with IDS) and I'll do a step by step build up on that. I can't put a deadline on anything past that but I'll be starting the playfield in August as soon as I finish the panel I'm building for my boys.
Once complete everything will go open source, the reason we aren't do releases as we go is because things are still in flux and I personally don't want to put out bad poop, have someone spend money, get ahead of me only to find out it doesn't work as advertised. Plans, parts lists, music, code, the works.
As it stands now the only truly custom fabricated bits are on the ball the return (which is simple) and the circuit boards (which is supposedly simple for those in the know but might as well be rocket surgery for me). Everything else is off-the-shelf modded or tooled.
Regular updates to recommence soon. Thanks!