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Build your own Pinball Machine
fredster:
I've been looking for sites on how to build your own Pinball.
With all the brains on this site I'm sure somebody could come up with some great ideas.
I'm not talking about virtural pinball machines, I'm saying the next level from mame - a real pinball machine.
Anybody have any good links to doing just that? Some of the ones I was trying to find are dead.
old school gamer:
Now thats something Id like to see! I own a pinball machine,and before I got it I had never owned one before. I have learned alot of stuff about pinball machines since owning this one. The one thing I do know is that there is about a mile of wiring under the playfield,over 50 fuses,tons of bulbs,etc. Like you said though. with all the brains on this site (me not being one of them) Im sure somebody could do it.
aristotle:
Might be hard to customize your own machine considering pinball machines require PCBs.
itismejs:
--- Quote from: aristotle on August 18, 2004, 02:24:03 pm ---Might be hard to customize your own machine considering pinball machines require PCBs.
--- End quote ---
You can get an old pinball machine that has EVERYTHING in. (like way too many flippers,buttons,whatever.) Then all ya have to do is change all the art and move parts around and just cut off extra parts. It would like a lot of time but it sounds like fun.
mp2526:
Not much out there.
http://www.phobe.com/pinfools/index.html
http://www.pinball4you.ch/okaegi/pro_6809.html
http://www.pinball.org/silver/v2n4/pinit.htm (Article about the pin-it-yourself project...now defunct)
there are a few more I can't remember any links at the moment
One of my many projects (don't know when I'll get to it) is to build my own. I have a lot of pin parts in my junk collection and I plan on using a pic microcontroller to run as the brains.
I actually just got an old Gameplan Foxy Lady cocktail pin that if I can't bring back to life, I plan to "emulate" the functionality using a pic.
I'll post pics and info on my site when I get around to it.
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